Free Photography Guides
The Photography Guides are for photographers at all levels who want to experiment with different types of photography or different techniques.
A collection of free photography resources in a series called Ultimate Guides.
Ultimate Guide to Milky Way Photography
In this guide to Milky Way photography, I’m going to explain how you can create good, clear, well-defined photographs of the Milky Way with a DSLR or Mirrorless Camera, a wide angle lens, image stacking software and Adobe Photoshop. Introduction The aim of this guide is to demonstrate how to produce great pictures of the…
Photographers Guide to Shooting Video
Photographers guide to shooting video is a two-part post, this part focusing on kit, and the next part on technique. Video is a Different Skill For photographers transitioning to video, and I absolutely include myself in this problematic category, shooting video exposes the Dunning-Kruger effect in spades. If you don’t already know, the Dunning-Kruger effect…
Ultimate Guide to Hosting Gigapixel Panoramas
This article is simply about hosting. For information on the art of creating panoramas and 360° photography check out these articles: The Ultimate Guide to Panoramic Photography, Levelling Base for Panoramic Photography, The Ultimate 360 Photography Guide Best Software for 360 Photography Setting up a Webserver on Amazon S3 and using Cloudfront to cache content…
Setting up a Mastodon Server for Photography
In this post, I’m going to describe the process of setting up a Mastodon server for photography. Now, Mastodon is not a photography app as such, but I’m sticking my neck out here and saying that it will become as important in the photography world as Twitter. If you’re as tired of the algorithmically challenged…
Ultimate Guide to Taking Sharp Landscape Photographs
This post takes us through the steps required to get perfectly sharp landscape photographs from front to back and side to side. I’ve been using various techniques, including focus stacking in Photoshop, increasingly in my landscape photography. Always with the same goal. To create an image that is sharp where I need it to be…
The Ultimate Guide to Panoramic Photography
Practising large scale panoramic photography is a step up from creating a panorama with an iPhone or even a 360° image with a GoPro Max, Insta360 or Ricoh Theta. We’re going to be looking at panoramic landscape photography in particular where the scene has left, right, top and bottom edges. Many of the principles will…
The Best Way to Use Adobe Lightroom Collections
In this post we’re taking a look at Adobe Lightroom Collections, how to create them, when to create them and where they sit in relation to the Catalog and keywords. Keywords or Collections? Adobe Lightroom offers a lot of choices when it comes to Catalog Management. Keywords, Keyword Sets, Collections, Collection Sets, Quick Collections, Smart…
Catalog Management with Lightroom Classic
In this guide, we will be focusing on Catalog Management with Lightroom Classic. Adobe Lightroom Classic is the tool preferred by most professional photographers. Let’s take a closer look and figure out why that is. Adobe Lightroom Classic vs. Adobe Lightroom Adobe Lightroom Classic is the freestanding version of Lightroom that is still favoured by…
The Ultimate 360 Photography Guide
360 Photography Guide I started to play with 360° Photography around five years ago when I created a project called Funky Frankwell to promote small businesses in the Frankwell district of Shrewsbury. To differentiate the project I created 360° images and in some cases virtual tours of each business so that viewers could take a…
