Charles Joseph Photography

Adobe Photoshop is a mush have for all the photographer's these days. If you ask me, I can't imagine my editing workflow without it. Being said that, who doesn't like a smooth ,lightning fast and free flowing experience while working on their images, post the shoot to make them come to life. At times, you might start to feel that Photoshop isn't that responsive, its performs slower then usual, with a amount of lag, which makes you feel annoying while you are working on the edits. "I don't have a Pro Build Editing System" or else "I need a better System Config, in order to make it run more fast". If this is something that even you might be thinking, till an extend, you are right. But in this post, I will share some quite simple, yet very useful tips on how you can boost up your Photoshop performance simple bu just tweaking up your setting a bit. (I have used Adobe Photoshop CS6 for this post. All the setting will be pretty much the sa...

Tethered shooting is connecting a computer to the camera when you shoot so the pictures you take are downloaded to the computer rather than (or in addition) to a memory card. The camera and computer are connected by cable, hence tethering. Image used for Presentation Purpose Only. Source Google Images. WHY TETHER SHOOT The best thing about Tether shooting is that you get to watch the raw photographs on the computer. At the same time others present on the set, Make Up Artist, Fashion Stylist, Art Director or even your clients can view them too on a much larger screen rather than your camera’s LCD screen. T ethered capture view on Lightroom 5 Tether shooting also allows you to do fine adjustments to the photo’s you just shot like, Exposure, White Balance and Focus too, so that your next shoot would be as you desire. Charles Joseph viewing the photo and making fine adjustments to it.   SET UP & WORKFLOW I usually mount my camera on ...

Image used for Presentation Only You might be spending hours working on your edits, isn’t it ? How many hours do you take to get done with the Post Processing? People often ask me this question, and I’m pretty sure, many of you might also have come across the same question  many a times. Yes, It does takes hours to wrap up the editing workflow, and it’s not a simple task. So today, to save those extra hours that you spend sitting in front of the screen & working on the edits, I’d like to share this simple but effective way you can speed up your workflow in Lightroom. You’re done with the day's shoot, and are excited to start working on those images, you get home, start with transferring the files to your PC / Laptop, Import them in Lightroom and then, it’s a long wait….???? Things will be different now on! Here’s what I do when I’m back home, I start with Transferring the files to my Laptop, my Images are all RAW files, so by the t...