Chasing Light, Running Trails
While editing Highlights and Shadows is very straightforward with Affinity Photo with the dedicated panel provided, it's not as intuitive to edit midtones. I'm not sure why the Highlights & Shadows panel doesn't include a midtones (and it should be renamed to Tone or something similar), but there's surely a good reason. Maybe it's seldom… Continue reading Editing Midtones with Affinity Photo
I was lucky to attend the WordCamp US a few months ago in Nashville again. The city of music is a great place to visit and now that I'm into photography, I appreciate there are a lot of places to shoot. The WordCamp US is a conference around the WordPress content management system for websites.… Continue reading WordCamp US 2018 – Nashville
Beach and coast is always different full of places to explore. I was very surprised one day when I met this guy in a horse by the beach. It sure is an uncommon sight and it startled me.
One of the places I enjoyed the most in Scotland was this small town called Callander. It really delighted me with its peacefulness and quietness. One of the places I enjoyed the most during my trip to Scotland was a small town called Callander. I stopped there on my way to explore the fantastic landscape… Continue reading Scottish bliss
Been doing some explorations on light painting using a flashlight. It's really simple but fun! The only tip I could give is not to point the flashlight straight to the camera. This avoids ugly lens flares and haze. I made these two exposing 8 seconds at f11. That small aperture produced the streaks that… Continue reading Playing with light
This route is a fantastic scenic route that traverses Chile from its top to almost its end.
The vibrant traffic at the Brooklyn bridge, heading towards Brooklyn ✨ It's remarkable that 145,000 cars cross the bridge daily in average. Before the bridge opening in 1883, the only way to cross the East River was through ferry, which not only was long and tedious but sometimes dangerous due to the strong river current.⠀
One important thing to keep in mind when composing a photo is to have a subject. If there is something in the way, it should be something leading the eye towards the main subject. All other things are distractions: they take the focus away from your main subject and should be thus removed. But should… Continue reading On editing photos and removing distractions
I wanted to do a photo essay. I liked the idea of having a set of images all around the same subject. However, I couldn't, no, I didn't want to wait until I go out shooting again. So I searched through my old photos and extracted those that had some common subject. The subject was the… Continue reading Silent sights – a photo essay