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A dirty sensor can cause havoc in post-processing. Large spots are evident in a digital file and can be removed fairly easily in digital software, but when five, ten, or even fifty spots start to show up in post, the task of removing them can be extraordinarily time consuming. It’s best to take precautions to avoid dust and debris on the sensor, and when it’s dirty, to clean it properly. Photographers are often nervo

Exposure is a pretty crucial element of your photography, but learning how exposure works can be a little tricky. So, for all of you awesome photography novices out there, here’s a post that will help you understand how your aperture, shutter speed, and ISO all work together in creating a perfectly exposed photo. Down below you’ll see the exposure triangle, which is your key to understanding exposure. Don

Photographer John Barclay explains how he uses the Sweet 35 to enhance the visual impact of an abandoned scene. What I Used Lensbaby Composer Pro Lensbaby Sweet 35 Optic A wicked cool location to shoot! A sturdy tripod Metadata: ISO 400, shutter speed 1/20, aperture f/4 How It Came Together This is a frequently photographed chair at the abandoned Klotz Silk Mill in Maryland. I wanted to do something different on this

Marc Muench (www.muenchphotography.com) has been a professional landscape and sports photographer for over 20 years. Marc is now the “artist in residence” at dgrin.com for Smugmug, where he contributes on a regular basis to the “Muench University” critique thread. He is currently the photo editor of the National Parks guide, published by The American Park Network, which contain many of his images taken throughout the

Who is Gary Bremner Photography? My name is Gary Bremner and I am one-half of GBP, a photography team based in Whitehorse Yukon, which is located next to Alaska (thats how we describe it to everyone not from western Canada). When people find out we are full time photographers in the north, the first thing they say is “wow you must have some great images of northern lights, hunh?” The truth is that I have never taken

A photographic exposure is dependent upon three variables: aperture, shutter speed and ISO. For photographers shooting film, the aperture and shutter speed might have changed from frame to frame, but ISO was always a constant—at least until you finished the rest of the roll of film (and at 24 or 36 exposures that was usually a ways away). Skip ahead to digital—and now, not only can you change the shutter speed and ap

“Magic Hour”—sounds like the next great soon-to-be-has-been tween punk band. But, it’s actually much more than that. The magic hour is your most valuable cohort in creating imagery that earns keeper status and stays out of the trash bin. Interestingly enough, this elusive “magic hour” can be more like a magic minute at times, or can extend to a magic marathon at others. In its very nature, exceptional light is often

Chantel Marie Tripp has been a full-time wedding & lifestyle photographer since 2010. Chantel graduated from the University of Utah in Communication, but started to get into photography in her last year at the U. After graduating, Chantel moved out to LA and worked for Sara Allen of One Love Photo (www.onelove-photo.com) for a few months and then moved back to UT to pursue her own personal business in photography

Drake Busath has been a working photographer for 35 years. He guides workshops in Italy, where he has worked, lived, and traveled extensively. Drake teaches professional seminars from Australia and Asia to Europe and in most U.S. States. He has been featured multiple times on the cover of Professional Photographer magazine, and his photographs hang in thousands of homes and offices across the country. If you ask me,

There are many things about the Composer Pro and Edge 80 optic that take us back to the fundamental roots of photography, buut Edge 80 can take us back even further—back to the Jurassic. As the Marketing Manager at Lensbaby, I love that it’s my job to promote the cool tools & toys we make, and I truly enjoy coming up with fun and unexpected ways to use them in my own work. My boyfriend, our dog, and I hike nearly