Vintage Lens Photography When building up a modern photography kit, you can expect to spend the largest portion of your budget on glass (a.k.a. lenses).  Autofocus lenses can often cost as much or more than the camer...

15 Things Every Photographer Should Have in Their Camera Bag If you spend any amount of time shooting on location (as opposed to shooting in a home studio) you may have found that there is something you left at home ...

How to Clean Your Camera Sensor When to have your camera cleaned is a very common question that comes up in regards to gear maintenance. Keeping your camera's sensor clean and dust free will help you have sharper ima...

How to Clean Your Camera Lens I will be the first to admit that I'm a camera gear junkie.  I love my camera gear, old and new, and I totally treat it like a baby. Just like your monitor, TV,  or glasses, sometimes, y...

Full Frame or Crop Sensor (Which Camera is Right For You?) Full frame & crop sensor. These four words seem to spark a lot of debate within the photography community!  As photographers, we are artistic, but most o...

Starburst Photography A “Starburst” of "Sunburst" in photography refers to capturing the sun in your photo where you can actually see the sun’s rays in a star like shape. I don't capture starbursts in all of my lands...

30+ Top Photos of 2019 - Pretty Presets & Actions Photo Challenge We are so excited to share these incredible photos with you from our Pretty Presets and Actions photo community.  It's always so hard to narrow i...

Match Total Exposure in Lightroom (A Trick that Will Save You Hours) I had a little incident with my camera recently.  I accidentally turned on the bracketing setting (I’m under a year with my new camera and still hi...

How to Use Lightroom's New Multi-Batch Export Feature In Lightroom, there isn't a "save" feature like there is in Photoshop.  Instead, photos are "exported".  When you export photos you create new files that include ...

Professional Makeup & Photography We all have those rare photos of ourselves that we look at and can’t help but think "Wow, I look good! Maybe it was your clothes, the way your hair was styled, or perhaps the com...

How to Customize & Adjust Lightroom Presets One question that I get asked quite often from Lightroom preset users is "How can I adjust a preset, when its effect is too much?" or "Is there a way to lower the opaci...

Are you curious about what DNG is?  In this tutorial, learn all about the DNG File Format - including the benefits and how you can start using it right now!

What is the Linear Gradient (Graduated Filter) Tool Are you getting the most out of the linear gradient tool in Lightroom?  What the heck is a linear gradient anyway? In this tutorial, I will explain the linear gradi...

6 Free (and Creative) Ways to Market Your Photography Business Marketing your new photography business doesn’t have to break the bank.  The two most important things you can do are: Get your name out there to potent...

How to Use Hue & Saturation in Photoshop The Hue Saturation Panel in Photoshop is a simple yet fine-tuned tool for color management.  You can use Hue Saturation to adjust unwanted color casts in your images, such...

3 Lightroom Settings You Should Change RIGHT NOW! Lightroom has lots of settings and preferences -- and sometimes its hard to know what the best option is! So, today I thought I would share with you 3 Lightroom setti...

7 Tips for Using the Radial Gradient (Filter) Tool Most of the edits that you will make in Lightroom's Develop Module in the Basic Panel and other panels will apply adjustments to the full photo.  However, a Radial G...

How to Choose a Camera Lens (That's Best For You!) I remember when I started shopping for my first lens.  I had a Nikon D60 (this was nearly 8 years ago now!) with a 18-55mm kit lens, which came with the camera.  I h...

Understanding the Lightroom Histogram The histogram is very helpful tool used by photographers to tell whether their photo has good exposure, and whether there are any lost details (clipped highlights or shadows) in ...

How to Recover Deleted Images from Your SD Card Have you ever accidentally erased your memory card before you were able to transfer your images to your computer?  Or, have you ever had a memory card hiccup for no obv...