Banakas | Photography

Quick Tip: Here’s a quick tip to help you quickly “pick” or “reject” images from a shoot. In Lightroom you have a few keys that will help you quickly cull through your recent shoot. I feel these keys can actually shave minutes off of your post processing time. Keys to remember: “P” for “Picked” and   Read More …

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Everyone is looking for ways to improve your photography. But not everyone is ready for the advanced stuff. Here’s a list of a few articles I’ve written, that may help to improve your photography. 5 Ways to Improve Your Photography The Exposure Triangle – An Introduction to Digital Photography How To Photograph Fireworks How To   Read More …

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Everyone has their own special workflow they use to get images to all the different places that images go. There are programs out there that can help you upload your images to all the different places. Lightroom is probably one of the best (at least in my opinion, because that’s what I use). But even   Read More …

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What is Clipping In Lightroom the histogram will show a spike to the left if under-exposed and to the right when over-exposed. When the concentration is bunched up against the edge of the histogram, we know that significant detail has been lost in the image. This loss of detail is referred to as clipping. Tiny   Read More …

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I have just released my first calendar. Available now for purchase is a beautiful 12 month 2014 calendar. The calendar consists of images that I have taken from around the East Tennessee area over the past several years. Think of this as a hand-picked collection of some of my favorite images from around East Tennessee.   Read More …

This shot was taken using a NIKON D5000 at ISO 100, f/8, for 5.30sec Shutter Speed Shutter speed is the camera setting that controls amount of time that the shutter of your camera is open. An open shutter (or curtain) is what allows the light of your subject to be exposed to the sensors (or   Read More …

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How to: Remove Spots in Lightroom 5 Last night while editing this image, I found a new feature buried in the setting for Spot Removal that will help you remove Photoshop from your current spot removal workflow.

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The Fourth of July is just around the corner and now is a good time to write-up some tips for shooting your local fireworks display. What Should I Bring With Me? Tripod Do not leave home without your tripod. This is probably one of the most important tools that you need to capture fireworks shots.   Read More …

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