Recent content by Sam Tip

Surely GAS is just a symptom. Recently I switched from a laptop to a powerful mini PC. Then, more or less by accident, I got into gaming, and now I’m chasing down an Oculink Dock Station to help me lift bigger images and drive AAA games. There’s no end to it because for decades I’ve been...

Hello there Dale. It's hard to judge too much from the small image here, but it looks like you've done a good job of capturing all the tones you need for processing, and made the most of the warm low sunshine. You're on the right track here. Have you had a play yet with Lightroom's black and...

I learned the hard way that it's better to have more hardware leverage than you originally thought you'd need (if we can afford it!).

That's my general approach too. As for histograms, it can be helpful to remember that "the histogram displayed on the camera’s LCD screen is based on processed JPEG settings, not the raw file itself. This means that relying solely on the camera’s histogram may not always result in the most...

I could recommend the work of Michael Freeman for beginners, The Photographer’s Exposure Field Guide, for example. Using various metering modes for exposure can be tricky. I’d agree that evaluative metering these days does a good job in a wide range of contexts. As for spot metering...

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Very true. This reminded me of an excellent short talk given by Constantine Manos.

Hello Wayne. I’ve been an amateur since late 1976 when I peered through my ginger fringe at a new Minolta SRT 101b in the window of my local camera shop. I spent some of my apprentice wages on the camera and 2 lenses, the 28mm and 50mm. Trial and error and many magazines helped me grasp the...

I seem to remember it being a problem occasionally on the Fujifilm X-T1? I'm guessing though that's with cameras that got heavy use.

Hello there Phil. I thought I had made a rather obvious point? For me AI photo-images have inspired and motivated me in a photography context. So... it's been very much about photography. These images are immersed in a photographic context and making them (and seeing the work of others) has...

Hello David. I've been using Luminar Neo for a few weeks now. It's quite AI-ish in its approach, if you know what I mean? Which is why I so far prefer Affinity Photo 2. It has a more hands on feel to it and I've thrown quite a lot at it one way or another, but I'm always working in it with...

In my opinion, for what it's worth, most digital photographers take the image with a camera and 'make' it in software. But of course we can choose to capture camera-processed images and make no software adjustments. Or we can shoot film and tinker with scans or at an enlarger. In my experience...

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I definitely agree with this. I no longer shoot film myself, but when I did I tried to make every shot count. That's very different to the "take lots of shots and come home with a full card" mentality. Of course, to an extent it depends on our goals and what we're shooting. With the likes of...