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Recently Skylum offered me to take a look at the pre-release version of its HDR Software, Aurora HDR 2019. Since Aurora HDR 2018 is one of the tools I use to create my HDR photographs I gladly took this opportunity. After having developed a few photos with it I am now ready to share my experience with you in this Aurora HDR 2019 review.
The HDR technique is very useful to overcome the limitations in dynamic range of digital cameras. Scenes like sunsets or sunrises as well as night photography with artificial light sources in cities are a huge challenge to today’s cameras and HDR is one way to deal with this challenge. But on the other hand HDR has also been subject to a lot of criticism because the results can be unrealistic and a lot of people tend to exaggerate the HDR effect, making the photograph look more like a painting than a photograph. This is where Exposure Fusion enters the game. In this post I will introduce you to the concept of Exposure Fusion and give you an insight on how I use this technique to create some of my photos.
In this post I’d like to talk about the post processing tools I use to create my night shots. Post processing is one of the reasons I’m into digital photography and the tools available today are really great for getting the job done. Not only do those tools allow to polish an already great photo but they also offer countless options to create your unique style.
Today I’d like to talk about photo management. Every active photographer sooner or later has to deal with an ever increasing amount of photos. In case of digital photography this means thousands of photos on your hard disk up to the point where finding one specific photo can become almost impossible. This is where photo management software comes into play. Over in the Adobe world the solution is Lightroom which manages everything from tagging your photos to RAW development. But what if you, like me, do not like Adobe’s business model and are looking for a high quality alternative? Is photo management without Adobe software even possible? In this post I will talk about two programs that I have personally used and that I can recommend. These are XnViewMP (freeware) and IMatch (commercial). So let’s get started.
Today I’d like to talk about rules in photography. Nowadays rules are everywhere, wheather in traffic, at work, in school, no matter where you go, there is always a rule that needs following. On reason why I’ve started taking photos is because I needed to compensate for all those rules that I need to follow in my everyday life. You know, do something creative and all that… But guess what, photography has rules too!
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I’m wondering why the photo industry is so obsessed about Photoshop and Lightroom. Is Adobe Photoshop the way to go? No matter where you look, magazines, websites, blogs, when it comes to image editing everybody talks almost exclusively about Photoshop and Lightroom. For example in photo magazines you only find instructions about doing image editing with Photoshop/ Lightroom as if there was no alternative. Is there really no alternative to Adobe products? Or has the photography industry just become so addicted to Adobe that they cannot see alternatives, even if they are just as powerful or even better?