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Photographer & Motion Graphics Designer from Dublin, Ireland Where to find me: https://linktr.ee/fxgeek

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Processing iPhone ProRAW files in DXO Film Pack for a Compact Film Camera Look โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography I saw a video a while ago from someone who was talking about using a cheap plastic compact film camera as an everyday carry to record just general snapshots. While most of us use our phones for that,โ€ฆ

New Blog Post: Processing iPhone ProRAW files in DXO Film Pack8 for a Compact Film Camera Look: blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/11...

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Lightroom Classic 15.0 Released โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography Adobe has just released the latest version of Lightroom Classic. The newest update, version 15.0 brings a set of new tools and workflow improvements aimed at image selection, organisation, andโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: Lightroom Classic 15.0 Released (along with the rest of the Lightroom & Photoshop Family) blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/10...

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DxO Announces FilmPack 8 with New Features and Photoshop Integration โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography DxO has announced the release of FilmPack 8 , the late st version of its film emulation software for macOS and Windows. The update brings a range of new tools designed to expand creative optionsโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: DxO Announces FilmPack 8 with New Features and Photoshop Integration blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/9/...

01.10.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Miniature Edinburgh โ€” THOMAS FITZGERALD PHOTOGRAPHY I was recently in the wonderful city of Edinburgh for a few days, and while I was there I was taking some photos of the cityscape from the view of the castle. Now, Iโ€™ll have a bigger photo essay onโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: Miniature Edinburgh

I was recently in the wonderful city of Edinburgh for a few days, and while I was there I was taking some photos of the cityscape from the castle, and I thought that they would make great faux miniature shots.

www.thomasfitzgerald.photography/photoblog/20...

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Canon R6II Cinematic Vlog in London | Thames Photography Walk
I was recently in London for a few days, so, as always, I took the opportunity to do some photography and video while I was there. I wandered along the Thames, taking in bridges, river traffic, andโ€ฆ Canon R6II Cinematic Vlog in London | Thames Photography Walk

My little London "Vlog" from earlier this year (seems like months ago now) where I spent some time walking by the Thames on Southbank youtu.be/KGAJPEAjiFI

18.09.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An Interesting Week for Cinema Cameras. Thoughts on the Canon C50, Nikon ZR and Fujifilm GFX Eterna (and iPhone 17Pro) โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography Last week was a very interesting week for those who want to shoot video professionally. We saw the launch of 3 cinema cameras. Well, four if you count the new iPhones. At IBC in the Netherlands,โ€ฆ

New Blog Post: "An Interesting Week for Cinema Cameras. Thoughts on the Canon C50, Nikon ZR and Fujifilm GFX Eterna (and iPhone 17Pro)" โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/9/...

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Thoughts on Liquid Glass from a designerโ€™s perspective. MacOS26 and iPad0S 26 interface design review. โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography With Appleโ€™s latest round of operating systems having now been released, I thought I would take a little time to share my thoughts on the big redesign that Apple announced back at WWDC. I know thisโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: "Thoughts on Liquid Glass from a designerโ€™s perspective. MacOS26 and iPad0S 26 interface design review" โ€” My slightly ridiculously long post on the new OS designs! blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/9/...

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There are no good eCommerce options for photographers โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography Iโ€™ve been doing some research lately on an idea I had to start selling some images directly to potential customers and clients. I used to do this before with Photoshelter, but I stopped using thatโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: There are no good eCommerce options for photographers โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/9/...

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Lightroom 14.5 Hidden Feature: Copy *ONLY* Changed Adjustments
When I first looked at Lightroom 14.5, I completely missed a handy new option in the copy and paste settings. You can now choose to copy only the adjustments youโ€™ve actually changed in an image. Itโ€™sโ€ฆ Lightroom 14.5 Hidden Feature: Copy *ONLY* Changed Adjustments

New Video: Lightroom 14.5 Hidden Feature: Copy *ONLY* Changed Adjustments www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4l...

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A feature of Lightroom 14.5 I almost missed ! You can now Copy and Paste only the adjustments you have changed in an image โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography When Adobe recently released Lightroom 14.5, thereโ€™s one tiny feature I almost missed. Well, I did miss it until today when I discovered it by accident. Itโ€™s one of those things thatโ€™s so small youโ€ฆ

A feature of Lightroom 14.5 I almost missed ! You can now Copy and Paste only the adjustments you have changed in an image. Read More: blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/9/...

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DXO PureRAW 5.3 Released - X-Trans Support now out of Beta โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography As well as DXO Photo Lab 9, DXO also released an update for PureRAW today that Fujifilm users will be happy with. The latest version brings X-Trans support out of beta, and more importantly, it nowโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: DXO PureRAW 5.3 Released - X-Trans Support now out of Beta blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/9/...

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DxO Releases PhotoLab 9 with AI Masking and Expanded Local Adjustments โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography DxO has released PhotoLab 9, the latest version of its RAW photo editor. The update adds AI-powered masking, expanded local adjustments for noise reduction and sharpening, workflow improvements suchโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: DxO Releases PhotoLab 9 with AI Masking and Expanded Local Adjustments blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/9/...

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Lightroom 14.5 Fixes a major problem with generative remove โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography Itโ€™s only been a short time since Adobe released Lightroom 14.4, but the next iteration is already out. Iโ€™m actually a little late on this - as it didnโ€™t get much fanfare when they launched it. Whileโ€ฆ

Adobe has updated Lightroom classic to 14.5 with a big fix for Generative Remove + some workflow updates. and new GPU powered preview generation. Full write-up on my blog:

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Lightroom 14.5 Update: Big Fix for Generative Remove
Adobe has just released Lightroom 14.5, only weeks after the last update, and while it might look like a smaller release, it includes some important changes. The biggest improvement is to Generativeโ€ฆ Lightroom 14.5 Update: Big Fix for Generative Remove

Lightroom 14.5 is here and it finally fixes one of the biggest problems with Generative Remove. I tested it out and made a video! โ€” hereโ€™s what changed: youtu.be/JW6qQgo-ZF4

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Enhancing Low-Quality Film Scans with this new Photoshop Beta Feature โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography One of the mildly frustrating things about shooting film in 2025, apart from the cost, is getting your negatives scanned. Most labs will scan your film at the time of development, but the results areโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: "Enhancing Low-Quality Film Scans with this new Photoshop Beta Feature"

blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/8/enhancing-low-quality-film-scans-with-this-new-photoshop-beta-feature

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How To Process Denoise in The Background in Lightroom 14.4
Lightroom 14.4 broke batch Denoise for many users, locking up the app and making it impossible to work while processing. But Iโ€™ve found a workaround! In this video, I show you how to batch processโ€ฆ How To Process Denoise in The Background in Lightroom 14.4

New Video: Lightroom 14.4 broke batch Denoise for many users, locking up the app and making it impossible to work while processing. But Iโ€™ve found a workaround! In this video, I show you how to batch process Denoise in the background

youtu.be/yy6OMjt9v7I

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AI is killing the Photography Internet (and the rest of the open internet too) โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography I know this may seem like a link bait headline, but in my opinion itโ€™s actually true, but itโ€™s not in the way you might think. Iโ€™m not talking about generative AI taking photographerโ€™s jobs orโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: "AI is killing the Photography Internet (and the rest of the open internet too)"
blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/7/...

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Here's a little video I made a few years ago about creative block, and its one of those things thats always relevant to an extent! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTEk...

13.07.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New YouTube video just dropped: A walk along the Thames with my Canon R6II โ€” photography, video, and London life along the river. ๐ŸŽฅ Watch here: youtu.be/KGAJPEAjiFI

11.07.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A London Photo Walk along the Thames โ€” THOMAS FITZGERALD PHOTOGRAPHY Back at the end of April I was in London for a few days, so as always I took the opportunity to get a few photos and some video while I was there. I didnโ€™t really go very far from our hotel inโ€ฆ

New Photo Essay - A London Photo Walk along the Thames - in addition to the video of this little photo jaunt I have a photo essay with high res versions of the photos too:

www.thomasfitzgerald.photography/photoblog/20...

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Photographing Lake Geneva & Lake Zurich โ€“ With a Canon R6II & iPhone 15 Pro www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEJB...

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If you prefer the old DNG based Lightroom Enhance to the 14.4 method, then here are two possible solutions. โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography I know Iโ€™ve been covering the topic of the changes Adobe made to the old โ€œenhanceโ€ workflow a lot lately, but there seems to be quite a bit of questions and confusion around the topic. When I firstโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: If you prefer the old DNG based Lightroom Enhance to the 14.4 method, then here are two possible solutions. blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/7/...

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The Best Way to Process Fujifilm X-Trans files in Lightroom in 2025 โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography Iโ€™ve been exploring the challenges of processing Fujifilm X-Trans files ever since the original X-Pro 1, sharing tips, sharpening methods, and even an eBook along the way. Historically, Lightroomโ€ฆ

New Blog Post: The Best Way to Process Fujifilm X-Trans files in Lightroom in 2025 โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/7/...

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Road Trip to Photograph the Worldโ€™s oldest working Lighthouse at Sunset
In early January we took a road trip to capture sunrise and sunset in the southeast of Ireland, starting with the worldโ€™s oldest working Lighthouse: Hook Lig... Road Trip to Photograph the Worldโ€™s oldest working Lighthouse at Sunset

Check out the photography road trip we took back in January to photograph a famous Irish Lighthouse at sunset.... youtu.be/5-74EPhe_QE

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Three Ways to Batch Process Denoise in Lightroom Classic 14.4
Lightroom Classic 14.4 changed denoising, raw details, and super resolution significantly. One common question is: "How do I batch process Denoise in the new... Three Ways to Batch Process Denoise in Lightroom Classic 14.4

New Video: "Three Ways to Batch Process Denoise in Lightroom Classic 14.4"

One of the questions I received since publishing a video on the new version of Lightroom last week was โ€œhow do you batch process Denoise in the new version?โ€ Well - here's the solution!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwR1...

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I predict that within the next 12-24 months at least one of the major ai companies will go bankrupt. With companies like xai burning through money, mid journey and others being sued left and right and companies like Microsoft saying thereโ€™s no real value from ai itโ€™s only a matter of time.

20.06.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lightroom 14.4 Released. Big Changes to Raw Details, Denoise and Super Resolution. โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography Adobe has released a new update to Lightroom Classic and the rest of the Lightroom and Photoshop family. In Lightroom Classic, there are a couple of significant changes in this release, including aโ€ฆ

In case you missed it - my blog post on the latest updates to Lightroom Classic (14.4) released earlier this week! blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/6/...

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I was wrong and Iโ€™m delighted about it! Fujifilm Announces the X-E5. โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography A year and a half ago, I wrote a piece about the Fujifilm X100VI and how it was (at the time) the last of the rangefinder style cameras. When I wrote that piece, Fuji had discontinued the XE-4โ€ฆ

New Blog Post: I was wrong and Iโ€™m delighted about it! Fujifilm Announces the X-E5.

blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/6/...

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A very โ€œBloggyโ€ Update โ€” Thomas Fitzgerald Photography Iโ€™ve been busy with travel and some other things, so I donโ€™t really have any good tips or tutorials, so I thought I would do a good old-fashioned blog update. Remember when those were a thing?โ€ฆ

New blog post: playing with photo cataloguing tools, tackling a huge photo backlog, and where AI fits into all of this (or doesnโ€™t!) blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2025/6/...

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Denoise and Super Resolution on the Same Image in Lightroom - New Method for 2025 Updates
A while ago, I shared a video on YouTube on how to do SuperResolution and Denoise on the same image using Lightroom and Photoshop. The trick was to do Denois... Denoise and Super Resolution on the Same Image in Lightroom - New Method for 2025 Updates

New Video: Denoise and Super Resolution on the Same Image in Lightroom - New Method for 2025 Updates after Adobe Broke my Workflow! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwsf...

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