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Lightroom: Processing an Infrared Raw

This tutorial starts in Lightroom, where I'll just show you how easy it is to take the IR raw and convert it to monochrome but its real purpose is in creating a false colour image from the same file and for that I work in both Adobe Camera Raw and then Photoshop CC, writes Andrew James.

Christine’s elephants in punchy B&W

Foto-Buzz member Christine Bennett's wrestling elephants image gets some Lightroom and a bit of Photoshop treatment to give it a punchy black & White look, writes Andrew James.

Johnny’s Leopard Portrait

Foto-Buzz member Johnny MacDougall took a cracking leopard portrait while in Africa recently and when posting it on the Critique Forum lots of you suggested it needed warming up, writes Andrew James. You were right, so in this video we'll bring out the best in Johnny's raw file using Lightroom.

Lightroom: Developing Jane’s deer image

This photo of a wild deer was taken by Foto-Buzzer Jane Barnard and it needs processing in both Lightroom and Photoshop to get the best results, writes Andrew James.

The lowdown on Low Key

When photographers talk about the highlights and the shadows in a picture, the looseness of language means that they’re often talking about the brighter and darker tones on display in the frame, writes Jon Adams. As an example, imagine James Bond in typical evening dress attire, and we’d often descr...Read More

High Key style wildlife

In this article I am going to look at how you can use the High-Key style in your wildlife photography, writes Andrew James. There are two elements to this and we’ll deal with each one of them in turn. The first is shooting High-Key style when the conditions allow it, and the other is more down to pr...Read More

Understanding High Key

Most photographers bump into the term ‘high key’ at some early stage in their exploration of the hobby, but over the years – and especially with the growth of ‘experts’ on the Internet – the description and definition of this style of lighting has become a little blurred and confusing, writes Jon Ad...Read More