At the end of 2024, I had a brief but cathartic flirtation with film photography again. There was a very personal reason for this, when my father passed away, he left an old Minolta X300. This was the same camera model that I had used in my early days of photography.
I had shot film before, however, it has been at least 20 years since I had shot a roll of film, and so this is more about what I had forgotten than new things that I learned.
Author: Jason Row
Jason has more than 35 years of experience as a professional photographer, videographer and stock shooter. You can get to know him better here.
For some, poring over Lightroom for hours on end to create the perfect edit, is the only way to go. For others, the mere thought of sitting down at a computer and fashioning raws into something more usable is at best an inspiration for procrastination and at worst something to avoid all together.
Lightroom, particularly if you do not use it much, can be a daunting and overwhelming program. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If you adhere to the 1/99% rule you will soon find yourself getting great shots with minimal effort. The 1/99% rule suggests that you use 1% of the features, 99% of the time. That is something that is perfectly possible with Lightroom. Today we are going to tell you how.
If as a beginner you are making lots of mistakes, then the chances are you are shooting often and learning lots. Today we are going to look at why you should embrace your photography fails.
If you have followed my ramblings for a while here at Light Stalking, you will know there is one technique that I really like as a way to improve creativity. That technique is to restrict yourself. That can be done in different ways. Using a single prime lens is one that I talked about recently. […]
There is so much in urban areas that lends itself to black and white. Amble areas of light and shade, textures, form and most importantly geometry and symmetry.
Today we are going to explore how to elevate your urban images into artistic black and whites.
There is something I have observed, particularly with newcomers to photography. That is, they will often try to capture everything in a scene rather than isolate a subject. That trait tends to diminish as we become more experienced, but there is another thing we often do, concentrate on the subject as a whole rather than […]
