in film. I’ve been neglectful of everything else, which happens whenever something comes into my life that spurs creativity. Recently I got two new film cameras. A medium format Pentax 6×...
I’m trying to develop some new actions/presets. What I want to create is a set of somewhat basic actions/presets people can use mainly on portraits. It’s hard because I shoot a certain wa...
I’m very excited to announce my exhibition with Soulcatcher Studio! It’s been in the works for a while now, but was interrupted when we thought we were moving to Australia. One positive ...
Another picture that many people asked about was this one: This is the image SOOC: This as after ACR: These are the settings in ACR: In Photoshop I added a black to white Gradient Map Adjustment Laye...
I’ve had a bunch of people ask about the processing of this picture: For some reason I can’t find the original RAW file (I must have moved it somewhere “safe”) so I picked one...
Do you have a question you’d like to ask me about photography or Photoshop? Want to link to a picture on Flickr and ask how I edited it? Email me at flimmerings at gmail dot com and I’ll ...
Sometimes my pictures look boring to me, so I like to add just a little something to make it more interesting. One of the ways I do that is with the radial blur filter. This is the original picture ...
Occasionally I like to add a texture layer to my pictures. It’s pretty easy to do, you just have to create or find a texture to use. If you search Flickr for “free texture” you...
Hello world Trying to get back into the swing of things. My photography seems to have ebbs and flows, and I’m just coming out of an ebb. Things not quite flowing yet, but at least I feel like ...
This is from the newest issue of Nikon World ~ I love the picture they chose.
Cindy and I have released the “Fabulous” collection. Most of the credit goes to Cindy, as I’ve been super flaky about it (and now sick). They can be found on our action site! Nikko...
Hi everyone! Sorry for my long absence, just busy with the rest of my life I’m putting together ideas for a workshop of some sort ~ I’ll announce anything I come up with on here. I took a...
The idea of doing some sort of workshop or something has been kicking around inside my head for a while. I enjoy teaching I think, much more than I enjoy doing sessions/weddings. So, if you think th...
I get asked how to shoot “wide open” a lot, meaning setting the aperture to it’s very lowest setting (which means it’s as open as it can possibly be). So here are some though...
i just love this picture.
Made for the husband’s birthday. I think it must have been the predecessor to all those molten cakes that are so very popular. From “Cooks Country” Magazine Tunnel of Fudge Cake Se...
I realized it’s my blog and I can be self-indulgent and post videos of my kids doing cute things
The ‘Develop’ settings in Lightroom 2 and the settings in ACR (CS4) are exactly the same, in case you didn’t know that. So anything I talk about doing in ACR you can do in Lightroo...
I have tried many different methods of converting pictures to black and white in Photoshop and I’ve found that my favorite way of doing it is in ACR. I shoot RAW so it works easily. (If you s...
I often get asked about the light in my pictures. I don’t really have a great, one-step answer, so I thought I’d talk about a one of the tools I use to help me get the light right in my ...
Someone asked how I processed a recent picture so here it is…. Above is unprocessed. This is how it looked after I was finished with it in ACR ~ below is how I adjusted the settings: And after ...
Do you have one? I was going to write out a post about photography but then thought it might be easier to answer specific questions ~ I never know where to start and I tend to just ramble So leave a ...
In the last post I wrote about curves and how they can be used to “tone” a picture, or change the coloring of a picture. There are a thousand different ways to do this, so I thought I...
Curves are intimidating when you’re first learning Photoshop. But once you do figure them out, you will use them all the time. This is the Curve Adjustment Layer dialog box. The diagonal line c...
One of the simplest processing tricks you can use is this: Open your picture and add a levels adjustment layer. BUT ~ don’t adjust anything. Just add the layer. Now, go to the Layer Mode drop...
This was yesterday afternoon. She slept there for about two hours and had an “accident”. The joys of parenting involve googling “How to get urine out of leather”….
(seems to be some weird color space issue, as always. trying to figure it out) This is just one example of how I process portraits. This is the picture without any adjusting. I always shoot RAW so...
Poor baby…
Everyone should know how to use a layer mask. It’s very simple and can make a huge difference in your processing. 1) When you create a new adjustment layer they automatically include a layer m...
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