Guides
Practical articles on landscape photography, grounded in my own experience in the field. These guides cover technique, equipment, light, composition, and post-processing — but always in connection with the larger question of what I'm trying to express and why. The thinking here grows directly from the experiences documented in Stories.
Master Lightroom’s Tone Controls to Perfect Exposure, Contrast, and Balance
Lightroom’s Tone controls are some of the most powerful tools for shaping the light, depth, and mood of your photos. In this guide, I break down how to use the five essential sliders — Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks — to correct common issues, recover detail, and add creative impact. You’ll also learn how these controls interact with the histogram, and how to apply them with confidence to achieve balanced, natural-looking results. By the end, you’ll know how to turn good photos into stunning images with depth, richness, and polish.
Exposure Stacking – What is it and what is the best technique to merge images?
This article explains what is meant by “Exposure Stacking”, how to use it, what the exposure stacking techniques are, and which one is the best.
JPEG vs RAW vs DNG – Why you should shoot in RAW format and edit in DNG format
This comprehensive article explains why landscape photographers should shoot and edit in the RAW as opposed to JPEG. It also describes an end-to-end, uniform workflow that enables the capture of an image in the highest possible quality and that is preserved in the archival DNG format.