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Since 2013, I’ve published hundreds of blog posts on all aspects of photography. Some are aimed at helping photographers with their technique, settings, and equipment, but others describe my exhibitions, workshops, and adventures in Africa, Antarctica, and beyond.

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Experiment with Lens Blur
Lightroom, Hints and tips Nick Dale Lightroom, Hints and tips Nick Dale

Experiment with Lens Blur

Lightroom's latest release (13.0.1) has just come out, and it offers a cool new AI feature called Lens Blur that works with any image format. It's labelled 'Early Access', so it's experimental and doesn't (yet) work with masking or presets or include sharpening, but it's a great way to add creative blur in post.

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Lightroom presets
Nick Dale Nick Dale

Lightroom presets

Everybody seems to be selling Lightroom presets these days, but I hardly use them.

The problem with ‘adopting’ someone else’s presets is that they probably won’t do what you want them to do. Yes, they could probably make a dramatic difference to some photos, but you lose control because they are almost always bundles of adjustments, not all of which are necessary.

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Selective colour
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Selective colour

The advent of digital cameras led to a number of changes in photography, and one of those was the chance to create pictures using selective colour.

The basic idea is to turn a photograph into black and white and then highlight the key area by colouring it in again.

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How to sharpen an image
Hints and tips Nick Dale Hints and tips Nick Dale

How to sharpen an image

I use Adobe Lightroom for editing all my images, and it’s a very good program, so generally I have no complaints.

However, there’s one thing I never do in Lightroom, and that’s sharpening.

The problem is that ‘sharpening’ in Lightroom is not really sharpening at all. It’s contrast. And there’s a big difference.

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Lightroom settings
Hints and tips Nick Dale Hints and tips Nick Dale

Lightroom settings

In the last year, I've started doing all my photographic post-processing in Lightroom. It's the program used by most professional photographers and is reasonably user-friendly, but the problem is choosing all the right settings.

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