Following the release news of the Canon EF 11-24mm F/4L USM Lens, came countless sleepless nights of research and reading reviews. At the end of that process, all I could safely decipher was that it was the new dream lens of the landscape photographer in me. The build The moment you pick up this le

Throughout the internet, there are quite a few photographers trading in their DSLRs for shiny new mirrorless cameras. I never thought I’d join the crew switching from Canon to Sony, telling myself that it’s not the bells and whistles of brand new cameras that define a photographer’

Last August I bought the Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM L-series lens for myself as a birthday gift. Since then it’s been in almost constant use as I’ve photographed horses and wildlife in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, and Utah. I’ve made more than 14,000 image

Buyers are not silly: you buy an inkjet printer for $60, happily use it, drain the original inks, then head back to the store for refills, only to find the replacement cartridges cost more than the printer! And we can count: retail stores often charge as low as 10 cents each for happy snap 10x15cm p

Looking over my shoulder recently, I was surprised at how much I have come to depend on a scanner. Early on, I had a love/hate relationship with desktop scanners, mainly because of their early and fiddly operating software. And don’t bring up the topic of dedicated film scanners! I trashed my

Struggling to choose between the Canon EOS R5 vs the Sony a7R IV? You’ve come to the right place. Both the EOS R5 and the a7R IV are powerful cameras that offer top-notch image quality, fast focusing, and more – but which camera is best? Who should consider purchasing the EOS R5? And wh

Which is right for you, RAW vs JPEG? For beginners, it’s one of the toughest questions out there – but I’m here to help you make a confident, informed decision, one that you won’t regret five, ten, or twenty years down the line. Specifically, I’m going to explain: What

Choosing the best aperture for portraits doesn’t have to be complicated… …but there are some guidelines to follow if you want your shots to look stunning. And in this article, I’m going to break it down for you. I’ll share with you my favorite apertures for differen

In this comprehensive Capture One 21 review, I’m going to take you through everything you need to know about Capture One’s latest editing software. In fact, as a beta tester for the newest release, I’ve spent plenty of time working with Capture One 21 behind the scenes (and I hav

In order to write a good Nikon NX Studio review, it’s important to step back to see who this program is for and how it fits into the image editing landscape. In 2006, Nikon released a software tool called Capture NX, which was designed for its fledgling line of digital cameras. Over the year

Have you noticed how many photographers are fascinated with nature? Even if we specialize in another genre, few of us can resist a gorgeous flower or a branch of autumn leaves. One of the best things about photographing nature is that it is so accessible. You don’t need to travel far to find i

We live in weird times as photographers. Paradoxes abound and when it comes to the idea of cameras and whether or not cellphone photographic performance is on par with dedicated digital camera systems is an issue which sees even learned opinions hopelessly polarized. I have a good friend who photog

On the afternoon of August 21, 2017, an event took place in the United States that has not happened in almost 100 years. A total solar eclipse was visible for a huge swath of the mainland population. While total solar eclipses aren’t an entirely uncommon phenomenon, it is highly irregular

A wedding photographer has to be prepared for pretty much anything. Big belly laughs, impromptu outbursts of song and bear hugs can happen at any moment. Not to mention that the light is constantly changing and you’ve got yourself a schedule to keep. Let’s just say weddings keep you on y

I have always had a soft spot for 1940s and 50s Film Noir, where there is always a gorgeous Femme Fatale, whose charms are most likely going to get you killed. The light in those movies is the key to the ambience of mystery and danger, and I love the way the scenes are composed with smoke, shadows,

This is exactly how I process every wedding that I photograph. I am now on my fifth year of shooting weddings and have shot roughly 70 of them. I am a big fan of working smart and not hard. Every step of my workflow is thought out, and belongs for very specific reasons. Most of the ti

A Guest post by Loic Le Guilly Your D800 is in the mail On Sunday 15th of July 2012 I went to a friend’s house to borrow his camera. I had a photo shoot the next day and I had nothing decent to shoot with. My newly ordered Nikon D800 was in the mail… apparently. And I had sold my truste

Photographing business events is a lesson in extremes. One day you might be photographing a fascinating gala with incredible lighting and a lot of alcohol and energy. Then another day, you might be forcing yourself to pay attention while capturing an insurance industry conference in a dimly lit hot

As a photographer, you have no doubt heard people talk about file formats, specifically RAW and JPG. Some people shoot only in RAW, others like JPG, and many photographers use both. Each format has benefits and drawbacks, but if you want the most amount of control over your pictures, you proba

Sometimes things just don’t work out, you make photo mistakes and your resulting image is DOA – Dead on Arrival.  What went wrong?  To borrow terminology from the world of forensics, determining the “cause of death” might require a “photo autopsy.” A se