Processing a photo in black and white changes the way you approach the image. And your color work can benefit from that.

Landscape photography requires patience. Yet there are things you can do in the field to streamline your workflow and be more productive.

Some locations need a little time before they grow on you. Shore Acres is a location like that for me.

Add pop to your photos with the Overlay blend mode in ON1 Effects. A technique as easy as 1 - 2 - 3.

The subjects you are willing to wait for is your insight into the type of photography you are passionate about.

Amp up your Lightroom workflow with a set of thoughtfully constructed presets that speed up the local adjustments you do again and again.

Did you know you can save masks in your Lightroom presets? Used wisely, this feature enables some very powerful presets.

Quickly make a classic luminosity mask that affects the highlights and upper midtones the most and the shadows the least. This post was inspired by a viewer question. Got a photo question? Ask me.

Crafting a strong black & white seascape starts with choosing the right camera profile.

For my style of seascapes, I tend to want to be a sea level, interacting up close with the ocean. Shore Acres is not that type of location, and it challenged me.

Overcast skies aren’t always featureless swaths of gray. There are often nuanced midtones that we can accentuate in post-processing.

The end of a year is a natural point to review your year of photography and look forward to what lies ahead in 2022.