Photo Tips

26/01/2020 In Photo Tips, Travel, Venture Blog By sengmah

The Power of Three: A Triangulated Compositional Outlook

When you take up photography, one of the key things you need to consider is the way you compose your image. Composition is about the placement and positioning of elements within your image so that, together, they create an impression on your viewer. Sometimes, this...

26/11/2019 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Chasing Waterfalls, and how to Photograph them

I’ve just returned from an 11-day photography trip to Tasmania, the chief purpose of which was to scout out new locations for future landscape photography tours in Australia’s “Apple Isle”. Tasmania is famous for its waterfalls (there are lots) and because it gets a lot...

25/08/2019 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

PSA: A hot tip for enabling your Canon DSLR to shoot with a speedlight in AV mode

If you shoot with Canon DSLRs and want to use a speedlight with your camera, it may be worthwhile checking this setting in your Canon menu. In the recent "Intro to Speedlights" workshop I ran, a number of participants were perplexed when their Canon DLSRs...

12/08/2019 In Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Lightroom Tip: Crop overlays to help with composition

Here's a simple, yet nifty, Lightroom Tip that helps you compose your final image during editing. When you select the Crop tool in Lightroom, a number of "Crop Overlays" become available to you. These overlays superimpose an overlay over your image that shows you how...

12/08/2019 In Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Lightroom Tip: Enhancing the “golden glow” of sunset

This tip is all about adding the golden glow of sunlight into your images. It can be used for landscapes, or even for portraits (to give your portraits that warm, soft glow of light, as if there's a bit of sunset peeking in from just...

21/07/2019 In Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Lightroom Tip: Using the tone sampler in the Tone Curve Panel

The Tone Curve in Lightroom is a useful way to add contrast or adjust tones in your image (tone is the brightness/darkness of pixels in the image). Most people adjust the Tone Curve into an "S" shaped curve to give their image a bit of...

20/07/2019 In Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Lightroom Tip: Removing dust spots and other distractions

As much as we try to keep our camera sensors clean, chances are, specks of dust do get in and land on the sensor. When you start shooting at smaller aperture values, these dust specks appear in your image as slightly fuzzy but noticeable spots....

18/07/2019 In Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Lightroom Tip: Creating the “matte” look

You may have come across images which have a "matte" look to them, effectively reproducing the "matte print finish" look in a digital image. "Matte" effect images seem a little more tonally flat and perhaps evoke a more "vintage" feel to them. It's easy to...

17/07/2019 In Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Lightroom Tip: Using “Light’s Out” as a cropping guide

Today's tip is to help all of you who love cropping your images in Lightroom. Did you know that you can enable the "Light's Out" feature in Lightroom to help you visualise your crop without the distraction of the visible panels in the Lightroom Interface? Once...

11/07/2019 In Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Lightroom Tip: Adjusting Colours using the Tone Curve

Today's tip is all about the RGB Channels in the Tone Curve in Lightroom. Most of us use the Tone Curve to adjust luminosity and contrast in our images. But did you know that you can also use it to colour grade your images, using...