Celtic Shadows

ACR Part 8 – Effects Panel

CSD Images — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:05:58 +0000

This the area where you can start to add some effects or counter the side effects of noise reduction. It contains two sections: 1) Grain 2) Post Crop Vignetting I’ll look at Grain first. It seems counter-intuitive we have a noise reduction and a creative grain function within the ACR converter, but it does have [...]

Baptism of Fire

CSD Images — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:09:50 +0000

I had just bought a new Canon 5D Mk II and got a nice deal on a Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens so I wanted to test this combination out to see what both can do. It would be the second outing for both pieces of gear. Moving from the Canon 30D to the Canon 5D [...]

Oh so quiet…

CSD Images — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:00:17 +0000

Just a quick update. The last few months have been rather hectic and I’ve been reviewing Photoshop CS6 Beta to see the new changes coming down the pike. This will be one of the biggest changes to Photoshop in a long time and by Jove it’s shaping up to be one of the best. One [...]

ACR Part 7 – Lens Corrections

CSD Images — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:00:59 +0000

It’s a fact of life that all lenses are imperfect; it’s the nature of lens design and physics that dictate this rather than any design flaws inherent in the lenses themselves. Whilst professional and high end lenses minimise the imperfections they will employ a wide variety of techniques to offset these weaknesses such as lens [...]

Fiat Lux – How to approach lighting a scene.

CSD Images — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:00:45 +0000

There is little difference between lighting a studio to an outdoor location. The only difference is that you’ve got ambient light to contend with. Arguably you’ll learn more about lighting a subject working outdoors than you will in the controlled environment of a studio, but the downside is the amount of kit you may need [...]