Overview Ignore for a moment the concept of Basic and Intermediate Photo Editing with Adobe Lightroom. When you come down to it, what we want from our images are actually quite a small number of qualities. These qualities can be achieved with almost any camera made in the last decade and, whisper it quietly, almost…
Autumn in Europe is the time the colours get vivid and the landscape looks its absolute best. Creating better Autumn photography is a matter of capturing those vivid hues. In this article we’re going to explore how that can easily be achieved. Video Polarising Filters The absolute best way to really make Autumn colours pop…
One Thing Leads To Another The apparently simple act of jettisoning forty years worth of accumulated camera bags set in motion a change that rippled through my entire relationship with photography. Moving to Spain When I moved to Spain full time three years ago I was aware that I would be giving up what had…
File under “guilty pleasures”, I’ve acquired a Canon EF 11-24mm after suffering many years of acute lens envy. I got mine in excellent condition, second-hand from MPB Photographic, at less than half the cost of new. So what is this lens for? Purpose The 11-24mm focal length is ultra wide, it’s the widest full frame…
When I published my original video, 5 Tips that Transformed my Landscape Photography on YouTube, covering 5 things that I considered key in raising the standard of my landscape photography I immediately started to worry that I’d missed some vital part of the jigsaw out. So here are another five things that I think are…
As a predominantly studio based Canon photographer, exposure compensation pretty much passed me by. I understood it would alter the way the camera metered a scene, but never quite grasped why I would use it when I could do the job manually, and in the studio that’s fine. Why bother? It was only when I…
Sometimes sharp focus front to back is not achievable straight out of the camera. Combining focus stacking and exposure blending to achieve vibrant realistic colours and sharp focus with Affinity Photo is much easier than you might think. The principles I explain here will work just as well in Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop and will deliver tack…