ShareIf you are interested in landscape photography I’m sure you have read lots of “how to improve…” type articles, which are all useful in their own way. But often to get things right you need to analyse what you are doing wrong. With this in mind here are 8 common mistakes that can spoil a [...]

ShareOne of the great joys of digital photography is the ability to quickly and simply produce large, stunning prints from the comfort of your own home, without the need for a darkroom and the associated chemistry. All to often though, some people become disillusioned with the quality of the prints. They may have color casts, [...]

SharePerspective control lenses are as vital to the architectural photographer as their cameras, the ability to control converging verticals in this particular field of photography is a given. For most of us, however, a PC lens is way beyond what we can justify paying for a lens that may not see much action. There is [...]

ShareIf you like taking photographs like I do, either for the pleasure of it or for the living, you must have dozens and dozens of thousands of pictures sitting somewhere in your computer. From experience, I know how difficult it is to maintain a reasonably good system in place that files, retrieves and safeguards them. [...]

Share‘The best laid plans of mice and men’ as the old adage goes – how many times have you set you camera up to take that spectacular scene in front of you only to realize it could look even better with a filter over your lens? You rummage around your camera bag only to remember [...]

ShareIf you have been looking to expand your photographic creativity or add a new wrinkle to your repertoire, something you may want to consider is double exposure photography (or multiple exposure photography). Double exposure photography has been around for virtually as long as film cameras have been around — it’s not hard to imagine some [...]

ShareMost photographers would agree that whenever possible getting the shot right in camera should be the goal.  However, there are going to be times when this is impossible or when mistakes are made. Perhaps there is a distracting element in a scene that just can’t be avoided, or the horizon is a bit crooked in [...]

ShareFrom the moment we’re old enough to play games with other children, we’re told that cheating is bad. The same principle follows us throughout the rest of our lives, but as we grow it takes on far greater implications and applies to so many more situations than a simple schoolyard game of hide-and-seek, hopefully exhibiting [...]

ShareWe’ve all been there. You’re clicking through the pages of a website like Light Stalking and you are bombarded with so many beautiful top quality images that you feel like giving up. A wave of pessimism comes over you as you convince yourself that you’ll never take a picture like that. Either that or you [...]

ShareIt is perhaps the bane of the photographers life, the dreaded image noise that has the ability to ruin the look of a well composed picture. Whilst modern cameras have much improved sensors and algorithms, there is still the distinct possibility of noise creeping in, not only in low light but also in incorrect exposures. [...]