Feb 17, 2011

OK, this isn’t going to be a text-heavy post, because I want to just show you what Adobe Lightroom (available from Amazon US and UK) can do – and can do so easily! I’ve literally only just discovered this fantastic piece of software, and have only been playing with it for an hour, but I’ve been blown away by just how easy it is to use,...

Feb 6, 2011

OK, I may have already posted this on our facebook page last week, but I thought I should feature it on the site too – it’s so funny! Check it out if being a wedding shooter is appealing to you at all – you may change your mind after watching! By the way, the language is pretty ‘colourful’ so you may want to check out the G-rated...

Jan 4, 2011

You may have a keen interest in wedding photography, or you may not, but I think you can learn lots from studying it – and I’m not just meaning that you can learn lots about how to shoot weddings. No, I mean that by studying various examples of wedding photography, you can learn how to take better photos in general. Think about it: In what other...

Dec 30, 2010

The new year is nearly upon us – doesn’t it come around quick? Before thinking about 2011, though, I thought it would be interesting to have a look back at LearningTheLight.com’s first year, and see which articles were the most popular. By looking at my Google Analytics data, I can see which posts on the site had the most visits, and so,...

Nov 25, 2010

A very small post, this one, but I thought I’d just let you know that I recently got some of my photos printed large – a mix of A2 and A3 sizes – from Photobox.co.uk The quality of their posters are absolutely superb – it’s pretty amazing to see some of your own photos so large! Until 30th November 2010 they are offering 2 for 1 on...

Nov 14, 2010

Google is fantastic, there is no doubt about that. And yet, there are times when I’m searching for photography-related things, and the top results on Google end up being from photography shops, all using the same generic product descriptions, or even sites that have blatantly copied other people’s articles and guides – in short, sometimes the...

Sep 15, 2010

If you’re in the UK (sorry, outside-of-UK readers!) then you may be interested to know that Channel 5 have started a new TV series, called ‘How To Take Stunning Pictures‘. It actually began last night (Tuesday), and it was only by chance that I caught it – If I’d known about it earlier, I would have done this ‘heads-up’...

Aug 13, 2010

Yep, we know, as budding amateur photographers, that the flash on our little compacts are nowhere near strong enough to illuminate a concert photo, but, though we may silently scoff at people who do it (go on, admit it, you have had a little inward grin at those times, havent you?), wouldn’t it be fantastic to see thousands of those little flashes all...

Jul 29, 2010

So far on LearningTheLight.com, I’ve not tended to talk about the video side of DSLRs – but that’s about to change. Although many people buy DSLRs for their photographic prowess, more and more are investing because of their fantastic video quality: high-definition, the ability to use all different types of lenses, and great overall quality mean...