Photoblog

I’ve been playing for about 15 minutes with the brand new and shiny image processing software released by the guys from Macphun: Luminar 2018. I got caught a bit in the hype surrounding this new product, with a quite cheap pre-release price. But the reason is actually a different one: the inclusion of a SmugMug Power plan (72 eur value) in the Luminar 2018 list benefits ( we had a long term wish to switch from Zenfolio to SmugMug – more about this in a future post) . I have quite a lot of contradicting feelings and impressions about Luminar after the first tests . This is far from being a comprehensive review (I might write one later, when getting the chance to try it out more). Bellow is a very quick results of my trials. Interface: the interface is clean and quite intuitive. Lots of things look surprisingly identical to Lightroom or Photoshop. There are many functionality that have been totally cloned out from the Adobe products (HSL filter, Chanel mixer, Colour balance). Eve...

This is the tutorial that I wrote for 1X some time ago. The plan was to photograph a famous building while paying homage to the well-known architect who designed it. Everything was perfect, except for the stark, uninteresting sky. Don’t let a barren, blue sky ruin your otherwise flawless image. Here’s what to do, before and after you take the photo. Turning Torso, the tallest building in Scandinavia, is a famous architectural landmark in Malmö, Sweden. Renowned architect, structural engineer and sculptor Santiago Calatrava designed it, and it was inspired by his own marble sculpture of a human form called “Twisting Torso”. The spiraling, residential skyscraper is fully powered by locally produced renewable energy, and it twists a complete 90 degrees clockwise from top to bottom. I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, and because Malmö is just on the other side of Øresund Bridge, I was inclined to include Turning Torso in my long-term photo project “Geometry in Motio...

This is one of the moral questions of photography. Shall I process my images or post them straight out of the camera? Some people are moving this to a different moral level :processing images, especially by adding or removing elements, is cheating and the authors are persons with a low ethical standards. According to them, only very few tweaks are allowed on an image (contrast, saturation, maybe cropping if it is not really changing the overall feeling). In this way the reality is not altered at all, and the photography has a documentary role, reminding the next generations how it was life these days. All of these are true in a way, but this theory is built on a false premise: that the photography should have an exclusive documentary role. Analyzing this, you can just say that it is just a small argumentation mistake. But looking from a different perspective, those people are actually excluding photography from the broad category of art and they recogni...