This week, I have a tasty little speed edit for you all – it’s the speedy version of the full tutorial which will be available in the Lightroom Course and to Learning Community members, once the website opens. I wanted to create an image and a tutorial that only used Lightroom, as I know many […]
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This tutorial sees us using Lightroom only to take a pretty even, simple photo of Journey, and turning it into something special. You will also find this tutorial in the Lightroom Course, but it’s such a good one I wanted to share it in the bonus tutorials as well. We go through a thorough workflow
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In November, I hosted a challenge on my Instagram, for people to take a selection of images in a small area. I had about 98 submissions, and in this video I go through feedback for most of them. I find seeing feedback about other people’s images super helpful, as I can apply this to my
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Sometimes when we’re taking photos of our pets, something goes wrong. Maybe they move, or we move, or maybe we’re only human and we just muck up the composition a little bit! Nothing major, but suddenly the dog’s ear is too close to the edge of the frame, or their feet are squashed in at
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Do you believe in fate? That everything happens for a reason, at the right time, in the right place? Exactly as it’s meant to be? I don’t. As a general rule of thumb. I look for open doors and possibilities, and in almost every way, Journey was a perfect combination of meant to be, and
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Last month I announced the November Challenge, which challenged you to take a variety of photos in a small area, edit them and upload them to instagram. I was really impressed by all the different styles, the variety of photos submitted, and the creativity that was shown. I hope it allowed you all to stretch
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Navigation This “How To” was taken from the Lightroom course, so if you’ve already seen it there, then keep your eyes out for future tutorials on this subject (pun intended) or drop a question in the comments below, or in the member’s Facebook group! How to Edit Eyes Eyes are the window to the soul
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This is one of my favourite types of photos. A close-up portrait with gorgeous backlight, and of course my favourite perfect model. Journey is a really difficult one to get the white balance correct with, especially in these conditions as not only is he a weird colour, but there were oranges, yellows and greens bouncing
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I often get people on Instagram curious or confused as to why I take some of my images quite dark in camera, but the reason is quite simple: I expose for the highlights! Now, that might sound like fancy photographer talk to some of you, but no fear, it’s not too complicated! Our images are
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