Composition in Photography is the most valuable skill we can acquire. And one that I touched on in my previous article How to Develop a Photographic Eye and in more detail in How to Take Better Photographs using a Shared Visual Language. But the question of how to approach composition is often misunderstood. In forums…
Switching genres in Photography is not quite as simple as you might hope. In this post, I’m going to talk about the importance of being open to learning, retaining objectivity about your own skill levels as a photographer and the importance of being open to learning entirely new skills. Switching genres is a great way…
The art of dodging and burning using Adobe Lightroom has been made massively easier with the introduction of masking tools. In this post we’re going to cover dodging (lightening) and burning (darkening) using the tools available in Adobe Lightroom alone. There are other ways to go about this in Photoshop that I will write about…
In this post, I’m going to discuss using masks in Lightroom, how this feature stacks up against DxO PhotoLab and whether it is easier to use than masks in Photoshop. I must own up to only ever using the Radial and Linear Gradient tools with any frequency in Lightroom, preferring to use a combination of…
Happy New Year everyone! I love New Year because it’s a time for new beginnings, an opportunity to reset for the New Year and assess what’s worked (photography training) and perhaps more importantly, what hasn’t worked so well in the previous twelve months! YouTube In December I relaunched my YouTube channel successfully, producing twelve videos…
I Bought a New Camera Bag Recently, I took advantage of some amazing pre-Xmas discounts to consider the new range of F-Stop Mountain Photography Bags. This was something that has been oncoming for about six months but was rudely accelerated when my allegedly water-repellant bag of choice started to act more like a sponge than…
The best photo editing software for landscape photography is a subject that I think I am reasonably well placed to comment on, having suffered and benefited from multiple solutions over the course of my career. As ever, I only feature software I have good hands on experience of. The section entitled Best of the Rest…
About the Lecrin Valley Fire The Lecrin Valley Fire destroyed 3000 hectares of wild forest and cultivated land in the Lecrin Valley, Andalucia where I live. I must admit that finding myself in the middle of an actual natural disaster unfolding in real time added a discombobulating dollop of fear, uncertainty and confusion to my…