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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 the image editor Affinity Photo by Serif. It is a budget friendly but powerful alternative to Photoshop by Adobe. Let me tell you why Affinity is currently my favorite…
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Today I’d like to talk about a fantastic piece of software I discovered recently. The program is called set.a.light 3D and has been developed by elixxier Software, a company based in Stuttgart, Germany. What the software basically does is it let’s you simulate an entire photo studio with models, lights, cameras, different requisites etc. You can even take virtual photos and create lighting diagrams of your setup. This sounds to me like the ideal tool to prepare yourself for a studio shooting.
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