Swapping Channels for Color Control

Swapping Channels for Color Control

Use the Channel Mixer to Change Color Rendering I had great fun with my infrared-modified Fuji X-E2 during our last trip to Venice for Carnival. The costumers made perfect subjects for the surreal rendering of the infrared captures. The modification of the Fuji camera...
January 2016 Mandala of the Month

January 2016 Mandala of the Month

Happy New Years everyone! I haven’t posted in a while, and its high time I did. This past year has been filled with distractions—I got married to Bobbi Lane, traveled to Greece and Turkey, and had a very intense (but happy) holiday season. So… now back to...
Using Lightroom as a Comping Tool

Using Lightroom as a Comping Tool

These days it is very popular for photographers to do all of their image enhancements in Lightroom, never once entering Photoshop. There are quite a few photographers entering the field who have never even opened Photoshop, and if it doesn’t work with simple...
Lab Luminosity Masks

Lab Luminosity Masks

Its been way too long since I posted a new tutorial, so to usher in the new year, I submit this step-by-step video on using Lab channels as the source for luminosity masks. This type of masking is all the rage right now, and you can find many tutorials about the...
The 10-Channel Image Enhancement Workflow

The 10-Channel Image Enhancement Workflow

Working the Trees I have been slowly developing an image enhancement workflow I call, The 10-channel Workflow. This is a flexible image enhancement strategy extracted from the ground breaking work of Dan Margulis. Dan’s working method, originally called the...