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Cool! Just Don’t Call It Photography

Will AI enhance or undermine creativity? Adobe is going all in on artificial intelligence (AI) in its products, most notably for us, Lightroom and Photoshop.   I’ll admit to watching, somewhat slack-jawed as Lightroom’s AI Generative Fill seamlessly removes distracting elements from an image.  Other than some concern this will encourage laziness behind the camera, I […]

New Year’s Resolutions for Photographers

A new year and the chance for a new start.  What will you focus on this year?  Perhaps you will resolve to spend more time shooting? Perhaps you’ll venture into a new (to you) genre.  Perhaps you will finally take a deep dive into your camera manual and fully master all its important features.    These […]

Never Center Your Subject ???

The art of composition is full of rules; one of them being, “Don’t ‘bullseye’ your subject in the centre of the frame”.  Overly centered compositions are generally considered static and boring — the “Rule of Thirds” which we all learn early on, is a way to break the static nature of centered compositions.  But, there […]

AI-based Noise Reduction for Lightroom!

On April 18th, Adobe released a game-changing update to Lightroom and Camera Raw.  While there are some interesting improvements in masking that will be of interest to portrait photographers, and we finally have the Tone Curve in local adjustments, the big news is in the Detail Panel.  With little fanfare and even less advance notice, […]

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