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Completing Your Vision in Post-Processing

March 24, 2015 by Vic Berardi 4 Comments

Red-tailed Hawk / Photo by Vic Berardi
Red-tailed Hawk / Photo by Vic Berardi
Note from the editor (Steve): After reading this great post by my Dad, please check out his new blog, where he’s writing about his travels, his passion for hawks, and other thoughts on life.

That term “vision”—what does it mean? For me it’s simple. When I get home from a day of shooting, I review all my photos. I intentionally look for the images that stood out when I first saw them through my viewfinder. However, I usually get confusingly disappointed when I realize the camera didn’t capture the scene exactly the way I “saw” it—or maybe the way I thought I saw it? [Read more…] about Completing Your Vision in Post-Processing

Filed Under: Philosophy Tagged With: edit, ethics, filter, lightroom, photos, photoshop, post, post processing, vision

How To Protect Your Photos Online

November 20, 2013 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

In a previous post, I talked about the benefits of sharing your photos online. But, even after reading about these great benefits, you might be worried that someone will steal your photos if you post them online.

Well, luckily there’s a few things you can do to help protect your images:

#1 – Add Watermarks

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi

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Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: copyright, exif, iptc, lightroom, metadata, online, photos, photoshop, protect, resolution, steal, watermark

Learn more than exposure from the histogram

January 20, 2010 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

histogram-titleIn a previous post, I explained how to use the histogram to get a better exposure (and then how to do it better with the RGB version). The histogram is a great tool, and it can even tell you a lot more than just the exposure of your image. It can also help show you properties like contrast.

Brian Auer recently wrote some wonderful articles on his blog that illustrate some of the other things you can learn from the histogram, so I thought I’d share them:

  • How to read image histograms
  • Photo editing with histograms: 6 basic settings

I usually just share these kinds of links on our Twitter or Facebook pages, but I thought these were so good that they deserved a blog post 🙂 [Read more…] about Learn more than exposure from the histogram

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: brightness, contrast, darkroom, exposure, histogram, images, lightroom, post processing, raw, rgb

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