I’ve been going on long, meandering walks lately. Mostly to take me away from the computer where I have been dealing with the fallout from Covid-19 cancelling my photography tours this year. A lot of work goes into planning and running photography tours and a...
Today's 60 Second Lightroom Edit is a portrait, just for something different! The initial image is quite overexposed (which is why you should always shoot in Raw, so that you can recover overexposure/underexposure in your image). Let's see what 60 seconds in Lightroom Classic can...
Of late, I've been thinking of how best to use the digital medium available to us to provide fun and useful content to customers and followers of Venture Photography Workshops and Tours. This is especially important now that we are in a period of social...
It's been a while since I've released a video tutorial, so I thought it was time to do one. This video is all about dealing with high contrast scenes and how to shoot for high dynamic range image making in Lightroom Classic. If you're not...
A version of this article appeared in the March 2020 edition of Venture Horizons (our monthly e-newsletter) and I thought I'd also share it on the Venture Blog. I've been thinking a great deal about photography lately. I don't mean the technical side of photography: the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...