Revealing form and dimension in your images: For most of the time its been around, the local adjustment tools in Adobe Lightroom have paled in comparison to the power and precision of the comparable masking and adjustment tools in Photoshop. Lightroom’s attraction...
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Develop your artistic voice
What do you find beautiful? Is it nature? Or something abstracted to the point of being unrecognizable? Perhaps you find uniformity beautiful? Whatever your answer, this is your personal style — your artistic voice — coming through. Eliminate the unnecessary Hans...
Dynamic Range
I usually try to stay away from seriously technical stuff, because to be honest most of it is above my pay grade!! ? I feel so relieved having to ‘come right out’ and admit it. However, I feel like I should still contribute my two cents worth. This is because...
The Best Way to Capture and Create Balanced Exposures
With the high quality of Digital SLR and mirror-less cameras these days, you have all the tools at your fingertips to create beautiful balanced exposures. The secret to creating well exposed images is knowing how much light you have captured in your image, and that...
The art of minimalism
Creating quiet images In photography we strive to declutter our images. Anything that distracts from the intended subject must be pushed out of frame. In Finding Beauty we take this to the max. Welcome to the art of minimalism! You can apply minimalism to any genre of...
Best of Photographing Flora – our student’s work
Our February's PHOTOGRAPHING FLORA course at BPSOP just finished and it was again a fantastic time spent with our students! We have to admit, that being in the company of photographers and flora enthusiasts is a wonderful combination! We have enjoyed creative work of...
One Minute Landscape Fixes with Luminar 4
Let’s face it - we’re not always lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. There are just too many variables, with weather being the one we have the least control over. In my case, that means coming back with images that just don’t match my expectations...
Flora through frosty window (and not only in winter!)
Beauty of photographing flora lays in the variety of different techniques you can try to get different and creative results! One of them, which we cover in our course Photographing Flora is to photograph through frosty window. Results are extraordinary - and you have...
Lightroom Classic CC or Lightroom CC – What’s the Difference?
Lightroom Classic CC or Lightroom CC - What's the Difference? And which one should you use? Are you confused by the difference between Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC? The class that I teach on this platform is the more advanced Lightroom Classic...