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ABCs of Photo Sorting: How to Turn a Mess of Pictures into an Organized Collection

Have you ever faced a necessary project that seems so overwhelming you don’t know where to begin? You delay, then you don’t start, and soon enough the project is a mental barnacle, forever attached to a to-do list. That can be the state of affairs when your intent is to sort a collection of photos.… Continue reading ABCs of Photo Sorting: How to Turn a Mess of Pictures into an Organized Collection

How to Use Smart Previews to Save Space and Speed Up Lightroom Classic

With Lightroom’s Smart Previews you can work on your Lightroom catalog without access to the image files. This is a powerful, but under-appreciated feature of Lightroom. Smart Previews give you the freedom to keep working even if you lose access to the drive that stores your image files. This feature makes it easy to send… Continue reading How to Use Smart Previews to Save Space and Speed Up Lightroom Classic

How-to Rename Photos Automatically in Lightroom Classic

Why bother renaming your image files? Isn’t IMG_4232.RAW good enough for most photographers? So you use an app, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, to manage yours: good choice. But what happens if you lose your catalog, and all that careful organization goes with it? One smart habit is to keep some specific, basic metadata in the filenames… Continue reading How-to Rename Photos Automatically in Lightroom Classic

Get Started With Adobe Lightroom Classic: The Photo Workflow

When you first got into photography you probably weren’t thinking much about your digital image workflow. Then you really caught the photography bug, and several years (or maybe weeks!) later you’ve taken thousands of images. If you’re anything like me, these pictures are pretty disorganized. This tutorial shows how to use Adobe Lightroom to tame… Continue reading Get Started With Adobe Lightroom Classic: The Photo Workflow

Fiction and absurdity: Thomas Rousset’s exaggerated explorations of rural life

Reading Time: 2 minutes © Thomas Rousset. Set in the village of Prabert in France, Rousset’s images play on the eccentricities of the village and its people, transforming them lovingly into caricatures and tableaus During his childhood, Thomas Rousset spent a great deal of time among the detritus of a traditional rural life. Alongside the… Continue reading Fiction and absurdity: Thomas Rousset’s exaggerated explorations of rural life

Lightroom Classic for Beginners — Free Video Tutorial (2hrs)

Get started with photography in Adobe Lightroom Classic using this free 2-hour video course. You’ll learn all the tools and techniques you need to edit photos with confidence. Watch Lightroom Classic for Beginners for Free Here  Table of Contents This course contains 38 lessons organised into eight chapters. In total, the video runs two hours… Continue reading Lightroom Classic for Beginners — Free Video Tutorial (2hrs)

Capturing emotion in your commercial portraits

Emotion has a powerful influence over our everyday purchasing decisions, and this year, new research from the research consultancy Brand Keys revealed just how far that influence goes. In 1997, researchers found that rational considerations weighed more heavily than emotional ones when driving brand loyalty. However, that’s changed today, with emotional considerations outpacing rational ones.… Continue reading Capturing emotion in your commercial portraits

Tips for gorgeous fall photos

As the days grow shorter, tree swallows and monarch butterflies begin their migrations. Garden spiders weave their webs, visible in the morning dew. Over warm water, the cool autumn air creates ethereal fog. The green leaves turn to shades of lemon, amber, and mahogany. The quality of the sunlight itself also changes at this time… Continue reading Tips for gorgeous fall photos