Photo by Radek Grzybowski on Unsplash Creating beautiful, eye-catching photos is all about the details. If the details are spot-on, your photo will have that visual punch you’re looking for. However, if you don’t pay attention to the details, distracting elements can rule the...

Photo by Max Rive  If you aren’t quite satisfied with the quality of your landscape photos, don’t fret… There are about a million landscape photography tips, tricks, and techniques you can rely on to improve the quality of your photos. The tips I outline below are no...

Back in the day, if you wanted to enhance your landscape photo by applying a different color to the background and foreground, you’d have to attach a bi-color filter to your lens. These days, many different editing programs have a bi-color filter in their toolkit, Luminar 3 among...

When it comes to landscape photography, good images are a dime a dozen. Part of what makes so many landscape photos just “okay” rather than spectacular can be chalked up to the approach. For example, many novice photographers simply frame their shots from their eye level which can be quite...

I don't know many photographers that would rather sit in front of their computer editing photos than be out with their camera taking pictures. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy editing my photos and seeing the final result come to fruition. I just want that final result to come more quickly! In this...

Aurora HDR In Aurora HDR 2019, Skylum has set out to give photographers a powerful, yet easy-to-use program for creating vivid, eye-catching, and dynamic images. Past versions of Aurora HDR were met with wide acclaim and won many industry awards. In fact, Apple selected Aurora HDR 2018 as the...

How many times have you found a gorgeous scene to photograph, only to find that your photos were either too dark or too light?  This often happens when the dynamic range - the range of light values in the scene - is too much for your camera to handle in a single shot.  You can get...

Creating a beautiful photo is much more than planning your photo shoot, having the necessary skill, and mastering things like composition and lighting. In fact, the workflow to create the final image involves very little time behind the lens, and much more time planning and prepping beforehand...