Show Notes
Part 2 of our Editing Night Photos series and it is time to get technical. One of the biggest mistakes I see people making when they open Photoshop actually happens before they even get to the program. It’s how we actually think about Photoshop and what it can do for our images. Photoshop is not actually used to “fix” our images. And especially as night photographers where there is not a lot of room for recovery of images when there is so little light available to record in the first pla...
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