Ron Leach

Experienced Lightroom users understand why dodging and burning is an "essential" technique that enables them to control light and shadow for perfectly balanced tones through a scene. The standard approach typically works pretty well, but this tutorial reveals a unique trick that delivers absolute precision every time.

There's no doubt that Apple makes cutting-edge products, but when it comes to revealing how they work, well, not so much. That's why we often turn to experts like Evan Ranft to demonstrate the finer points for taking advantage of the iPhone's advanced camera features.

Many of us have busy schedules with jobs and other obligations that prevent from us being out in the field in early morning and late afternoon when Golden-Hour bathes the landscape with soft, beautiful tones. This means shooting in the middle of the day when high contrast and harsh illumination pose a difficult challenge.

Last week we posted an eye-opening tutorial describing common "myths" about ISO settings than can easily compromise the quality of landscape, nature, and wildlife photos. We're following up on that today by demonstrating how so-called "bad photography habits" may actually improve your imagery in several ways.