The most important thing about photography, in my opinion, is composition. If you don't have good composition, then,...
Portrait Photography Basics – Composition
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How to do Dodge & Burn (Contouring)
LONG overdue this one - Today we're going to look at a method that I've used for a few years to dodge and burn using a...
What is Depth of Field & how to alter it
Depth of Field is a really important beginner's topic in the theory of Photography because it impacts so much of an...
Roasting: My 13 years of photography
Learning is a process, it isn't going to happen overnight. It takes work, stress, sweat and time. You cannot compare...
What is fringing, how to avoid and how to fix it
I feel like this post is about two years late but today, we're covering chromatic aberration, aka Fringing - what is...
8 Tips for Photographing Pets & People
I realised that although we'd created a tutorial on how to photography multiple subjects together, the Request Box was...
How To: Photograph Dogs Running – Action Photography 101
Post updated: 17th November 2021 Have you been stuck on how to complete stellar dog action photography? Well, if you...
How to give & receive constructive critique
Constructive critique, otherwise known as CC, is a super common thing in the world of social media and especially so...
How to use Lightrooms Masking features
When I first saw this I think I actually said WTF. Now that it's here and I've had a chance to play, I wanted to share...
How to know when to, and how to, clean your sensor
This weeks video is all about sensor spots, dust spots and sensor cleaning for your camera - a somewhat scary topic...
Curves in Photoshop: The 10 Basic Adjustments
This weeks video is all about Curves and I want to walk through some functionality in this blog post too. To skip...
What is Metering in photography?
Pretty much as the title says here, this post is all about Metering. Metering is also known as exposure metering,...
How to correct tint and temp issues
This weeks video is all about colour. We've covered colour before on more than one occasion, first with white balance...
Cropped Sensor V Full-Frame Cameras
I've been putting off covering this topic because there are so many parts to it that I worried that I'd end up just...
How to get more than one subject in focus in the same photograph
How to get multiple subjects in focus in one photo is like the holy grail of portrait photography and it's rarely...
Flash Photography 101: Off Camera Flash for Beginners
Where on earth do you start as a newbie into the world of flash photography? Off camera flash photography for...
What’s all the hype about Histograms?
Ah Histograms, the photographers faithful friend. I will admit, I didn't really feel they were that important but...
Equine Photography 101: Things you need to know
The inspiration for this Equine Photography Basics video started with seeing how excited so many of the community were...
Photoshop Basics – The 3 things you NEED to know
Photoshop is like a magical world that is completely terrifying for anyone new to it. All these weird and wonderful...
How to win print competitions (photography awards)
Print competitions are a somewhat misunderstood genre of photography awards and to be honest, it's not too difficult...