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One big issue of shooting air to air, and in some instances ground to air, is giving you subject room to fly.Ā The image below is so typical of an air-to-air shot, the horizon isnāt 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.Ā 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!
Iām 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 weāll 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 youāre ...
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 demonstrationĀ of how I plan a shot and remove stubborn distractions.
Whilst roaming the statics at IWM Duxfordās 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 Tomās 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. Iād 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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I have never done anything like this before, so hopefully it will all work & make sense! I have had a couple of people ask about my recent āvintageā style edits & it was suggested I write one of these blogs, so here we goā¦
I have tried old fashioned/vintage style edits before, but n...
Following on from the MergeĀ Meet regarding Adobeās new leap in witchcraft technology Generative Fill, I thought Iād put up an example of what I found it can do.
Iāve been using Generative Fill for a couple of weeks now and thought Iād put it to the test the other day. This is a s...
For a while now, artificial intelligence has been creeping into our world. Itās not just about writing essays for GCSE students, or creating digital artwork from simple commands. It is now becoming more useful and intriguing than ever before. Maybe the most popular Ai system for p...
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