Hynek on Photography

My endless journey to photography mastery plus pictures I've found worthwhile.
 

Lightroom 3

I always loved Lightroom for its incredible focus on my workflow. It's simply a program done just for me, the photographer. It might not be as professional as Capture One, but for an lame amateur like me it's great. ;)

Anyhow, the update to Lightroom 3 just blew my mind. I especially dig lens profiles (no Photoshop anymore for fixing lines!), noise reduction (no NoiseNinja turnarounds anymore!) and the incredible export collections which even shows comments from flickr photos.

Chapeau Adobe! I'm going to buy the update as soon as my trial expires. ;)

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Posted June 10, 2010
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Anticipation

There's really a lot buzz going on. :) I have to admit that
I'm pretty curious too.

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Posted March 24, 2010
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Photoshop: The First Demo

via tv.adobe.com

Pretty impressive!

...and thus started a revolution.

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Posted March 16, 2010
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Adobe Got My Soul

So it really happened. A few days of Lightroom and I can't imagine to go back.

It's so streamlined, fast, convenient... *sigh*

Welcome to the mainstream. :-/

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Posted March 5, 2010
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Hooray for Editing

While doing my Week of The Gimp, I decided to look at my older pictures, particularly at some I liked from Indonesia.

I did some very limited editing on this one:

An Outlook on the Three Gilis The result can be seen here: Power of Basic Editing

I suggest to compare them big on black: old vs. new

All I did was a curves adjustment, saturation and lightening up some parts of the picture (particularly the palms in the lower right), adding contrast and removing brightness from the sky.

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Posted March 2, 2010
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Commencing the Week of The Gimp

I always wanted to learn graphic editing. Even though I'm unblessed by talent artwise, I still like the idea of picture manipulation

As I've shown in this set, I have some basics. I also know about curves and primitive cloning. But especially curves are something I do rather in Capture NX 2 which isn't a graphic editor but a RAW converter with some editing facilities (which are enough most of the time, that's the main reason I didn't learn enough doing real editing yet).

But I want more. I want more control over my pictures, more possibilities.

I agree that Photoshop is standard but I didn't find a viable way to obtain it w/o paying 1,000 € so far. Thus I'm going for The Gimp for now. With the additional bonus that it runs also on Linux. I'm sure, the important stuff will be easily transferable once I'll have PS.

So this week I will work through a Gimp book, ideally cover-to-cover.

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Posted March 1, 2010
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