I finally made the perfect pack of Lightroom presets on mobile…

Which is to say, they are made for mobile, action cams, and small sensor cameras. Not that they won’t work on a desktop. In fact, they even include a Capture One styles pack for mobile photos and a LUT pack to edit mobile videos. Lightroom presets on mobile are easy and they transform the photos I take on small mobile cameras.

It’s called Moby and it’s sweet. I’ve been planning this pack for while. Any of my presets work in the Lightroom Mobile app. But the low-quality nature, pre-processed look, and high compression of mobile photos means that many preset we normally use for Raw like Filmist or Natural HDR we’re just too much on mobile photos. That means I just used a few favorites.

So I built a Lightroom mobile presets pack, Capture One style Pack, and LUT pack designed to manage the color, contrast, and details that Mobile gives you, and create the best possible result.

Moby is not an expensive pack, in fact, you can get these mobile presets for free as a bonus when you buy any other pack on the site. And as always, these are guaranteed because they are well made and I know you will like them.

Get Moby here

Here’s a video I made about using Moby Mobile Presets

The cool thing is that by making a presets and styles pack design around mobile style files is that if you’re using a Phone, an actions cam, or editing photos from an old point and shoot. Even shooting Raw on a mobile. The recipes on mobile are going to make that look better, less plastic, and more refined. I’ll show you what I mean.

These may seem unimportant. But I am loving these styles.

I know this mobile presets collection won’t be my best seller. Most of you come here for my pro presets and actions.

But I’ve been feeling a lack. We all have a ton of mobile content and we usually do mediocre edits because it’s just not that easy or constant to do it right.

My making a pack of presets and LUTS dedicated to the kind of files mobile and compact camera JPEG type photos pro-grade edits on mobile photography get so much easier. I can edit a photo taken on mobile with that same filmic, great color look I do I pro-RAW files from my Sony or Fuji camera.

We can even shoot RAW of mobiles now, and this pack also yields great results on the tiny sensor RAW files they are giving us.

To top it all off, I can edit videos I take on my mobile with the Moby LUTS and get the same rich looks in resolve or even mobile video editors that support LUTS like VN video editor.

I’ve never been able to make mobile phone edits look so close to the results I’m getting from my bigger cameras. The goal for me is not to replace those. It’s just to keep improving on every front.

Enjoy these – Gavin Seim

Zones for digital are the easiest way to understand shadow.

It’s because Zones let you see tone like nothing else and when you see tone for real it will blow you away. Today I will simply the darkest zones!

I’ve taught using the Zone system for years and many of you have learned Zones from my Exposed Workshop. But today’s video marks a new series in Zones. They are so easy to use and powerful, so we’re going to look at each area of Zones and use them to help us understand shadow and find the light.

You can also watch this on my channel and please subscribe.

Free Mobile screen and Desktop Zone scale…

As promised in the video, I also made you these to help you see and edit Zones as I do, check out Lumist 2 luminosity Zone actions.

DOWNLOAD both Zone helper gudies

If you’re still feeling confused leave a comment on the video or here on the blog and I’ll try to take it up in our next Zone study chapter. Remember, Zone 0 and 1 are your allies, not your enemies. Put them to work and they will make your photography better. Hunt shadows, find the light.

This mobile zone guide is made to fit on a mobile screen

You can quickly reference it all the Zones and how they relate to the histogram. You can save this one, but the download I linked above has a higher quality file and also includes my desktop Zone scale that you can easily drag on top of your photo in Photoshop or Affinity and review the Zones with more detail.

Oh and don’t forget to join our Shadow Hunters group on Facebook.  Have fun. Gavin Seim

Oh and don’t forget to join our Shadow Hunters group on Facebook.

What if you knew the reasons why ANY  photo fails technically?
Then what if we made that stuff easy?

Bear with me and watch because I’ve taught this for a decade, but it’s the first time I’ve made a video on it and I’m going to be detailed. You may want to watch this in full-screen HD on my channel because it’s loaded.

I’m going to show you the 6 keys to amazing image quality that are totally game-changing when you combine them, and when they become second nature you go next level in your photography.

In the video, I also mention the Exposed Workshop and if you want to play with some detail processing presets grab by Filmist FREE pack here.

Yes, the lens and the sensor and your hand’s matter…

That razor-sharp look is not as elusive as you think and getting the most expensive gear does not give you the best photo!

There are those who say the technology is not important with the automated cameras. The results usually show that is not true. Then there are those that focus so much on pixel peeing and technical aspects that the photo lack any heart.

This is yet another area that no one seems to be talking about in the era of digital and AI. But it’s no less important today than it was 50 years ago.

I actually wrote this as an article years ago in the Pro Photo Show days. Over the past decade, I’ve seen it work and become even more confident in these keys to the point where they are second nature. That has allowed me to have the technical aspects in my work while focusing more and more on the art. It’s going to do the same for you if you put these six secrets of photography to work.

Gavin Seim

Naked Darkroom is my latest pack of real texture and border and here’s’ how I use them.

These work for Photoshop, Affinity and users of layer based editors.

These are a complete overlays pack because the textures are even better and the new darkroom film based borders let you use real edge from negatives, wet and dry plates and integrate those into your finished prints and web files.

I’m including a longer workshop with the Naked Darkroom download, but in this video I want to show you the 101 of how to use textures and borders and how they can improve the final details and artistic character  of any kind of photography.

Gavin Seim

The right edit is hard sometimes, isn’t it?

Some edits just work and others you can’t seem to get. It happens!

So in this week’s video, I took a photo that Paul sent me that was having trouble with. A very tough file with a lot of highlights and a lot of shadows. We’re going to use Photoshop, Camera Raw with Silver 4 and BlackRoom actions and find a mix that works. But no matter what you edit with, these tips will work for you.

Watch the video in 4K on my channel. Whatever tool you favor. Actions, presets, a plugin, your on inventions. The key is to stay open on your edit. Try new things always. That’s the basis of how I create editing kits and how I try to keep my own photos fresh.

Grab Blackroom actions and try your hard edits.
There’s a double sale on BlackRoom actions now when you enter the Spring promo code: SPR22. It’s a huge saving and you can also use this code for anything in the store.

RECAP: 3 steps to a fast effective edit in any software:

• 1: Try basic classic edits, presets I know I like, actions, and common tweaks, and fulfill my visualization.
• 2: Do more advanced edits, add effects, reset and try again. Usually, by the 3rd try, the edit will start to draw out.
• 3. If it’s not working ask myself if it’s the editor a lack in my image. If it’s not critical, move and mark it to try again later when I have new inspiration.

So let’s take this rather difficult shot and make it work… Gavin Seim