Author: Alik Griffin

3 Reasons Why You Should Stop Using Apple Software

As a Landscape Photographer and a professional Editor, I encounter many people who still venture out to learn Apple professional products. Some will ask me, “Should I learn Final Cut X?” or “Should I use Aperture or Lightroom?”
Best Accessories For The Sony A7, A7r, A7s

Over the past year of using the Sony A7r, I’ve encountered numerous impressive accessories for the A7, A7r, and A7s that have either caught my eye or proven to be essential.
First Full Frame Curved Sensor

Sony has released an image of the first full-frame curved sensor (taken with the worst camera in the world). Likely for the Sony RX2.
Samsung Pro U3 SD Memory Card Review

The Samsung Pro U3 is a great card for the price. It performs about the same as the Sandisk Extreme Plus. Where as the Samsung Pro+ performs close to the Sandisk Extreme Pro. This makes the Samsung card great for cameras that don’t demand a super fast memory card, or cameras that are more video…
New Release: Malibu Gold

This Landscape Photo was taken near the Malibu Pier in Malibu California. It was an extremely high tide so I was able to capture the waves interacting with the foreground rock formation. The lighting and time of day made the rock look almost like gold.
Why You Should Avoid Shooting With Small Apertures

Typically as photographers, we are taught, the smaller the aperture the sharper and crisper your image is going to be. You ever go online and look at an awesome photo’s EXIF data? You ever notice almost all the landscape and hdr photos you see will be shot at f16 or higher? If you’re always shooting high…
Fukuoka Airport HDR Photo

This was from my last moments in Japan at the Fukuoka Airport. The photography gods finally appeared at the end there and gave me one last blessing. We ate dinner in a restaurant when the sun lit the sky. Luckily, my Sony A7r wasn’t packed away with the rest of my gear.
A Better Way To Create Luminosity Masks

I see a lot of techniques floating around the interwebs on how to practice the ancient art of Luminosity Masks for landscape photography in Photoshop. I’m pretty sure most of these techniques date back to the 1990s before layer masks existed. Adobe has recently, in the last ten or twenty years, made a lot of…
Instantly Remove Color Cast In Photoshop

Manually adjusting your color balance in Photoshop is never fun. There are several tricks, some dating back to almost centuries ago. Some more modern.Here is a technique that's fun and super easy to do.
How To Upgrade Your Mac Pro Graphics Card

I’ve recently had to make the switch over to Premiere CC on my home Mac Pro, but my old 2009 tower didn’t cut it. You need a Nvidea GPU with at least 1GB of video ram to use its Mercury Playback Engine. So in order to get more life out of my old Mac Pro I upgraded its graphics card.…