Boy, was I wrong.\u00a0 Thanks to some wiser and more experienced digital photographers, I was able to see the error of my ways.\u00a0 The light came on (pun intended) when it was pointed out to me that developing my own black-and-white prints from film was nothing more than post-processing.\u00a0 Why should using computer technology be any different?<\/p>\n
As one who has made a career in the computer industry, all of a sudden it seemed like a natural fit.\u00a0 Fortunately, Adobe makes available for 30 days a nifty program called Lightroom. Thanks to the folks at MacUpdate<\/a>, Four days into my 30 day trial, I went to Adobe’s site and purchased the product!<\/p>\n And that’s not all.\u00a0 I also learned of a program called easyHDR<\/a> I have been going through photos I’ve taken over the past few years, and with just some minor tweaks, have turned some “good” shots into pictures that “pop!”\u00a0 I may not be ready to enter any photo contests, but I’m finding out there’s a lot more to digital photography than just taking<\/em> the picture!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I feel like the stubborn mule who has to get its head walloped just to get its attention. For some reason, when photography went digital, I adopted the belief that what the camera saw was absolute:\u00a0 what the lens saw … Continue reading ![\"Adobe](\"http:\/\/wwwimages.adobe.com\/www.adobe.com\/content\/dam\/Adobe\/mena_ar\/downloads\/lightroom-50x50.png.adimg.mw.58.png\")
I was alerted to a new version of this program and decided to check it out.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.easyhdr.com\/logo\/easyhdr_logo_48.png\"){kind=logo}
that includes a Lightroom plug-in.\u00a0 HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, which is a method of combining two differently exposed shots of the same subject into one, allowing a finer resolution of highlights and shadows.\u00a0 It’s a bit more complex than that, but now all of a sudden I have a quiver of computer tools at my disposal to enhance and correct the shots I take.<\/p>\n