Month: February 2021

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Luminar New User and Upgrade Valentine’s Promo

On By Mark DoddIn Expired Offers/PromotionsLeave a comment

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Skylum is showing the love for their new app by offering some great incentives to either purchase for the first time or upgrade from a previous version of Luminar to their latest product offering, LuminarAI.

For new LuminarAI customers:

  • LuminarAI (2 seats) for $89 ($10 off)
  • LuminarAI + Love Celebration Templates Collection for $98 ($20 off)
  • LuminarAI + Luminar X Membership + Love Celebration Templates Collection for $157 ($60 off)

For Luminar 3, Luminar 4 or Aurora HDR owners:

  • LuminarAI (2 seats) for $74 ($25 off)
  • LuminarAI (1 seat) for $64 ($15 off)

For Luminar 3, Luminar 4, Aurora HDR, or LuminarAI owners:

  • Add-ons up to 25% off
    • Adventure & Travel – $11 instead of $15
    • Love Celebration Templates Collection – $14 instead of $19
    • Tranquil Dawn Skies – $29 instead of $39
    • Red Skies Delight – $18 instead of $29
    • Colorful Coastal Palletes – $14 instead of $19
    • Luminar X Membership – $59/year instead of $99/year

Offers expire February 15th

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“Odyssey of Light” Webinar

On By Mark DoddIn General Blog PostLeave a comment

There is still time to sign up for this great yearly event. It is also the yearly fundraiser for the Maryland Photography Alliance. So go ahead and sign up and help support a great organization.

Costs is $35 and you get a $30 Gift card, so it is really just costing you $5 for a full day of great photography information

April 17, 2021 – 10:30 AM to 1:45 PM EST

I belong to a local camera club here in Maryland and it is one of the clubs that make up the Maryland Photography Alliance. Every year the MPA puts on a great conference as part of their yearly fundraiser activities.

This year they are going virtual with a Webinar and thus can handle a much larger audience. This has alway been a great event and I expect this year to be the same. Since it is open to the public and now can go world wide, please consider signing up.

Here are the details.

MPA’s Premier Educational Event of the Year! From the organization that brings you “Artist Spotlight”, MPA is incredibly pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for the 2021 “Odyssey of Light” Webinar.

Internationally known photographers Nevada Wier and David duChemin will inspire and motivate photographers of all levels. Both presentations will be recorded and made available only to ticket purchasers. Nevada will present “Creativity and Travel Photography”, and David will discuss how you can create more engaging images in his presentation “The Heart of the Photograph”.

Your price for the webinar is only $35, and through Nations Photo Lab, all ticket holders will receive a $30 Gift Card. This is an unbeatable value proposition! And if your photography club is a member of MPA, you will save money on the ticket price. Your club will communicate information to you on how to obtain the discount.

“Odyssey of Light” is MPA’s only fund raiser of the year and it supports all the great programs MPA does like “Artist Spotlight” and raising money for the Maryland Food Bank. We hope you will be able to attend this exciting webinar and help support MPA!

For more information and to order tickets: CLICK HERE

Have questions: mpa@mdphotoalliance.org

“Odyssey of Light” is being sponsored this year by Canon, Capital Photography Center, Fuji, Nations Photo Lab, Nikon, Pro Master, Photographic Society of America, Service Photo, Sony and Tamron.

Mount Taranaki (aka Mount Egmont), New Zealand

On By Mark DoddIn New ZealandLeave a comment

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As I have mentioned before I have been going through my catalog and looking at some of my older images. This time around I took at look at an older one that I have edited and seeing if it could be improved with the latest software.

Recently Topaz upgraded their DeNoise AI program to version 2.4 and it includes an improved Low Light model. Better detail preservation through improved AI architecture and more training time.

So I thought I would give it a try on a favorite Film Days scan of an image I had.

And I think it did a great job.

I particularly wanted to bring out the bridge and mountain in the background.

Below is a comparison of the before and after of that part of the image. Notice the sharpness and detail that are now shown in the red bridge. You can see all the cross bars.

And here is the final full image. I now it is hard to tell on this small image, but I’m loving the detail in the bridge, the trees on the left and even the right. And Mount Taranaki.

Mount Taranaki, West Coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Give it a try on your own image. And if you decide you want to purchase don’t forget to use the Topaz Coupon code of MDPDEAL to get 15% off the product.