No matter what type(s) of photography you like to pursue, mastering exposure is key to creating successful images. While it can be tempting to use your camera's screen to judge exposure, that display ...

Image histograms are useful tools that can be used to help properly gauge the exposure and contrast within a scene during shooting or to balance the tonality of a photograph in post-production. These ...

If you're a geek like me, you love to reverse-engineer images you come across, view EXIF data, or otherwise pull as much info out of an image you like as possible. A recently released browser ...

Before we begin this article, we want to explain that any photographer should always prioritize being artistic and having a creative vision above any technical aspect. But the two can work together ...

Straightening, cropping, and removing red-eye are all fairly easy fixes to make to a photograph. Getting good tones, on the other hand, can be a more challenging problem. iPhoto’s Enhance button tries ...

When photographers generally shoot, they generally become satisfied simply by chimping the LCD screen of the camera and falling in love with the image they just created. But when you send it to the ...

How to use the histogram displays in your camera to improve your photos. All digital cameras are able to display a histogram on their LCD monitors and/or in their electronic viewfinders. It’s one of ...

Staring at a perfectly constructed histogram is like listening to an opera singer hit and hold a perfect note. But in trying to get that histogram to look like you're being told it should, you could ...

A couple of weeks ago we featured a Google Chrome extension for overlaying “rule of thirds” lines over any online photograph. Now we have a different tool for examining other photographer’s ...