Forum: Weekly Photography Tips

By now many of you will have heard that Adobe is planning to replace their Creative Suite applications including Photoshop with the new Creative...

Those who were with me last week know that my laptop pretty much died. With my new, more powerful one here, it's time to my Lightroom catalog and all...

Having suffered with computer problems all weekend, I'm typing this on an old and slow backup laptop. As such, it seems like a perfect occasion to...

Too often it seems as if the frame is merely an irrelevant rectangular shape surrounding the subject of an image. But the camera sees more than just...

This past Monday, Adobe announced the public availability of Lightroom 5 Beta. This gives users a chance to try the cool new features Adobe is...

Anyone seriously interested in nature photography has admired at least a few of Ansel Adams better known images. His work is iconic. Trying to follow...

Your monitor can only display a certain range of colors. Likewise, your printer is limited by the formulation of the inks it prints with. So why do...

Since their founding, Joby has revolutionized the camera accessory market with its highly praised GorillaPod line of flexible tripods. Their first...

Although it has been supplanted by Lightroom for many users, Adobe Photoshop was long considered the standard for optimizing and editing digital...

Composition is a series of decisions. If you pay attention to what you are doing and think things though, you may just surprise yourself.... ...

Photography is both a science and an art. Not only do you need to master the technology of the equipment you lug around, you have to find a good way...

Cameras don't see color the way we do. Being much more sensitive to the color of light, it can be all too easy to end up with images possessed with...

Drive space today is cheap, so most photographers can easily keep everything they shoot if they want to. But should you?.... More...

Sometimes the actual subject of a photograph doesn't really matter that much. Sometimes it can serve merely as something for the light to fall on.......

After much planning and anticipation, you go somewhere ready to take some pictures. Whether you get good shots or not, do you stop there, or do you...

Users of Adobe Lightroom 4 may well have noticed that the slider controls in the Develop module are different for new images than they used to be for...

No, "Process Version 2012" isn't a Mayan prediction of the end of the world hidden inside Adobe Lightroom 4, but it does spell the end of the...

Some of you may have gotten a new camera with an endless array of high tech features over the holidays. Even more readers probably wish they had. But...

True or false: the histogram for a well exposed image should return to zero on both ends. Perhaps true if you want to see detail throughout, but not...

This article is a complete rewrite of one I originally wrote now seven years. It may technically be a bit late this year, but I thought it would be...