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Unlocked: How to Create Intersect Masks in DxO PhotoLab 9

In this video, Don from DXFlow explains how to emulate the intersect behaviour you find in Lightroom by using the Mask/Submask feature in Photolab 9. Pretty sure I’ve done this by accident a couple of times, but it’s great to see it properly codified and explained here.

I Made a 100 Year Old Camera Digital for $40

Here’s a fun project. I guess it’s a bit disingenuous to say that it’s a camera, since it’s using a scanner to create images, but I must admit, I really like the images it produced.

The 16-35 Lens Mistakes I See All Photographers Do

There are a lot of content-creators turned landscape photographers on YouTube, but precious few landscape photographers turned content creators and Mads Peter Iversen is definitely in the latter category. Top advice in here.

What’s The Difference Between RAW and Compressed RAW on Modern Mirrorless Cameras?

If you’ve been shooting compressed RAW in your camera (as I have) then the results of James’ testing might be of interest and may make you reconsider that decision.

Pin-Sharp Macro Photos – How to Achieve Perfect Sharpness

Heads-up, this video is in German, but the excellent advice contained within makes the auto-dubbing worth it. And if you’re German, then obviously you’ll be wondering why the lips don’t match the words for everyone else.

The Easy Way to Find Hyperfocal Distance

Solid explainer on hyperfocal distance and how to dial it in correctly on your camera.

Editing Nebulae with Affinity

This is actually a five year old video, but the technique remains just as valid and the tools are, of course, now completely free because Affinity Photo is now just Affinity Canva. This is a proper long-form tutorial, using a photo taken on an astronomy camera, but if you’re serious about your astro there’s some solid gold advice in here with info for DSLR users too.

How to Shoot Time-Lapse Photography

Matthew Vandeputte is the GOAT when it comes to timelapses – he has his own channel on YouTube (though not very active recently) but this is a tutorial video shot on behalf of a UK camera retailer. All the basics covered in here.

Why I Had to Disqualify This Winning Photo

Duade Paton is always excellent value on YouTube and there’s some really solid advice in this video. He’s talking about entries to photo competitions, but the advice is just as valid away from competitions, particularly the bit about denoising.

How Metering Modes Change Your Photos – And When to Use Each One

Not seen Jimmy West’s content before, but this is a great little explainer video breaking down the most common metering modes, how they work, what the point of them is and when you should use them.

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