How to Create that Post Apocalypse Look

At the moment, we’re in lockdown and we’re allowed to go out once a day for a piece of exercise. So, I went out on Tuesday, which was the first day we were under lockdown, for a walk. And, as ever, my camera goes with me everywhere. And my idea was to photograph empty streets, no people around, shuttered up shops, and that sort of thing.

When I got home, I decided I wanted to post-process them to give them that sort of post apocalyptic look, that sort of grungy, dirty type of look that is appropriate for the present situation. And I thought I’d just share with you how I went about that.

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Virtual Photography Meetup

So at the moment people are becoming housebound. They’re being told to work from home. If you’re in the at-risk group, you can’t go out. So this morning I held a virtual coffee morning online and it went down an absolute storm. People loved it, it was a chance to chat even if you can’t get out and about… So I thought I could do the same for us photographers.

Coronavirus & How To Keep Your Photography Fresh

With many countries recommending social distancing or not going out, what can we do during this testing time to keep out photography fresh?

Noise Reduction in Lightroom & Photoshop – Made Simple

Today, I was going to be talking to you about automating noise reduction in Lightroom, but then it occurred to me that maybe some of you aren’t fully familiar with Lightroom’s noise reduction tools. So I thought I’d make a video on how to do noise reduction, and then we’ll come back to the automation of that in another video. I’m going to show you in Lightroom, but it also works in Photoshop. It’s exactly the same process.