My thoughts on digital imaging.

When visiting the awesome photography show at the NEC in Birmingham I left leaving one thing (other than a Hasselblad) which was Topaz labs...usually skeptical of overly polished sales demos this one had me hook line and sinker so I decided to purchase it a few days after. The complete bundle boast many creative and artistic features but I was particularly blown away by  'DeNoise 6' and 'ReMask 5'. Both claimed to improve quality and save time in doing the job, and both work seamlessly with Photoshop and Lightroom. I decided to create a blog to show both features in action using my own images. Firstly I deliberately took a shot at ISO3200, pushing the limits of what my 5D markII can cope with. The image was very noisy as you can see from the 1st example and the zoomed image taken from DeNoise 6. Sky shot at ISO3200. DeNoise 6 differs from other noise removal plug-ins because rather than delete pixels it intelligently  colours them back in meaning the quality of...

Over the easter period a notice came up on the College notice board requiring photographers and an editor for paid work. I am fairly handy with Lightroom and Photoshop but was a little hesitant as I've only worked for myself as photographer and was unsure what level of editing would be expected. I decided to give it a go and it turns out I was working for a level 5 student on my course. She had taken on the the massive task of doing team and individual player photos at a local football tournament (85+ teams). I generally see any experience as good experience especially as editing is an area I'm keen to improve going forward. The job required minimal editing in the form of minor exposure adjustments and cropping to the requirements of the print size. That being said it was still a difficult task. I had 4 photographers continuosly arriving with SD cards full of images, the task of editing the images then exporting them and also selecting and printing certain images. All...