Photoblog

  The second part of our north of Spain trip moved a bit to the west in the amazing Asturias. A hidden gem along the coast, with very photogenic beaches, some great mountains ( we didn’t explore those as we focused mostly on the coastline) and great food. After a long train ride from Santander, we ended up in Naves, a small village close to Llanes. It felt and smelt like countryside: horses , cows, fermented grass covered in plastic( to feed the animals during winter), algae collected from the sea to be used probably as natural fertilizers. The hotel was unexpectedly good (Hotel Villa Maron a 19th century house, tastefully renovated and with everything that you need for a comfortable stay). The photographic highlight of the area is Castro de las Gaviotas, a beautiful arch in the water, just off the coast, that offers quite few composition choices. One of them, from Playa de la Huelga, gives very nice elements to play with, like the small Rio de San Cecill...

Few days ago, I was contacted by Jane from Sleekness, offering the chance to review their Landscape adventure workflow for PS .  Sleeklens are having a large collection of actions for Photoshop and Lightroom . They also offer professional photo editing services . Sleekness Landscape adventure workflow for PS is a collection of Photoshop actions, containing a lot of helpful adjustments covering most of the steps that are normally part of post-processing workflow for landscape photography: exposure, contrasts,  tones, temperature, details, Orton effect, clarity, sharpening. There is a similar collection for Lightroom as well, but since I do most of my work in Photoshop, I opted for this one. The collection is organised in logical processing sequence, following steps that combines multiple action of the same kind: exposure, base (global adjustments), tones, enhancements, temperature and web preparation of the file. There are two other categories available among them...