Author: Moldovean Vlad

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Make your own wearable RGB Light

2 December, 20242 December, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

I think by now we are all familiar with the term practical light. But have ever wanted to have a light in frame attached to your model in your creative

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Easy way to check for color shifting in your lights

28 October, 202428 October, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

Is your white light actually white? Or does it have a green tint? So imagine this: You got your first LED light…. or third… it’s a nice one, it has

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IS THE FOCUSING TAB A SECRET OF LEICA SHOOTERS?

18 July, 202418 July, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

I never had a lens with a focusing tab and I wanted to give it a try. Today, out of curiosity, I designed and 3D-printed a focusing tab for my

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If your Helios doesn’t have swirly bokeh, this might be the cause.

16 May, 202417 May, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

This article is not just for my fellow Nikon DSLR users but for all the lens nerds out there! I know there aren’t many DSLR users left around but let’s

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COLOR RESPONSE CURVES: A New Way to emulate the colors of film in Lightroom

5 May, 202413 June, 2026 by Vlad Moldovean

I might have stumbled upon something huge by mistake because Color Response Curves take emulating film colors to a whole new level All this time, we were all using presets

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The rabbit hole of adding grain to digital photos gets even deeper (part 2)

13 March, 20241 October, 2025 by Vlad Moldovean

It has been a bit over a year since my first article about film grain. And I thought that that was it and that I’d dug more in-depth than most

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User-Centric Lightroom Presets: Designing Styles for a Seamless and Enjoyable User Experience

14 January, 202416 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

There is a huge difference between saving all your settings when you are done with an image and carefully crafting a preset that will be useful for others. Our shooting

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Craft stunning Anamorphic Bokeh with Custom Lens Inserts.

4 January, 202426 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

This article strives to be the ultimate design guide on modifying your spherical lens to produce the type of anamorphic boke you can see in the movies. And because I’m

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If you use vintage lenses you have to try this

21 July, 20231 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

I’ll start this article by saying, I love shooting vintage glass for the character it can imprint on my images. I love the swirly bokeh, the bloom, and the flares

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Hot to use masks to take Lightroom Grain to the next level

26 June, 202311 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

I will preface this by saying that I am not an Adobe fanboy and if this is not clear, I am not paid to praise the Lightroom Classic team in

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