by Matt K Photography | Aug 9, 2012 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Reviews
I’ve been wanting to try out Tiffen’s Dfx V3 Lightroom and Photoshop plug-in for a while now. So I installed it a few weeks ago and started diving in. I’ve gotta tell ya up front. I’m a total onOne Software and Nik Software snob. For a while,...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 6, 2012 | Lightroom, Photoshop
You’ll see there are 4 presets in this download. One of them is an all-purpose B&W effect that I use most of the time. But there’s a few others for outdoors, beaches (which is a little different than the general outdoors one, and indoor portraits)....
by Matt K Photography | Jul 26, 2012 | Photography, Photoshop
A while back Dan Steinhardt from Epson and Josh Haftel from Nik Software proposed a class for Kelby Training on Black and White printing. Of course we jumped at it because this is always a hot topic. Plus, you really can’t get two people more knowledgable and...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 25, 2012 | Lightroom, Photography, Photoshop
Last week, I co-hosted DTown TV with RC Concepcion and I mentioned a little trick that I used on the photo above (click on the photo to see it larger). It has to do with getting that smooth silky water effect (or anything in motion for that matter) when you...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 18, 2012 | Photography, Photoshop
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a photo I took while in Boston. It got a lot of great feedback, but there was one thing that I didn’t like in the photo (and it was confirmed by some comments here on the blog). At first, I was kinda lazy and thought it would be a...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 6, 2012 | Photoshop
A while back B&H Photo invited me (and others) to give my thoughts on getting better and more accurate color in your photos. The article is called “From Start to Finish: How to Get More Accurate Color From Your Images”. It’s definitely worth a...
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.