Lens Correction and Manhattan Skyline

Since I got the request to do my same lens correction test for a panorama, but with a cityscape, I asked Mark Schaffer of Knowsphotos if he had a few RAW files I could process.  He’s a far more traveled and accomplished landscape photographer.  You should check out his site, he posts images rather regularly. [...]

Lens Correction and Panos?

After looking into what lens correction added (or didn’t add) to my portraits, I wondered if the lens correction being applied to each individual image before stitching the panorama would help.  One would think that the lens correction would straighten out the individual images and then the final panorama won’t have that bent bowtie effect.  [...]

Lens Correction for Portraits?

This feature was one of my most anticipated of the Lightroom 3 and Adobe CS5 before they came out. I don’t have any fisheye lenses and generally don’t have anything that looks distorted but that little perfectionist in me wanted my images to be correct. Now that I’ve used it for several months, I find [...]

HDR Photomatix and CS5 side-by-side

This isn’t a huge in-depth comparison of the two products.  This past weekend I went to a car show and I did quite a number of handheld bracketed images so I could make some HDR photos.  Lately I’ve been using CS5 over Photomatix because I liked the results a bit better.  I wanted to see [...]

The Photography Tip of the Week #072

The land of Crop-a-lot 072 Photography Tip of the Week (audio) There is  whole discussion one could have on cropping focused solely on whether one should crop or not.  That discussion would go into whether you should use cropping as a way of making a photo better verses getting it framed properly in camera.  This [...]

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