UV Filters
I’ve had a lot of questions recently about UV (Ultra Violet) filters and whether they were worth the investment and use on lenses. In the following article I attempt to address the main points for and against and to help you decide whether they are something that you want to […]
Why should you photograph in RAW format instead of JPEG?
Why should you photograph in RAW format instead of JPEG? Hi there and Happy New Year! I thought I would start of this first tutorial for the New Year with an attempt to address a question that has been raised so often. What is RAW and is it better to […]
Travel Photography Tips
10 Top Travel Photography Tips I have recently been fortunate enough to spend some time traveling to various places in Europe, and thought I would put a few travel photography tips together to help you obtain better photographs when you next travel. These are the things that I feel are […]
Free Lightroom Presets
Hi and welcome! As it is so close to that time of year for giving and receiving, it is only fitting that I take this opportunity to thank you all for your support by giving you my free Lightroom presets for your own use. These 8 presets can easily be […]
Happy Thanksgiving
Just a quick post to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving today wherever you are in the world! As a special Thank You to all my readers, I have recently made up a ‘Photography Cheat Sheet’ – a small printable guide that sets out basic photography and manual camera settings information […]
How to Photograph Light Trails
The concept of taking photographs with light trails may seem a little tricky but actually is much more straightforward than you may think. In this article I will give you some tips to help capture more light trails in your images. Light trails are captured with long exposure photographs – where the shutter […]
Bracketing Images
Camera Exposure Bracketing So what is exposure bracketing and why do we need to do this? Well we saw in the last tutorial about dynamic range that your camera cannot record the extreme variations in light and dark that your eyes can see. You can click here to read that post. […]
Dynamic Range
What is ‘dynamic range’ and how does it affect our photographs? I think one of the most difficult issues most people face when taking photographs is how to record a scene as we see it with our eyes. Quite often the scene we are trying to photograph has an extreme range […]