Dodge and Burn using Lightroom Masks
It occurred to me while watching a video by Nick Page on Photoshop’s Luminosity masks that Lightroom Classic can now do something similar with luminance range masks. It’s not quite the same and won’t be as powerful, but it saves jumping to Photoshop and creating a 100MB tiff file. You could always dodge and burn…
Careful Importing Video from Sony Cameras
I made one of the big mistakes of photography last night. I formatted my SD card before checking that everything had been imported correctly. I’m still not 100% sure how this happened but none of the videos I recorded were imported. Most of the time I don’t bother formatting the card immediately because there’s plenty…
The Limits of Lightroom’s Smart Previews
I just stretched the limits of Lightroom’s Smart Previews this morning. After editing the following image I decided to see what it looked like as a smart preview. I pushed the image quite a bit, exposing the colour in the sky as the sun set behind me in Lanzarote a few days ago. The original…