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Using Your Synology NAS with Lightroom Classic – Part 4
If you haven’t already done it, sign up to the COAP Academy, Rich and Tom will cover the Lightroom catalogue and folder structures.Â
Lightroom Catalogue and Images
It is critical the Lightroom catalogue runs on a local dr...
Accounts, Mobile Apps and Desktop Apps
Synology Account - https://account.synology.com/ Set up an account, you will need this to register you NAS and manage support tickets and subscription or licences.  Also, the NAS and some services need this to work.
Synology Active Insights...
If you haven’t already ready my blog “Image Storage Guide”, please read it first.
Blog: Image Storage Guide | COAP Online
This blog is a follow on to the “Image Storage Guide” and covers selecting a Synology NAS, connection, configuration and some ideals on how to work with a Syn...
One big issue of shooting air to air, and in some instances ground to air, is giving you subject room to fly. The image below is so typical of an air-to-air shot, the horizon isn’t level due to the banking if the photo ship and as the aircraft is so close, you had to shoot wide an...
The magic of Adobe Lightroom masking gives us one of the best tool sets for aviation photography. The ability to change the levels on the aircraft, sky and background independently means even the flattest image can pop.
This image of an RAF C-130 Hercules was was shot from Cad Ea...
A little origin story for my latest post with the 747 head-on shot.
It was back in 2012, I had bought my first DSLR just over 2 years before and was taking first cautious steps towards aviation photography. But even then I knew I wanted something more out of my aviation photo
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RAF F-35B Edit Walkthrough - Making Flat Skies Pop!
I’m a regular user of the Lightroom mobile platform. Since they introduced the masking features in October 2021 it has drastically improved my editing capabilities massively.
First of all I start with the corrective parts, enabli...
I think we’ll all agree that aviation photography is a unique niche that combines passion, precision, and, of course, the right tools and techniques. One critical aspect of the post-processing workflow is choosing the appropriate file type to save and export your images. Whether you’re ...
By Bradley Rogers
Join me as I start an edit from scratch! We all love to edit, it's such a creative release, so let's do this one together with a welcome walkthrough of one of my edits!
Here's a screen-record of a Bruntingthorpe Lightning edit, where I talk you through my process from approaching...
A quick demonstration of how I plan a shot and remove stubborn distractions.
Whilst roaming the statics at IWM Duxford’s Battle of Britain airshow I noticed a woman in an American ATA uniform sitting in a USAF marked Spitfire(from her reaction she had asked for a nosey and got t
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In the middle of a Dark Knight trilogy binge, I stopped on this scene around the middle of the Dark Knight. Looking at the colours I thought I would try and replicate it with a photo of my own. During the COAP Lightroom course Tom’s talk on colour theory really interested me and this s...
Here's a helpful screen recording to give an insight to how I edit.
I love editing, and love to share my behind the scenes work. I’d so much rather do this than read a book! So in this video I take you through my editing process of this shot from the COAP Lightnings Shoot h
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