Actually Good Photography Videos You May Have Misssed

Just thought I’d share some content that I found educational and entertaining over on YouTube, including fixing contrast in black and white photographs and a pretty shocking AI scam targeted at photographers.

Fixing Tricky Concert Lighting with Lightroom

Really excellent video here from Darkroom Zen breaking down how he fixes some horrendous purple/magenta colour cast on a concert photo he shot. If you’ve ever wondered what the calibration sliders do, he puts them to excellent use in this video.

Perfect Exposure with a Gray Card

I really like Markus’s content – he’s a bit out there but really knows his stuff and has some of the best explainers for photography and video. In this one he shows you a neat trick for getting the right exposure (not colour!) for your particular camera.

Fixing Contrast in Black and White Photos

Great video by Jeff Ascough walking you through fixing contrast in black and white photographs without using the contrast slider. I’d also like to point out that he’s not really touching the gimmicky AI masks – just an old-fashioned brush for far more natural results.

Using Lightroom’s Variance Slider to Fix Polarising Filter Issues

Christian’s video got a lot of interest when it came out a few weeks ago and is definitely the best of the explainers for this using this new tool in Lightroom to fix things like problem skies and skin tones.

Better City Photography

Admittedly I clicked on this video because Jamie Windsor lives in my old adopted hometown of Bath in the UK (I lived there for 20 years) and it’s always nice seeing the old place. But, there’s some great tips in here too – most of which are nothing at all to do with the technical aspects of photography.

Another AI Scam Targeted at Photographers

Great find here by Edward Thompson who turned up these two ‘opportunities’ on Linked-In where photographers are being head-hunted to train AI. What he doesn’t pick up on, however, is the fact that this trap is not just about selling out the soul of photography, but a full-on scam in itself. If you watch the video, you basically give away the family silver during the induction process where you spend 20 minutes divulging your techniques. I would be shocked to the core if either of these companies actually employed any photographers at all after they’d gone through the ‘induction’.