Introduction In the world of drone videography, capturing breathtaking footage is only half the battle. The magic often happens in post-production, where you can transform raw clips into cinematic masterpieces. For anyone seeking to add a vintage, film-like feel to their drone footage, Dehancer offers a powerful solution. In today’s post, I’ll be walking you
Transforming Digital Photos with Dehancer: A First Look and Review With digital photography, everything is sharp, clear, and often clinically perfect. Conversely, there’s something deeply nostalgic about the look of film. Whether it’s the grainy texture, the warm tones, or the slightly faded colours, film brings a sense of history and emotion that digital often
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I photograph teams all the time – it’s great fun meeting and getting to know everyone, albeit usually very briefly. I understand that selecting a photographer to capture your team can be a daunting task, and you may have several questions about the process. That’s why I’ve created a video that answers some of the
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In advance of our Manchester workshop, where I was going to show the delegates how to shoot extra long exposures, using 10 stop (or even 15 stop) neutral density filters, I popped down to the beautiful world heritage site at Saltaire. If you’ve not been, this is the site of a Victorian Mill,
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Have you been a walk this winter and photographed dead plants, twigs or leaves on branches, got home and been uninspired by them – they don’t really jump off the screen? Well previously in Lightroom, to make these “pop” out of your monitor, you would have to work quite hard to make your subject really
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Sometimes you only get a fleeting second of light and you’ll have to grab what you can with the camera you having your hands. The story behind this photo is that we were walking to a limestone pavement to capture photos of trees growing out of rocks when one of the clouds opened and let
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Landscapes, Tips, Training, Video Tutorials, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales
Like many people I have used HDR or purely ambient light for property photography for years, when time permitted I would use a a flash or 2 to add some light to the rooms but the results were always a little bit garish, bright and weird shadows would get in the way. This relatively novel
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Imagine a world where you could click one thing and your photo would be edited to your personal taste – fast photo editing software is the ultimate productivity booster, is Luminar AI the tool for this? Obviously 1-click editing isn’t really possible because every photograph is different and every situation as different lighting and composition,
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Sometimes you just cannot get everything in Focus in one shot… This happens a lot when you are photographing landscapes with a very close foreground, the background becomes blurry if you focus on the foreground, and vice versa. In this tutorial I show you two photos I took of the exact same scene, all the
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Usually when doing light painting workshops, I have several people with torches all lighting the scene at the same time so we catch everything in one frame which you can view there and then on the night. But when you are alone, or in small groups, often it isn’t possible because you just cannot get
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