The landscape for high-end photographers changed dramatically this week, with several key new product introductions. Sony, the newly-crowned number two digital camera manufacturer (sorry, Nikon), got in the pro-camera game with the innovative Sony a9, while Fujifilm continued to fill in the ecosystem for its medium-format GFX-50 camera with two new lenses that should appeal […]
While many photographers who prefer black-and-white images will convert their color originals in Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, if you shoot RAW (and you SHOULD shoot RAW) you may want to do it in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This is especially true if you’re doing portrait or other kinds of photography under consistent lighting conditions. One of […]
If you’re printing black & white photos before calibrating your monitor, you’re throwing money away. By Mason Resnick Are you playing monitor roulette? That’s the game where you rely on your monitor to determine whether the photo you’re working on will look as nice in print as it does on your screen. And then, you […]
Wanna bring back the 60s? Here’s a digital reboot of a classic darkroom effect that’s easy to master using Adobe Photoshop Elements “Oooh, you know how to solarize?” In the early 70s, my friends were impressed that not only had I mastered solarization—the special black-and-white photography effect that transforms photos into wild, other-worldly images by […]