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Mike McNamee

Mike McNamee is a Graduate Mechanical Engineer with 25 years of industrial experience and a Fellow of both the Royal Photographic Society and the British Professional Photographers Association. His career combines engineering, scientific imaging, photography and digital imaging technology, giving him a particularly strong technical understanding of the photographic process.

Mike has won numerous national and international awards, including the Struers International Award for his work in digital image analysis. His photography has been published and used worldwide in encyclopaedias, textbooks, scientific journals, calendars, magazines, newspapers and CD covers.

He has been involved with digital imaging since its early development and has lectured throughout Europe and America on specialised photographic and imaging techniques. He has also authored numerous reports, books, scientific papers and patents, and spent 15 years serving on the British Standards Committee for Engineering Ceramics as an Imaging Specialist.

Mike has extensive experience in photography education and digital imaging, having developed the MousePushers digital imaging courses through Pixelmix Digital Training and taught photography and digital imaging at Priestley College in Warrington. He was previously Editor of Digital Photographer and Creative Imaging and is currently Editor of Professional Imagemaker, the magazine of The Societies of Photographers. His ongoing work includes colour management and digital workflow, as well as the practical application of imaging technology in photography.



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What Do Vibrance and Saturation Really Do? A Colour Analysis

By Mike McNamee The difference between Vibrance and Saturation in Lightroom is often explained in simple terms: saturation makes all...

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Review: Vertical Churches of the World by Richard Silver

Panoramas have been around for almost as long as photography, going all the way back to the moving slit cameras...

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Best Computer and Monitor Setup for Photo Editing

A good computer is an essential part of a modern photography workflow, but choosing the right system isn’t simply a...

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Acrobat Colour Management: Why PDF Colours Can Look Wrong

If you work with photography and print, there are few things more likely to produce a cold sweat than a...

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Nik Collection for Photographers: What the DxO Plugins Do

There are plenty of photo-editing tools that promise to transform your images. The challenge is knowing which ones will actually...

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AI and Photography: When Does an AI Image Stop Being a Photograph?

When does a photograph stop being a photograph? It is a question that has become much harder to answer since...

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Adobe Firefly for Photographers: What You Can Actually Use It For

Artificial intelligence has moved from being an interesting experiment to becoming part of the everyday toolkit for photographers and other...

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How to Choose Fine Art Paper for Photography: A Photographer’s Guide

A photograph doesn’t necessarily finish when you press the shutter. For many photographers, the final expression of an image is...

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How to Be More Creative in Photography: Developing Better Ideas

With Mike McNamee & Kris Anderson Most photographers eventually reach a frustrating point where they know how to make a...

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How to Choose Paper for Black and White Photography

There is a surprisingly simple answer to the question of which paper is best for black and white photography: there...