Category Archives: Workflow

Dropbox for Photographers

Every once in a while, some­thing comes along that rev­o­lu­tion­izes things. I think Drop­box fits this cat­e­gory. My men­tor, Nancy Ori had an assign­ment to shoot hun­dreds of wine bot­tles for a prod­uct cat­a­log. As we started dis­cussing on how to go about doing this, we came up the fol­low­ing sce­nario: It was deter­mined to setup …

February 1, 2011 – 12:01 pm | By you | Posted in Articles, General, Processing, Technology, Workflow | Comments Off

Product review: RAW Developer

In this post — I wanted to intro­duce to you “RAW Devel­oper”, which is quickly becom­ing my “Con­verter” of choice for all Land­scape and fine art images.

January 12, 2011 – 9:27 pm | By you | Posted in Articles, Cameras, Digital, General, Nikon, Processing, Technology, Workflow | Comments Off

Lens Align Mark II

Since a few years ago, I had been using an excel­lent process to fine tune my lenses. It is a painstak­ing exer­cise, but nev­er­the­less a very very use­ful and crit­i­cal thing to do on a peri­odic basis. Recently — I felt the need for a faster way to do this. This past christ­mas, when Michael Tapes …

January 8, 2011 – 7:37 pm | By you | Posted in Articles, Cameras, Digital, General, Nikon, Processing, Technology, Workflow | Comments (4)

Backing up…

Lots have been writ­ten on the sub­ject, and frankly — just like every­thing else, every­one has their “way” of back­ing up stuff. Every other type of backup prob­a­bly works well, and there is no “right” way. It is impor­tant how­ever to ensure that you are back­ing up your work and that it is a pain­less …

December 2, 2010 – 5:57 pm | By you | Posted in Articles, philosophy, Processing, Technology, Workflow | Comments Off

UniWB — A good tool for good HDRs

Well, I must first admit that this topic is nei­ther new nor my own finding/tip. I did how­ever find out about it a while ago, and have been using it for a while now. This along with the other tips on HDR and Skin tones will bring out the best from your RAW image…

September 28, 2009 – 11:08 am | By you | Posted in ACR, Articles, General, Lightroom, Notes, Photoshop, Workflow | Comments Off

A thing or two about Dynamic Range…

This is not an another post about what is Dynamic Range, intro­duc­tion to HDR and other such things. There are sev­eral arti­cles on the Inter­nets for that. This arti­cle is about the usabil­ity and prac­ti­cal­ity of Dynamic Range of a DSLR (D700 for exam­ple), and some tips on shoot­ing for HDR. The DXO Mark list D700’s (or …

September 11, 2009 – 8:39 am | By you | Posted in ACR, Articles, Cameras, D700, Digital, General, Nikon, Notes, philosophy, Technology, Workflow | Comments Off

Skin tones…

Light­room (LR) plays a sig­nif­i­cant part of my work flow. A few years ago, I had tried the approach of using Nikon’s Cap­ture for the process of RAW con­ver­sion, how­ever since LR 2 came out, I have given up on using Cap­ture. I choose LR for its DAM capa­bil­i­ties and the batch pro­cess­ing capa­bil­i­ties (and …

June 13, 2009 – 2:20 pm | By you | Posted in ACR, Articles, General, Lightroom, Photoshop, Processing, Workflow | Comments Off