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The secret of sharp photos on Facebook: optimal image size, compression and sharpening tested

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Being part of many photographers groups on Facebook, I often see that some pictures of renowned photographers appear soft on Facebook. ‘

It’s impossible that HE posted a soft picture’ – I tell myself.

But indeed, it happened to me many times before that my a photo I uploaded to Facebook looked soft.

My face when I realised this:  But then how come there are photographers whose photos are always super sharp on Facebook? What do they know that I don’t?

Surely, the uploaded image size and sharpening must have an effect on this…

But is there anything else?

So I took my time, and conducted a test.Read more →

Milky Way and Star Photography Guide: from camera settings to post-processing

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So many people think that photographing the Milky Way is extremely difficult and requires expensive gear.

That’s just simply NOT true!

In this guide, I will show you how astro landscape photography is done, from camera settings to post-processing in Lightroom, and you’ll say: ‘this is really easy!’

And you really don’t need fancy equipments to capture the stars on your pictures…

Let’s get into it! Read more →

Advanced sharpening in Adobe Lightroom (make the images pop!)

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My guests often ask me: ‘how do you make your images pop?’

Of course, there’s no single answer for this, but I know that SHARPNESS plays a big role in that. A photograph sharpened the right way always pops out.

Many people don’t know that every photo needs to be resharpened every time its size is changed.

Also, many don’t know that in Lightroom it’s super easy to get sharpness right.

I’ll show you my method for sharpening RAW files in Lightroom.

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How to capture lighttrails on night city photos – using stacking technique

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The coolest feature of any great night cityscape photo is the lighttrails of cars and ships.

What are lighttrails? They are caused by the head and taillights of cars and ships and are caused by long exposures that are several seconds long.

I’ll show you in this post the exact technique of long lighttrails from setting up the camera to post-processing.

And it’s not just taking a long exposure: you can stack multiple long exposures to have longer light-streaks!Read more →

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