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Improve Your Studio Lighting With Flags: A Practical Guide
Lighting can be a complicated subject. From light sources and modifiers to strobe settings and color temperature, there are so many things to take...
Compensating for Something?
This is another long one, but if you’ve ever struggled to understand Exposure Value Compensation (or never used it), this might help. Put the...
The Problem With Taking a Break From Photography: Advice From a Pro
Have you ever felt fed up with photography? Disillusioned? Frustrated? Uninspired? Burnt out? If so, you are not alone in your feelings. Take it...
Postcards from Kenya
My work in Kenya didn’t go as planned. Story of my life, right? But I’m not referring to the fact that my first two days...
Fine Art Landscape Photography: The Complete Guide
If you enjoy photographing landscapes, you may have heard the term “fine art landscape photography,” which gets thrown around a lot in certain circles....
Postcards from Vancouver Island
Every year, off the coast of Vancouver Island, the place I call home, the herring spawn by the millions. The usually dark green water turns...
Don’t Have a Fast Lens? Here’s How to Capture Beautiful Background Blur
Blurry backgrounds are a powerful and popular tool for photographers. Blurring your background makes it easy to de-emphasize details in the scene that don’t...
A Word About Art-Making
One of the happy perils of posting your work online is the very real possibility of criticism. I suppose posting it anywhere exposes you,...
The Best Lightroom Presets in 2024
This article was updated in July 2024 with contributions from Ana Mireles and Jaymes Dempsey. I use Lightroom presets for a huge percentage of...