Younes Bounhar Photography

Moody Coast

So here I am playing catch-up with my keywording, yet I just can’t help myself but try and play around with some of my unprocessed shots (hours of keyword entry isn’t exactly my definition of fun!). As I mentioned in a recent post, I am also starting to discover Lightroom 2.5. The program doesn’t really do much for me, except for the cataloging and keywording functions which are quite a bit more advanced than bridge. In any case, some of the cool things in LR are the Black and white presets. This is a shot that dates back to almost two years ago, in the Olympic coast of Washington State in Northwestern US. It was quite a dark and grey evening, which made for some moody images of the legendary Ruby Beach. I thought the Selenium look worked quite well with this shot. I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Posted on November 22nd, 2009 in Post-processing techniques Travel | 4 Comments »

Balancing Act

After a week of non-technical posts, I am going to spend most of this week discussing, well, mostly technical aspects of photography (sorry Jenn, you know I just can’t resist it). Did you really expect anything different? I mean come on, I am a scientist, hardcore geek, a nerd. And for the record, I fully embrace my nerditude, so your efforts to deride it will be vain, ha! I also expect that someday geeks will rule the world, but I digress…

One of the most overlooked parameter in digital photography has to be White Balance (I mean with a name like that are you really surprised!). Most people simply set their camera to Auto WB and just leave it at that. In fact one of the main reasons I shoot in RAW is to have the flexibility to modify the WB in post-processing. Granted RAW gives you other things as well, but WB flexibility is high up on my list. Most of you already know this  (I actually found out there are people who read this blog, so I don’t have to pretend anymore, really pumped!), so I won’t dwell on this. Instead, I would like to focus on a little trick that makes WB even more invaluable.

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Posted on April 28th, 2009 in Photography Tips Post-processing techniques | 7 Comments »

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