Behind the Scenes of a Professional Photoshoot

After many, many years as a photographer, I’m still fascinated by magic that happens behind the camera of every breathtaking shot. This is uniquely possible when all the elements come together in harmony – the light, camera, lens, cables, equipment, with the beauty in...

Marco Olivotto Color Seminars at Fespa Munich 2014

These videos deal with color management and correction in textile printing. However we do think that they may be very interesting for a generic audience. These are five seminars delivered in Germany at FESPA Digital 2014 for a total of two-and-a-half hours. FESPA is a...

VitaminBW: a Steady Path to Black-and-White

An interesting article on Black&White Techniques from moonphotoshop.com, the new website of Marco Olivotto   Black-and-white is pleasure and pain for any photographer – even those who don’t actually use it. About six months ago I stumbled into an interesting...

ALCE and 360° panoramic images

Two suggestion for ALCE processing of equirectangular images to be used building 360 degree panoramas.   By Davide Barranca   Equirectangular images, the ones used to build those beautiful, immersive, 360 degrees panoramas, may require some extra attention...

In-a-Gamma-da-Vida

A false profile (that is, a profile with a non-standard gamma value) can be expressed as pencil-drawn curves generated by Photoshop. While this has little practical relevance, it allows us to understand what assigning a false profile actually does to an image by...