If you’ve ever been involved in creating content for a consuming audience, and you’ve been doing it for some time, you’ve probably come up against the following conundrum:

“My content is getting stale, but I’m afraid that if I shake it up too much I will lose my audience”.

You see, there’s kind of a paradox when it comes to creating regular content….

I mostly use Lightroom classic, and based on a poll I posted on my Facebook page earlier this year, most of you are the same. However, recently I’ve seen more and more people using the cloud version of Lightroom on YouTube and elsewhere. Because I don’t use it that much, I missed one of the new features in the latest release, that’s actually kind of cool.

Just a quick update. I’ve seen a few questions from Capture One users, as to whether or not Capture One works on Monterey. Well, we’ve finally gotten an official answer from the company, and the current version, 14.4.1 is officially supported on Monterey.

As long as I’ve been taking photographs, Autumn has been my favourite time of the year. I love both the colour and the light, and there’s something cosy about the impending dark days of winter that makes it a special time of year. Recently though, loss has turned my favourite time of the year into a very difficult one.

I recently decided to close my Patreon channel after several years of running the page. had produced some exclusive videos for Patreon, that because of my failure to grow my channel there, never really got seen by an audience, so I’m going to share some of them here now.

When DXO Photo Lab 5 was released a few weeks ago, it came as a pleasant surprise to many that they had finally decided to support Fuji cameras. Fujifilm support is currently in beta, but the software is capable of producing some really good results. However, to get the best quality, you need to jump through a few hoops first. In this article, I’ll talk you through how to get the best results and some of the options you need to consider.

Capture One have launched a new promotion on Pre-Orders of Capture One 22. The new version will be out in December and brings the much awaited Panorama stitching and HDR merging. Capture One are now offering discounted upgrades to those on 21 and earlier.

Adobe today released the newest version of Lightroom Classic. Lightroom Classic 11 is perhaps the biggest upgrade to the software in years, and as you have probably read already, it rebuilds what was previously the selective editing interface into a whole new masking architecture. The new Masking function is a pretty big deal and brings new features and capabilities to Lightroom that would have previously required you to use an external editor. There are some other updates too, including some under the hood optimisations that should improve the performance of the software.

In this video I show you how to change the direction and focus of lighting in a scene in Capture One using layers.

In addition to releasing a new version of DXO PhotoLab, the company has also released a new version of its film simulation software: Film Pack. This latest version introduces new films, cinematographic renderings, and Fujifilm in addition to support for X-Trans RAW files (Beta). It features a wide array of new effects as well as a new featured called Time Machine, which gives users a unique and interactive introduction to the history of film photography.

Today DXO labs launches the latest version of DXO PhotoLab and it contains several new and improved features. However the big one, and the one I never thought I would ever see, is that the software now supports FujiFilm X-Trans cameras. While this support is currently in beta, it finally brings the software to Fujifilm X-Series shooters.

I had been looking forward to Monday’s Apple event for quite some time, even before the event was actually scheduled. When the M1 was originally announced, like many others, I was impressed, but my immediate thought was, I wonder what pro machines will be capable of. Well, yesterday, I got my answer. And it was worth the wait.

DXO have just released an update to DXO PureRAW bringing the version number to 1.5 . This new release adds some more control over corrections, and support for more cameras and lenses.

Capture One has just announced the latest upgrade to Capture One 21. Version 14.4 is available now, and the biggest feature is that it brings back support for the Export tool tab.

Version 4.2 of the Nik Software suite has been released, and it fixes the bug that prevented the applications working with Capture One. This release also allows the suite to work with Photoshop running natively on an Apple Silicon Mac. Read on for more details.