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 […]
Photography can be an expensive endeavor, regardless of it you are a professional or an enthusiast. One thousand dollars can buy you Lightroom and Photoshop, with about enough money left over to buy a lunch or two. Then if you decide to add on some great plug-ins to these pieces of software, you can blow […]
Last time we briefly covered scanning photos in such a way that will produce great results when performing further editing in Lightroom. Today we are going to look at the process of working with these scanned files in Lightroom, laying out my personal workflow and some tips that I have discovered over the past few […]
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 […]
It’s not hard to get a lot of photos in Lightroom … and I do mean a LOT of photos. Ten-thousand, twenty-thousand, one hundred-thousand. I’ve seen some pretty big catalogs. What do you do when you need to find one of those images? This is where keywording in Lightroom saves the day. … when photographers […]
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 […]