I have made a series of presentations on this topic at area photography clubs, from Connecticut to Maine. After the first presentation, I connected with Red River Paper who sponsored the rest of the presentations. A few years back, when I made the presentation at the Photographic Society of Rhode Island I decided to have the presentation to be recorded. The video below is from … [Read more...] about Printing Workflow and Paper Choices
Photoshop
Color Cast Removal in Photoshop
I wrote about my ongoing scanning of old photographs and some basic strategies in case you were considering a similar project. This post will address one specific issue, color cast removal using Photoshop. I will provide some examples to show you that it can work for a wide range of images. The color cast removal process I will explain may not be a universal solution but it … [Read more...] about Color Cast Removal in Photoshop
Scanning Strategies
I have scanned many slides, negatives, prints over the years. Since late December 2019, I have been doing it as a project to convert old photographs to digital and, in some ways, relive the memories. The end result, I hope will be an archive of family members, gatherings, events as well as many photographs I took in the good old film days. While working on this project, I have … [Read more...] about Scanning Strategies
From Many To One, Multiple Exposure Photography
Generally, when we take a photograph there is a single scene, one element; and, that is what we expect to see. There are, however, reasons to combine multiple photographs to produce one, more evocative image. This article was supposed to be a presentation I prepared for the Stony Brook Camera Club but due to an emergency, I had to cancel at the last minute. So, I thought of … [Read more...] about From Many To One, Multiple Exposure Photography
Automated Image Correction
Many image editors offer a button "Auto" to quickly adjust your photographs, but most of them generally fail and grossly misadjust the image. The latest version of Lightroom does a pretty good job, but I want to introduce a new piece of software in case you have not heard about it. Automated image correction by PhotoLemur yields surprisingly good results most of the time. I … [Read more...] about Automated Image Correction