Using Backlighting to Enhance Your Images
Backlighting, as the name suggests, is when the lighting is behind or in back of your subject. It’s the lighting that can be seen in portraits as rim lighting, softly illuminating hair and clothing, and…
How to Create Local Adjustment Presets in Adobe Lightroom Classic
You probably understand by now that if you use Adobe Lightroom, using develop presets can save you loads of time during your post processing. Presets just make things easier and give you more consistent results…
A Guide to Understanding Exposure Value (EV)
Put simply, EV (Exposure Value) allows you to underexpose or overexpose your image. In this article, we will look at understanding EV and learn how to use it to its full advantage. However, in order…
How to Perfectly Price Your Photography Work
If you’re a photography hobbyist, there comes the time, inevitably, when you may want to decide on actually making a buck or two from your work. As your skill, experience and confidence all rise from…
A Guide to Understanding Focal Length
When people think about the important factors in photography, the exposure triangle of ISO, shutter speed and aperture is what usually springs to mind first. But almost as important is focal length, as this has…
In-Depth Review of the Band.it Lens Grip
Modern camera lenses are beautifully complex pieces of optical engineering. Even fully manual so-called “legacy” lenses are intricately constructed and deliver outstanding performance in terms of image quality. But even with all the benefits that…
What Is the Sunny 16 Rule All About in Photography?
A long time ago, when cameras did not yet have all the technology they now possess – and when practically everything was done manually – the Sunny 16 Rule was every photographer’s best friend and…
How To Create Realistic Mist in Photoshop
Photoshop is one powerful piece of software. Today we’ll look into creating some realistic mist and apply the effect to our image to give it a bit of a mysterious look and vibe. I’ll go…
How to Avoid Some of the Most Common Shutter Speed Mistakes
An integral part of exposure, shutter speed is easy to get wrong. While its counterparts – ISO and aperture – can be trickier, you’ll be surprised at how many opportunities there are to screw up…
How to Use a Light Meter
If you want correctly exposed images, you need to determine how bright a scene is. And whilst experienced photographers can often estimate a fairly accurate exposure, a light meter is a far more accurate way…
How to Create a Double Exposure Effect in Photoshop
Creating a multiple exposure photograph back in the film days was a matter of combining two or more exposures to create a unique image. The idea was to open the camera shutter multiple times to…
Why Should We Start Printing Our Photos Again?
The field of photography has undergone various changes over the past few decades. We’ve had Polaroids, disposable cameras, HDR, DSLRs and then the camera phones. What we do with the pictures that we take has…