Do you really need to hire a photography guide when you travel? After all, you know how to do the research. You use Google Earth, Flickr, 500px, Photographer’s Ephemeris, PhotoPills, and rGPS (Really Good Photo Spots—an app with a curated list of great photo locations and directions for finding them). You leave home with a …
In this article I will explain what RAW and JPEG formats are, what the differences are and when you should use each format. And why I only ever use RAW to take photos, and always convert photos to Jpeg before issuing out to a client. If you are in a hurry Basically images captured in …
In my city, there are about 6 Walmarts, but I try my best to only go to one of them. I bet many of you are like that with certain stores. With my Walmart, I know where everything is, I can get in out and quickly, it seems cleaner, and overall, I just feel more …
If you’ve ever wondered how to photograph and edit day-to-night timelapses, fear not. While making day-to-night timelapses may seem overwhelmingly difficult, it’s not. The digital tools that we have today really simplify the workflow for creating them. This is not to say that creating day-to-night timelapses is totally effortless. There still is effort needed for …
Just how many types of blur are there? You might rightfully ask, and Lensbaby will respond “lots”. Their newest standalone lens, the Lensbaby Sol 45 was released today, and it takes creative blur to a whole new painterly level. I’ve had my hands on a beta model for several weeks now, and you can colour me …
If you’ve been around Improve Photography, or photography in general, for some time, you may have heard the term “high key” thrown around in reference to photographs. This article is an attempt to clarify this term, as well as hopefully provide some useful examples and suggestions to start attempting your own high key imagery. You …
“One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.” – Minor White “I like it, but what IS it?” That might be the kind of response you’d get from many people when you show them an abstract photograph. Perhaps it’s like jazz music, it has its true fans, others …
Summer vacations are wrapping up and school is beginning. It is also the time of year, people begin planning for the following years vacation. Since Utah has become a hotbed of vacationers, I figured I should impart a bit of photography knowledge to you wanderers who are visiting my state. Particularly I want to share …
Some photographers love being out in the field making images. Some photographers love being on their computer making their vision come to life through their editing. Some photographers even like the business side of it all. No photographers like dealing with storage. As photographers, we shoot thousands and thousands of images a year, or a …
Are there free photo editing programs out there that will fill in for Lightroom and Photoshop (or On1 and CaptureOne)? Many photographers who are just starting out, or who are doing photography as a hobby (a very expensive hobby) may not want to shell out hundreds of dollars for top-of-the-line photo editing software. Are there …
Recent updates to Adobe Lightroom came with at least one major benefit…additional camera RAW profiles. Now here’s the cool part…You can create your own camera RAW profiles! And this doesn’t just apply to Lightroom. If you avoid Lr like the plague and you prefer to stick with Adobe Camera RAW (ACR), good news: this applies …
In this article I will give you 9 tips on how to speed up working in Lightroom. Lightroom has gone through the hideously slow phase, and if you do all these things you will find, like I have, that editing in Lightroom is just fine these days. Do you want to speed up working in …