Ezra Morley

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Resize and Compression Tools for Photographers

Best Photo Viewer for photographers?

I highly recommend that you don’t try cutting out the subject and pasting it on a better background. (Unless you just want to do it for Photoshop practice…) For starters, it’s nearly impossible to get another background that will “match” well enough to look natural without some serious fiddling with colors, tints, and levels. It’s a whole lot of…[Read more]

Correct me if I’m wrong, buddingphotographer, but I think the difference is that the first one uses “RF”, a radio frequency, versus the second one that uses “IR” infrared light. https://blog.1000bulbs.com/home/ir-vs-rf-remotes-whats-the-difference

You’re right, @jamesstaddon. 🙂 I mostly find myself using my wireless remote for group portraits…[Read more]

I’ll add my 2 cents and say that I think it’s a lovely idea! It would be a great way to use our photography for something besides “sitting on a hard drive” and give us some practice with graphics design as well. 🙂

@jamesstaddon might have already covered this in the Critique, but I’ll post it anyway for future reference. 🙂

When I refer to highlights being “clipped” I’m talking about the far right side of the histogram. See the screenshot below… The red boxes are showing where you should look for clipping in the shadows and highlights. In this case, the…[Read more]

Ah ha! Now that histogram is telling the truth… 🙂 At least one channel is clipped in the highlights. I guess it’s a good thing you bracketed your shots!

OK. You want to be careful when you use the “Highlights” slider when you’re dealing with “blown out” areas in the sky (even if the histogram doesn’t show them as clipped). If you pull down the highlights too far, LR starts making things up to try to fill in the missing details, and you end up with a muddy mess. Even as good as digital sensors have…[Read more]

Yep, http://www.adorama.com and http://www.bhphotovideo.com are both highly recommended places to buy used gear. They carefully inspect all the used gear before you buy it, and they have excellent support and return policies if something does go wrong. I’d much sooner buy from them than a random seller on eBay or Amazon where you never know what you’re getting.…[Read more]

Wow, the lighting was pretty amazing! On my monitor, the “sun” part of the sunset looks a little oversaturated and clipped. Is that how it looks to you? I would be curious what the original RAW files looks like, especially the histogram…

I still get duplicates whenever someone @mentions me in a topic that I’m already subscribed to… One is a plain-text email, the other HTML. I like the HTML version, because the links are clickable, the plain text is not. 🙁 I’ll forward them both to you.

Adblock Plus just wasn’t working very well for me, some ads were making their way through the filter. (Possibly because of their so-called white-list that lets “good” ads through. uBlock promises to be lighter on computer resources, and I have no reason to disbelieve it. I never even notice that it’s there, (except in the rare instance when it…[Read more]

Any ideas about what kind of “undesired side effects” they might be referring to?

I have no idea. I actually don’t use Adblock Plus any more, I switched to uBlock Origin, which does have a stable version for Edge here: https://www.microsoft.com/store/p/app/9nblggh444l4

@buddingphotographer, wow, thanks for that DIY intervalometer hack! It works, and that saves me $30! (not to mention I wouldn’t be able to get one in time before Sunday night…).

That’s awesome, glad it worked for you! I remember feeling pretty elated when I figured out that hack for myself a while back. Glad it came in handy for others as well! 🙂

Some excellent tips from @rmadaris!
I would add that you should check out your remote, and see if it has “Bulb” mode, (where you click the shutter once to open, and a second time to close it.) If it does, then you can set your camera to “continuous shooting” mode, then set your remote to “Bulb” mode, and you end up with a DIY intervalometer! Set…[Read more]

Check out the “Defringe” tab in Darktable, that may be what you’re looking for. Here’s a video that demonstrates: https://youtu.be/cruud_MEr_U?t=14

NOTE: I linked the video to start at the 14 seconds mark instead of the beginning. (There’s a reason for that…) Otherwise, the video itself seems pretty clean.

Note to other readers: Please…[Read more]

I have also been receiving duplicate emails sometimes. It seems that whenever someone “mentions” me that I get a duplicate: one normal notification, and one notification that I was mentioned.

Any ideas, @jamesstaddon and @wpadmin?

Good job, especially for a first try! 🙂 There are a couple of older threads here about astrophotography and stacking that you might be interested to read if you’re getting into astrophotography. It seems like there should be one or two more, but I can’t seem to locate them……[Read more]

You’re very welcome @bennett-family and @freedomphotography! If you have any more questions, just ask! 🙂

@bennett-family. Absolutely! See the instructions here: https://superuser.com/a/1128443/385855

Make sure you configure the columns how you want them before you apply the steps above. 🙂

buddingphotographer, thank you so much for sharing this! This was extremely helpful to learn!! …and the screenshots were great too! 🙂

You’re very welcome, @bennett-family, glad it was helpful!