Category: Lightroom

This photographer turns his imagination into amazing surreal digital manipulations

John Aldred

The world can be a pretty strange and surreal place as it is, but for those times when it’s not quite weird enough, we can always rely on photographers and image manipulators like Ted Chin to show us things we couldn’t possibly imagine. After finding Ted’s work on Instagram, where he has over 21,000 followers, DIYP got in touch […]

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Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos

JP Danko

This is one of those subjects in the photography world that is strangely controversial – like Nikon vs. Canon, DSLR vs. Smartphone and Prime vs. Zoom … the idea that you should delete your sh!t – or in other words – why you might want to permanently delete most of the photos that you’ve ever […]

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Creating a new breed of super hero, one sad and lonely photo at a time

John Aldred

When I first came across the work of Russian photographer, Ilya Nodia, I knew I was going to like what I saw as I headed towards his portfolio. In this particular project, the tale of “Captain Sadness”, the story goes something like this… In 1989, young Rick Sogers won a lookalike competition of Captain America in […]

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Before & After – A post processing comparison with Peter Stewart

Peter Stewart

I like to approach my digital photography with a certain sense of the fantastical and the surreal. Many of my architectural and cityscape images feature the use of bracketed multiple exposures, which allow me to retain highlight detail in things like window lights and neon signs when shooting at night, or shadow detail in underexposed […]

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How to turn toy action figures into life sized super heroes with compositing

John Aldred

We’ve all been there, playing with our action figures as kids as if they were real.  For me it was He-Man.  For photographer Ari Mahardhika, it’s the characters of Marvel Universe, but just playing wasn’t enough. In this amazing series of images, Ari has brought these action figures to life, using a selection of techniques to […]

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Lightroom 6.5 and CC Updates add New Camera and Lens Support

Eric Reagan

Adobe has updated Lightroom CC and Lightroom 6 to versions CC 2015.5 and 6.5, respectively. The update adds support for a number of new cameras, which include: Canon EOS-1D X Mark II Canon EOS 80D Canon EOS 1300D (Rebel T6, Kiss X80) Nikon D5 Nikon D500 Olympus PEN-F Olympus SH-3 Panasonic DMC-CM10 Panasonic DMC-GF8 Panasonic DMC-ZS100 (DMC-ZS110, DMC-TZ100, […]

Lightroom Mobile 2.2

Kevin Ames

The Honda Odyssey above was boldly going up Peachtree Boulevard smartly dressed as a shuttle from the StarShip Enterprise. That look into the future reminded me that everyday gets better thanks to updates to our technology. Adobe did just that today when it pushed an update to iOS users for Lightroom Mobile on March 2. […]