New Year’s Resolutions for Photographers

New Year’s Resolutions for Photographers

A new year and the chance for a new start.  What will you focus on this year?  Perhaps you will resolve to spend more time shooting? Perhaps you’ll venture into a new (to you) genre.  Perhaps you will finally take a deep dive into your camera manual and fully master...
Never Center Your Subject ?

Never Center Your Subject ?

The art of composition is full of rules; one of them being, “Don’t ‘bullseye’ your subject in the center of the frame”.  Overly centered compositions are generally considered static and boring — the “Rule of Thirds” which we all learn early on, is a way to break the...
How to create strong compositions

How to create strong compositions

Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. In photography we strive to declutter our images. Anything that distracts from the intended subject must be pushed out of frame. This is how we arrive at strong compositions. In Finding Beauty we look at what to leave out of your frame...
Major Update to Lightroom Classic

Major Update to Lightroom Classic

On April 18th, Adobe released a game-changing update to Lightroom and Camera Raw.  While there are some improvements in masking that will be of interest to portrait photographers, and we finally have the Tone Curve in local adjustments, the big news is in the Detail...
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