One of the challenges of taking low light landscape photos during the golden hour or the blue hour is mastering …
How To Use The Blue Hour In Photography
In our last article we looked at the reasons why the golden hour is such a productive time for photographers. …
How To Use The Golden Hour In Photography
Most photographers are aware that the golden hour is one of the best times to take photos. But what exactly …
Five Strategies For Coping With Hard Light In Photography
Photographers often like to avoid the hard light found in the middle of a sunny day. There’s a good reason …
How To Use Soft Light In Photography
Soft light in photography is a gift from nature that helps you create interesting images using high quality light. In …
How To Fade Presets With The Opal Lightroom Plugin
The Opal Lightroom plugin is the best tool I’ve seen for fading Develop Presets in Lightroom. But before we look …
How To Photograph People In India
During our recent photo tour to Rajasthan in India I concentrated on photographing people rather than landscapes or architecture. It …
How To Find Duplicate Images In Lightroom
Last week I received an interesting question from a reader who asked “Is there any way to find duplicate images …
How To Photograph Siblings At Home
Capturing the special bond between siblings can be challenging, but is so worthwhile. Looking back, photographs with a brother or …
Six Lightroom Hidden Tricks You (Probably) Didn’t Know
No matter how well you know your way around Lightroom there always seems to be more to learn. There are …
How To Protect Your Cameras And Lenses From Theft And Register With Lenstag
I’ve never lost any camera equipment or had it stolen but I can imagine that it’s an unpleasant experience. This …
2018 Readers’ Survey Results
Every year or so I ask my newsletter subscribers to take part in a survey. It’s a little bit of …
How To Get Great Newborn Baby Photos At Home
Photographing newborns is such a privilege, and each time I find it totally life-affirming. Years of experience have given me …
Why Does Lightroom Take Up So Much Space? (Part 2)
In our previous article Why Does Lightroom Take Up So Much Space? (Part 1) I explained why upgrading to Lightroom …
Why Does Lightroom Take Up So Much Space? (Part 1)
Have you upgraded to Lightroom Classic CC yet? If the answer is yes, you may also have noticed a big …
How To Upgrade To Lightroom Classic CC
Now that Adobe is no longer developing Lightroom 6 users of older versions of the software have to upgrade to …
Our Ten Most Popular Photography Tutorials in 2017
As 2017 draws to a close I thought I’d share with you the most popular photography tutorials published on The …
Our Ten Most Popular Lightroom Tutorials in 2017
As we get to the end of 2017 I thought it would be interesting to share with you our ten …
My Favorite Photos From 2017
At the end of every year I go through the images I made in the last 12 months and pick …
Two Expert Composition Tips For Photographers
One of the best ways to get some expert composition tips is to analyze the work of master photographers. There …