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ACR Part 7 – Lens Corrections

Posted on: August 16th, 2011

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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.

Posted on: July 1st, 2011

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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

ACR Part 6 – Split Toning

Posted on: May 1st, 2011

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Split toning tab is a process where you divide an image in to two halves and then apply a colour to each of those sections. It’s a great way to produce creative effects when you apply colour theory such as blending blue shadows with yellow highlights resulting in colour vibrancy. In essence this is a