Tutorials
These photography tutorials will help you learn how to use your camera and become a better photographer. These articles cover the creative and technical aspects of photography and post-processing, with a heavy emphasis on the creative side, the one most important and interesting to many photographers.
Inside Lightroom
Articles about the one of the most popular Raw conversion programs – Lightroom:
How to Retouch Portraits in Lightroom with Sleeklens Lightroom Develop Presets
How to Post Photos to Instagram from Lightroom
How to Use the Excessor Plug-in to Speed Up Your Lightroom Develop Preset Workflow
How to Use UltraBlack Develop Presets to Create Better Black & White Photos
How to Use the New Guided Upright Tool and Lens Correction Panel in Lightroom CC
How Speed Up Your Lightroom Workflow with Photo Mechanic
The Single Most Important Setting in the Lightroom Develop Module
How to Post Photos to Instagram from Lightroom
How to Use DxO Optics Pro with Lightroom
How to Analyse your Lightroom Catalog with Lightroom Dashboard
The Extraordinary Tale of the Lightroom Update that Went Wrong – and What it Means for You
How to Take Photos in Fog (and Process them in Lightroom)
Five Ways to Use Lightroom Mobile
The New Dehaze Slider in Lightroom CC (plus a workaround for Lightroom 6 users)
HDR Merge in Lightroom: First Thoughts
Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC Launched
Video Tutorial: Environmental Portrait in Lightroom
Video Tutorial: Black & White in Lightroom
A Short Guide to Using Smart Previews in Lightoom 5
Portrait Processing in Lightroom
How to Uncrop Square Format Images in Lightroom
How to Show the Focus Points in Lightroom
Converting Photos to Black & White with Tonality Pro
Lightroom Project #2: Create a Long-Term Project
Lightroom Project #1: Organise Your Photos
The Photographer’s Tools (Getting More out of Lightroom)
How to Create the Black & White Matte Look in Lightroom
Use Lightroom Better with the Amazing Alt/Option Key
How to Improve the Speed and Performance of Lightroom
Lightgram Presets for Creative Photographers
How to Prepare Photos for the Web in Lightroom
How to Use Radial Filters in Lightroom
Organising Photo Files For Lightroom
How to Use Graduated Filters in Lightroom
Imitating Instagram Filters in Lightroom
File Renaming in Lightroom: Part One
File Renaming in Lightroom: Part Two
Create Your Own Photography Website with Koken
Using Lightroom Presets for Portraits
The Mastering Lightroom Collection
These five ebooks will help you learn more about using Lightroom. Collectively they cover every aspect of Lightroom, and evey module. Learn more about the Mastering Lightroom ebook collection here.
Other software
Articles marked with an asterix (*) are about programs that also function as Photoshop and Lightroom plug-ins:
How Speed Up Your Lightroom Workflow with Photo Mechanic
How to Save Time When Importing Photos Into Lightroom
How to Use DxO Optics Pro with Lightroom
Perfect Inspiration (video tutorial) *
Silver Efex Pro 2 vs. Tonality Pro
Creating Art with Topaz Labs Clean *
An Introduction to Alien Skin’s Exposure 5: Part One – Black & White *
An Introduction to Alien Skin’s Exposure 5: Part Two – Colour *
Mimicking Film with Digital – and DxO FilmPack 3 for Free *
An Introduction to Silver Efex Pro 2 *
Editing Portraits in Perfect Effects 4 Free
Alternatives to Photoshop CS/CC
Introduction to Pixelmator: Part I
Introduction to Pixelmator: Part II
Creativity & Photography
Articles about the creative life.
How Finding a Rich Environment Improves Your Street Photography
Why the Greatest Photographers Pursue Projects
The One Skill You Need to Succeed at Travel & Street Photography
The Gap Between Making and Processing Photos
Six Principles of Time Management for Photographers
Recent Work
Photos from some of my favourite shoots.
Long Exposure Photography in China
Playing Cards at the Temple of Heaven
Postcard from China: Xintiandi
Behind the Photo – Painting with Light
Photography Techniques
How to Build A Photography Website
12 Reasons Every Photographer Needs a Website or Blog
Why I Converted my X-Pro 1 Camera to Infrared
How I Backed Up My Photos in China
Managing and Backing Up Photos on the Road
Behind the Photo – Mokoroa Falls
Painting with Light: How to Add Interest to Landscapes
Behind the Photo: Telephoto Sunset
Composition
How to Use Foreground Interest to Make Your Landscape Photos More Interesting
Composition Tips from Pro Photographer Bob Holmes
Composition: Filling the Frame
Portrait Photography
Editing Portraits in Perfect Effects 4 Free
Using Natural Light for Portraits
Behind the Photo – Portrait Lenses
Behind the Photo – Natural Light Portraits
A Simple Exercise to Improve your Portrait Photography
Adding Light: Mixing Flash with Daylight
Black and White Photography
What I Learned About Landscape Photography in Northern Spain
How to Find an Interesting Subject for Black & White Landscape Photography
How to Compose Black & White Landscapes
The Power of the Black & White Landscape
My Ten Favourite Photos from 2015
Learning to See in Black & White
The Key to Successful Black & White Photography
50 Beautiful Black & White Photos
The Art of Black & White Film Photography
Inspirational Black & White Photos
Photoshop CS Tutorial: How to Split Tone a Photo in 30 Seconds or Less
Lenses
Should You Use a Prime Lens or a Zoom for Street Photography?
How to Use a Wide-angle Lens for Street and Travel Photography
Why Your Photography Will Improve if You Use Just Two Lenses
What I Did With My Helios Lens in China
How to Protect Your Camera Gear and Register it With Lenstag
Up Close with Canon’s 40mm Pancake Lens
Using EOS cameras
These tutorials are for EOS camera owners.
New Technology in the EOS 7D Mark II
New Canon EOS Camera and Macro Ring Lite Flash (EOS 1200D/Rebel T5)
How to Choose Your Next EOS Camera (early 2015)
New Canon EOS cameras (EOS 700D/Rebel T5i & EOS 100D/Rebel SL1)
Exploring the Potential of Canon Picture Styles
Using Bulb for Long Exposure Photography
Understanding EOS autofocus
Understanding EOS Autofocus: The EOS 70D
Understanding EOS Autofocus: Phase Detection Autofocus
Understanding EOS Autofocus: The EOS 1D Mark IV
Understanding EOS Autofocus: The EOS 5D Mark III and EOS 1D-X
Understanding EOS Autofocus: The EOS 7D
Understanding EOS Autofocus: Focusing at Wide Apertures
Understanding EOS Autofocus: Centre AF Points
DPP
Lightroom 4 vs. DPP: High ISO Noise Reduction
Comparing DPP with Lightroom 4
The Understanding EOS Collection
I have written five ebooks to help you make the most out of your Canon EOS camera. Click here to see the Understanding EOS collection.
Fujifilm X series cameras
A series of articles about my new cameras, the Fujifilm X-Pro 1 and X-T1.
Why I Switched from Canon to Fujifilm
Do Electronic Viewfinders Belong in Digital SLRs?
Thoughts on Taking Portraits with the Fujifilm X-T1 Camera
Long Exposure Photography with the Fujifilm X-Pro 1
