Tips & Tricks

Let's be honest: there are a lot of mediocre and repeating tips out there on how you can improve your landscape photography. Straighten the horizon, buy a new camera, invest in equipment... Sure, these things might have an impact on your images but they won't make you a better photographer. There's something much more important that you...

There are few things that are more spectacular to witness as a lover of the outdoors than seeing the Northern Lights elegantly dance around the night sky. Tourism to places such as Northern Norway and Iceland has exploded during the last few years and more people travel to Arctic locations during winter to...

The Histogram is a tool that most beginners know about, but have zero understanding of. Yet it is one of the most important tools to understand

Night photography is a fascinating genre of landscape photography. You're standing outside in total darkness but the camera display shows something else: a starry sky and the beauty surrounding you. Photographing the night sky isn't quite as straightforward as one might want, though. In fact, it is in many cases quite opposite of 'regular' landscape...

Autumn offers a wide range of photographic opportunities, especially for those who love colors and moody days. With the quickly changing scenery, colorful landscapes and shorter days, it's not hard to understand why it's the favorite season of so many photographers. But how do you capture the vibrancy of it? How do you walk home with beautiful images? A typical...

If you've played around with night photography before you're well aware of the many differences to standard landscape photography. Forget about the rules and guidelines you know about general settings for photography; most of these are likely to do more harm than good when the sun goes down and stars take over the sky.

I'm going to start with a statement that you need to remember: choosing the wrong ISO will severely damage the image quality. The aperture and shutter speed are both important for capturing pretty images but the ISO has a direct impact on the image quality. Setting the "wrong" ISO isn't going to make the...

Nail the focus in Night Photography Night Photography is a genre that has become more and more popular the last years. Photographing at night can give stunning results but it also comes with a few more challenges than "regular" daytime photography. The most normal challenge with nighttime photography is getting everything sharp and in focus. Let me tell you this: getting...

Technology has changed a lot during the last decade or so and it's been fascinating to see how this has impacted the camera market. More and more people rely on mobile phones for their photography and these cameras are better than ever before. But are smartphones going to replace professional cameras? Are we going...

Let's face it: it takes time to master any skill. Photography is no different. Yes, it's more likely that you get a nice shot after a one-day photography workshop than to learn an advanced song on the guitar in the same time period but we all get lucky now and then. It's not...