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How to Insure your Camera Gear


Accidents are inevitable in all facets of our lives. Owning an expensive camera accompanied with an assortment of lenses is a liability that all photographers must confront. Leading nearly thirty workshops per year for the past five years, I’ve seen just about every camera accident that you can think of...

How to photograph from a helicopter


Shooting from the air can be one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences a photographer can have. In this article I’ll explain how to photograph from a helicopter and achieve amazing results...

Photoshop vs Zerene Stacker

Before digging into the Photoshop vs Zerene Stacker challenge, I’d like to give a brief introduction to what focus stacking is. Focus stacking is the process of combining multiple images during post processing in order to create sharp detail throughout the entire field of view. This technique can be very useful for landscape and macro photographers who do not want to settle for a shallow depth of field.

5 Pro Tips for Landscape Photography

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Wharariki Beach is the northern most part of the southern island of New Zealand. Just off of the shore is a group of rocks known as the Archway Islands...

Make Dreamy Landscapes in Photoshop with Oniric Plugin

In the world of digital photography, post processing is just as important as finding the right composition and pressing the shutter button. In landscape photography it is the photographer’s job to invoke a feeling or emotion within the viewer as if they are actually standing in the location that the photo was taken...

10 Truths of Landscape Photography

Here are 10 landscape photography tips that every photographer should understand in order to build a powerful portfolio.

1. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SUFFER.

Sorry to be bearer of bad news, but you often have to suffer to get the shot...

10 More Truths of Landscape Photography
1. YOU CAN’T MAKE EVERYTHING LOOK GOOD ALL OF THE TIME

I’ll start with the what seems like an obvious statement, yet many photographers get hung up when they come away from a shoot without a five star image...

Hidden Lightroom features in the Library Module

There’s no question that Adobe Lightroom is a powerful piece of photo editing software. Underneath the surface are numerous hidden features that many people overlook. From secret key commands to overlooked menu items, I’m going to shed some light of the industry’s leading photo editing software...

Hidden Lightroom features in the Develop Module

The Develop module in Adobe Lightroom CC Classic is fairly straight forward. With a little bit of poking around, a modestly computer savvy photographer can make some pretty decent edits with relatively little

knowledge of the software...

The Best Phone Apps for Landscape Photographers


There’s no question that smart phones have made planning our photographic adventures much easier. There seems to be an endless number of apps available, but which ones are the best? This list contains a few of my “can’t live without” photography apps that I find myself using on a regular basis...

How to Simulate Long Exposures in Photoshop

Long Exposure photography is thrilling because the camera is creating something that the eye cannot see. Traditionally, neutral density filters are used to create long exposures but a similar effect can easily be achieved with with editing software...