RAW Workflow

Shooting RAW Street Photography with an Action Cam: 3 Creative Techniques Worth Stealing
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Shooting RAW Street Photography with an Action Cam: 3 Creative Techniques Worth Stealing

Most of my work lives inside Photoshop. I’ve built actions that compress hours of post-production into a single keystroke, and I’ll happily geek out about batch processing over a cup of coffee. But every now and then something lands in my feed that reminds me the best post-production starts before you ever open Lightroom. In this Pierre T. Lambert tutorial, he takes the DJI Osmo Action — a small, wide-angle action camera not typically associated with serious stills work — out onto city streets and challenges himself to make compelling photographs with it.

Tonal Separation in Forest and Waterfall Scenes: Lessons from William Patino's NZ Landscape Workflow
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Tonal Separation in Forest and Waterfall Scenes: Lessons from William Patino's NZ Landscape Workflow

There is a category of image that breaks my usual batch-processing brain completely: dense forest scenes with waterfalls, layered greens, and dappled light. In commercial work I can automate a lot. I built my first Photoshop action at 26 and have barely repeated a manual task since. But these organic, tonal-heavy nature shots demand something different. They demand judgment at the RAW stage that no action can substitute for. That is exactly what pulled me into this William Patino tutorial on NZ landscape photography workflow.