Photography Tips

The posts found on this page are written to help you become a better landscape photographer. Regardless of where you’re at in your journey, there’s something here for you. Learn about the fundamentals of photography, technical skills, compositional skills, creative exercises, and much more.

Video: Tips for Photographing Rivers

Since I started with landscape photography more than 10 years ago I was drawn to flowing water. The coast, waterfalls and rivers have always...

5 Tips for Landscape Photography in Iceland

Iceland has quickly become one of the most popular countries for landscape photographers to visit. Once you've been there yourself it's not hard to...

How to Make a Grey Sky Glow… Without Processing

One of the three major ingredients of great landscape photos is light. Subject matter and composition lay the foundation, but it’s the light that can transform...

Image Averaging and Time Blending for High Quality Night Photos

My goal for my landscape photos has always been to have them printed large. That’s why I try to avoid noise and through use...

3 Essential Tips for Landscape Photography

Before a presentation we did during a bad-weather day on a photography workshop I co-guided in Northern Norway, I was asked to give my...

My Best Practices for Printing Drone Images

I have been a photographer since the 1970s and I have been a printer of my work from the beginning. In that era, a...

5 Common Camera Setting Mistakes Beginning Photographers Make

Learning how to properly handle the camera is the most important aspect of improving your photography. While composition, light and post-processing have a big...

8 Tips for Better Seascape Photography

At sunset, in a storm, in autumn or in the morning stillness, the sea is a photographic subject that may give us countless satisfactions....

6 Tips for Better Drone Landscape Photography

There's no doubt that drone photography is a growing niche in the landscape photography field and it's not hard to understand why; you're able...

4 Untold Tips for Photographing Northern Lights

Photographing Northern Lights is something I wish every photographer can experience at least once in their life. Standing underneath a green sky that's elegantly...