Don’t Follow the Crowd: Why You Should Trial Photo Editing Software Before You Buy

In the world of digital photography, the conversation around post-processing software often feels like a one-horse race. Adobe’s offerings, particularly Photoshop and Lightroom, are the “gold standard” and the packages that everyone “knows.” While there’s no denying their power and ubiquity, simply choosing a program because “that’s what everyone else uses” is a major disserviceContinue reading “Don’t Follow the Crowd: Why You Should Trial Photo Editing Software Before You Buy”

Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies – Part 2

Welcome to the second part of “Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies” (click the link if you missed it!). The first part had some great feedback, and ruffled the feathers of a few who simply didn’t understand that it was looking back at a time before technology, the internetContinue reading “Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies – Part 2”

Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies – Part 1

Have you noticed that when you look at images taken longer than a decade or so ago that they look very different from images we see now. I’m not talking about images you’ve taken for your job (if you were/are a photographer back then), I mean the everyday images that we take. The images thatContinue reading “Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies – Part 1”

Jpeg Files Are Misunderstood – Are They Flexible Enough For Editing? The Answer Will Surprise you!

Many of us take our photographers using raw files to capture all the details, and of course, that makes total sense! However, there is always a vicious lie that you can not recover details from jpeg files. While, to some degree this is correct for some photos, jpeg files far more malleable than you mayContinue reading “Jpeg Files Are Misunderstood – Are They Flexible Enough For Editing? The Answer Will Surprise you!”

Nikon NX Studio Review

I’ve recently started using NX Studio by Nikon on a much more regular basis than I thought I would. I started using the software to create colour profiles for Nikon Z cameras, but soon realised that NX Studio was more than capable of editing software, and it’s completely free! Here is a comprehensive review ofContinue reading “Nikon NX Studio Review”