Are expensive Lee ND Grads worth the money? I decided to test this for my self and set up an experiment - a Lee ND Grads vs post production ND Grads. Which is better and do we always need to get it right in the camera? During a recent photography shoot on Rannoch Moor I [...]
Ok, here is a question. colour or black and white? This has got us thinking about images and with the software at out fingertips these days the end result can be rather different from the original image out of the camera. Here we take a look at an image of the stunning Kim. A portrait [...]
Using the Gradient Tool in Lightroom There has been a gradient tool in Lightroom for several years now and it may possibly be one of the most useful, but one of the most under used tools within Lightroom. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to make more use of the gradient [...]
This clip shows my Glen Etive time-lapse. This was the time-lapse that was shot using my GoPro camera when I was out for a day's photography on Sunday 1 February 2015. I was looking for a spot where I could set up the GoPro and know that it wouldn't be seen, and more importantly stolen, because it [...]
There is always debate about the advantage of shooting in RAW rather than shooting in JPEG. Here is my opinion and contribution to the debate. The modern digital cameras of today have more computing power built in to them than full sized desktop computers had in the early nineties. So what? Well, when you shoot a photograph in [...]
