Photo How To

The eye-opening tutorial below begins with a question from instructor Simon d'Entremont: "Do you find that some of your photos aren't as good as you hoped, but you're unsure exactly what's wrong?" Maybe they're blurry, lacking in detail, unsharp, or simply uninteresting. We've all faced this dilemma at one time or another, regardless of our skills.

All outdoor photographers look for a creative edge that make their images stand out from the crowd, especially when shooting iconic sites that have been photographed time and time again. Today's quick tutorial from the KPM YouTube channel  demonstrates how to do exactly that by including a perfectly defined sunstar that adds drama and depth when framing up a shot.          

If you've ever unwittingly deleted photos from a memory card, the pain of losing hard-earned images is about as bad as can be. In the next four minutes you'll learn how to void this disaster forever more by safeguarding the memory cards you use.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, "There are too many rules of grammar up with which to put." And the same holds true for photography rules, especially with regard to composition. Instructor Ian worth admits that a few of these familiar notions can help frame an image, as long as you understand when they're advisable and when they should be ignored.

Time blending is one of the most powerful post-processing techniques for making sense out of complicated landscape scenes with a wide range brightness values throughout the frame. Today's instructor Austin James Jackson explains the concept like this: "Capturing stunning wide-angle scenes can be easy when you're willing to do a time blend," and this is what you'll learn how to do in the next 15 minutes.

Here's a unique tutorial from bird photographer Shelley Pearson who treats us to an uncommon mix of information, gorgeous imagery, and inspiration for nature and wildlife shooters. In the next five minutes you'll learn how to unlock the beauty of backlighting effects.

All of us who shoot in color have experienced the disappointment of capturing a unique scene that fails to meet expectations. The video below from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel explains why some images can be significantly more compelling in b&w, with a basic workflow for making a dramatic transformation.