Andrew Barnes Photography

Category: Technique

  • Turning back Time: Changing the capture time of your images

    Most of the time I am pretty good at making sure my cameras are set to the correct time and date. However, on a recent overseas trip I completely forgot to adjust the time in my camera to take into account the 4.5 hours time difference between Sri Lanka and the UK until the end…

  • Adding a timestamp to your timelapse sequence – another way

    Sometimes I like to put a timestamp, or clock, on to my time-lapse sequences, just because it’s a fun and useful thing to be able to see the time elapsed as you are watching the video. Now, Lightroom used to have a great way of doing this with very little fuss and bother in the…

  • Lightroom Tip: Using Layout Image for custom crop overlays (sort of)

    I was taking a series of head shots of staff at a local school last week, and a couple of teachers asked if I could take some straightforward passport-style photos of them for various travel passes. Of course, no problem. As I was cropping their photos in Lightroom afterwards I had a little “Wouldn’t it be…

  • Shooting a summer sunset timelapse of Putney Bridge and the river Thames

    I have been experimenting with timelapse photography for a while now, with varying degrees of success. However, the one thing that I have never tried has been recording a transition from day to night. The significant technical challenges in successfully recording scenes from bright daylight to starlight has resulted in this shot being termed (perhaps…

  • Dealing with Purple-Green Defringing in Lightroom 4 and 5

    This is just a short piece to let you know of a very useful Lightroom tip that can help you with getting rid of purple-green fringing (Chromatic Aberration) in your images. Lightroom has a powerful CA removal tool in the Lens Corrections | Color panel, and I strongly suggest that you have the Remove Chromatic…