The importance of cleaning your lenses.
Photographers: hands up who routinely cleans their lenses? I admit it; I don't. If I spot something really obvious I'll give it a quick wipe with a lens cloth. After processing a recent shot though, I think I'll have to change my ways. For comparison, here is the shot before and after I'd cloaned out the muck and spots in Photoshop. The spots are quite visible across the top of the image. I was quite annoyed when I saw it to be honest and I'll make sure I don't make the same
The importance of shooting RAW
I wanted to share a photography tip that I wish I'd followed when I was a photography beginner. When I started out I didn't shoot in RAW, I shot exclusively JPEG. For three reasons: 1 - I didn't entirely understand what shooting RAW was, nor how useful - nay, essential - it is. 2 - I felt some kind of misplaced superiority from being able to claim all my work was "straight out of camera". 3 - I wanted instant results (I was lazy). What is shooting in RAW? For the beginner to
