Category Archives: Photoshop techniques

Reminiscences of a prepress guy

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I am an old prepress guy. I owned one of the first PostScript service bureaus in the U.S. I was there at the beginning. It was painful, but overall it was a great business. We had been traditional typographers, and … Continue reading →

The fascinating Laowa macro probe lens

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I’m not sure how I learned about it. One day it showed up on my computer screen, and I jumped. Today it arrived on my front porch. It’s strange and curious and fascinating and some might say useless. I have … Continue reading →

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My new Canon EOS R mirrorless camera
and a new world of high ISO shooting

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I was excited when Canon and Nikon both announced their mirrorless pro (or semi-pro) cameras last fall. The time had come. Sony has been in the market for three generations now, and Canon had made a few attempts (EOS M, … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software, Web | Tagged Adobe Camera Raw, Brian Lawler, Canon EOS R, EOS R, Festival Mozaic, mirrorless camera, noise reduction, Scott Yoo | Leave a comment

The case for using DNG as your primary file type

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Brian Lawler

I have files created by a Kodak-branded, Canon digital camera from this century that can no longer be read. This is my second case of file obsolescence; the first being Kodak Photo CD files that cannot be read by any … Continue reading →

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A pretty good argument for using ProPhoto RGB
as your working color space

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Brian Lawler

Photographers discovered 20 years ago that sRGB is a really bad color space for professional photography. So we all changed to Adobe RGB 1998. The reasons for doing so are important: Adobe RGB has a larger overall gamut, and conversion … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology, Uncategorized | Tagged Adobe RGB 1998, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Canon 6D, Christopher Campbell, color gamuts, ColorThink Pro, fine art photography, ProPhoto RGB | Leave a comment

Bavaria has castles! I have photos.

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Brian Lawler

In my home county in California we have a famous castle, one built by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in the early 20th century. Called Hearst Castle, it is a tourist mecca, visited annually by several million people. The castle … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes | Tagged Bavaria, Bavarian castles, Brian Lawler, castles, GigaPan, King Ludwig II, Munich, Neuschwanstein, Schloss Neuschwanstein | Leave a comment

Difference of opinion makes a horse race

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Brian Lawler

In a recent blog I introduced you to the rotating panoramic camera, a complex mechanical device dating from the early 20th century. The heart of that camera is the roll of film, moving at a constant speed through the camera, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Gadgets, Panoramic Photography, People, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Scanning, Software, Technology | Tagged bike race photography, Brian Lawler, Panoramic photography, photo-finish, photo-finish photography, race cameras, slit-scan photography | 2 Comments

Panoramic cameras and images, Part I

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Brian Lawler

The first true panoramic camera was patented by William J. Johnston in 1904. Century Camera Company brought that camera to market in 1905 as the Century Cirkut Camera. The company later became a part of the Eastman Kodak Company, which … Continue reading →

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The Bishop Peak Portrait Project – complete!

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Brian Lawler

Thank you all for your patience while I built the Bishop Peak Portrait Project, a series of thousands of photos of San Luis Obispo’s most prominent mountain. I started the project in November, 2015 with the construction of a weatherproof … Continue reading →

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Street Art provides an opportunity
for repositioned panoramas

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Brian Lawler

My wife and I traveled today to see a neighborhood in Munich that is famous for its street art. It’s called the Tumblingerstraße area, and it features some very sophisticated works of graffiti – much better than graffiti – that … Continue reading →

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