All photos © Tobin Yelland Photography You started out shooting professionally at a very early age. How did this come about? I took a photography class when I was 14 and had just started skateboarding as well. Skateboarding was pretty dead at the time, if I remember correctly, and there were unlimited possibilities to make […]
Not one to be left with just 1 time consuming project, I’m also working on another blog to be added to the X-Equals + Media network focused around skateboarding. As part of this new endeavor, I have been working with Lightroom and Photoshop to create a very nice panorama. Even though some of you may […]
When it comes to shooting high ISO images and processing in Lightroom, the general consensus is Lightroom is unable to do a reasonable job at reducing noise. While it is true that Lightroom will not perform as well as Noise Ninja or Nik Dfine day in and day out, Lightroom can handle much of you […]
As Summer winds down to a close here in Chicago, we’ve taken some time to reflect on the past few seasons and some of our favorite posts. These little gems are a small taste of our upcoming Best Practices in Workflow book coming out in December*. We guarantee one of the below posts will shave […]
We sent out requests to select photographers to be part of a new series on X-equals regarding the use of natural lighting in their work. We specifically asked them: How you approach using natural light The challenges you face when working with natural light Special tips and tricks you can share for getting great images […]
Scanning Is Not An Exact Science … If you’re like me, you probably have a few shoe boxes full of old negatives from the days before digital. Whether your source material is a print, slide, or a negative, you only have one option to make it a digital file, scanning. Today let’s take a brief […]
Back in June, we sent out requests to select photographers to be part of a new series on X-equals regarding the use of natural lighting in their work. We specifically asked them: How you approach using natural light The challenges you face when working with natural light Special tips and tricks you can share for […]
Output resolution is one of the most misunderstood topics in digital photography. What is the correct DPI or PPI to export an image to produce beautiful prints or display on a screen just right? Unfortunately there is no simple answer; resolution, DPI, and PPI all represent different terms and, despite their interrelatedness, they stand as […]
Once upon a time if you wanted to take a photo, if had to be shot on film. You would buy a roll, load you camera and take you pictures. Afterwards you would take the roll to the photo lab to get developed and you would finally see your photos. The rise of digital photography […]
For an overview of how we’re leveraging dual monitors in our Lightroom workflow, head on over to the Digital Photography School. We’ve uncovered the parts that matter, along with some best practices for using the Loupe View to put your workflow on steroids and improve your productivity by 25% or more!