Linear Curves; How Making Your Images Look Really Dull Might Be the Way to Go
This is the title for my article about linear curves and HDR in Capture One Pro 8/9 on the website PhotosApps.Expert. Read the full article here.
My latest article about Capture One Pro
Where Oh Where Will All My JPEGs Go… Apple Photos or Capture One Pro? This is the title for my latest article about Capture One Pro 8 on the website PhotosApps.Expert. It was meant as a jokey working title but it seems to have stuck. Read the full article here.
Barcelona Hair Academy
I have been getting my hair cut for a couple of years now by Emma, she has now set up with Cecilia a new venture, the Barcelona Hair Academy. Cecilia asked me to do some publicity shots at the new location, a very cool space in Gracia, an old industrial building now housing various start ups and the like.…
Your Aperture Files Imported into Capture One Pro 8; the Good, the Bad and the Missing
This is my second article for photoapps.expert, This time dealing with what happens to Aperture Library images in Capture One Pro 8, writing these articles has been an enlightening experience and is teaching me to be a lot more methodical, especially when asserting what is or is not possible (I am expecting to get pulled up…
Using Aperture Libraries in Capture One Pro 8
I recently was invited to write about my experiences using Capture One Pro 8 for another site, I was pleasantly surprised and got to work, it turned out to be a lot more work than I imagined as I found I had to be a little more ‘scientific’ in my approach and actually test out…
Capture One Pro 8; Some Initial Likes and Dislikes
I have started to immerse myself in the programme, but a short trip interrupted the flow and I feel like I almost need to start again! As an Aperture user in the process of migrating a couple of things I like and dislike have become apparent; If you liked Aperture’s interface then C1 with kind…
Goodbye Aperture; Hello Capture One Pro 8
Well, we finally got the confirmation recently that the Photo app from Apple would not be any kind of new Aperture; it’s aimed squarely at iPhoto users and a lot of them might be unsure if it’s even fit for purpose for some of their workflows. Apple, it would seem, is no longer interested in…
My New Website
I woke up one morning last week and just erased my old website. I then checked out some templates on WordPress and got to work on a new one. I am not au fait with coding as such, so customising took some time and eventually, in exasperation, got some help from my friend Piper, when it came…
On using retro camera apps on smartphones
I have decided to do a post dedicated to retro style images usually caught on todays smart phones using special apps. I use Hipstamatic quite a lot and love the effects it can produce, I started using it maybe 2 years ago. After experimenting I soon found a combination of camera and film type I liked…