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Are you someone who does not consider yourself a photographer, but need to improve your product photos? This 3 minute read was made for you! I’ll walk through a photo I took with my iPhone of camera lenses , and then show you how I edited the product photo in 8 steps. A Note about…
Getting the perfect exposure is a balancing act, and there are many ways to get there. The amount of light hitting your camera sensor is controlled with three settings: shutter speed, aperture and ISO. Each of these can independently change the brightness of your image, but they have secondary effects. By understanding the relationship between the three, you can…
You may have the best digital camera money can buy, but simple mistakes can often lead to disappointing results. Many people upgrading to a digital SLR camera (DSLR) for the first time find that their results don’t live up to expectations, and this is commonly due to basic errors. Having the best digital camera doesn’t mean…
Spend More Time Behind the Shutter, and Less Behind the Screen Although Lightroom is less well known than Photoshop, it is a must-have app for photographers. It fills a gap in the digital workflow in a way that nothing else does – a one-stop shop for collection, organization and development… which is probably why it…
In our last article, A Guide to Processing Your Photos in Lightroom Classic, we walked through all the steps of developing a photograph in Lightroom, from start to finish. If you’ve been following along, you now know what the Adobe Lightroom software is, how to get your images into Lightroom, organize them, and make them…
The journey your images take once they enter your digital workflow doesn’t end with organization – that is only the beginning. Making the most of your captures involves development, a process as old as photography itself. Any kind of digital post-production tends to make people think of Photoshop and professional retouchers taking what the lens…
Lightroom Presets are for everyone! Whether you are an amateur photographer or a pro, a non-photographer looking to create better images for your family, product, business, or blog, presets are for you! As I mentioned in my post, Making Lightroom Work for You: Processing Pictures in Bulk, a preset is exactly what it sounds like – a collection…
So, you have a fresh copy of Adobe Lightroom installed on your computer. Maybe you read my last article Lightroom: Getting Started with Your Digital Darkroom, maybe you’ve just heard good things, but there it is, on your desktop. **Please note: this article is geared towards using the Lightroom Classic desktop version and not the mobile…
If you think every home I walk into is ready for pictures, you are wroooooong. Of course, by the time I have worked my magic (by magic, I mean hard work and carefully crafted skills and talent) they all look photo ready. But if you want your home to have more visits, your pictures need to be…
In the distant past, photographs were captured on light-sensitive film. Photographers would spend hours in tiny rooms lit only by special red lights, turning exposed film into the images they had worked so hard to capture. Today, we don’t (generally!) use film, and much of the heavy lifting can be taken care of inside the…
Photographing any sunrise is an incredible opportunity; but to witness such beautiful coastal scenery, especially during an Easter Sunrise Service, is downright magical. We are blessed, here on the coast of North Carolina, to be able to attend Easter services right on the beach! Below you’ll find the camera & lens I used, along with…
Whether you’re an aspiring photographer, looking for inspiration, or just want to see beautiful images in your social media feed, these thirteen photographers produce images that are sure to make you pause and delight in the beauty of this world. Before I list these awesome photographers, I want to take a quick moment to mention…