
Latest Tutorials
Want to make a desert road stand out in your photo? Learn how to use Lightroom’s masking tools to enhance leading lines and guide the viewer’s eye deeper into the scene.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Lightroom’s masking tools to selectively target the mist in your photo, giving it more presence and definition against the rugged coastline.
In this tutorial, I walk you through a series of masking techniques in Lightroom to tame the exposure challenges of a mountain sunset scene.
Light shapes your story, and Lightroom gives you the tools to mold it. Mastering Light & Shadow will teach you into how to read the light in your photos, control it with intention, and shape it to match the story you want to tell.
Learn how to transform a flat, backlit photo into a striking, powerful image by shaping light and shadow. In this live edit, I’ll show you how to use Lightroom’s masking tools—and why selective brightening and darkening makes all the difference.
A handful of local adjustments seemed enough to guide the eye toward a forgotten doorway—until curiosity pushed the edit further. Join me as I shape light and shadow, exploring “what if” moments that transformed the mood of this abandoned whaling station.
When you use a series of masks to shape light and shadow, you control the visual narrative of your photo. In this quick tutorial, I’ll show a the series of small changes that guides the viewer to a village at the valley floor of Sacred Valley, Peru.
When you take command of light in your edits, you take command of the story your image tells.
Revisit a 10-year-old photo with me and see how much can change when you focus on visual storytelling over time. By reshaping light and refining tone, you’ll see how an image becomes more natural, stronger, and more compelling with a more mature vision.
An unscripted black and white edit, shaping a foggy morning of boats into a high key, dreamlike scene. From raw frame to final image, it’s all about light, mood, and letting the photograph lead the way.
Blue color cast in your landscape photo? Get natural color back without losing your mood with just two adjustments.
Capture To Completion
My In The Field and In Post series on YouTube takes you out in the field as I seek my next photo. Back in the studio, get editing and post-processing insights for the captured images.
Supercharge your dodging and burning by intersecting a luminance range mask with a brush. Get professional-grade results with minimal effort.
The brilliant light lasted merely minutes… though while it did Valley Of Fire State Park lived up to its name.
Can’t capture at golden hour? Use Lightroom’s Calibration tool or ON1 Photo RAW’s Channel Mixer to boost vibrance in your mid-day landscape images.
Going to Antarctica via Ushuaia? Take an extra day in Argentina and hike the trail from Playa Susana.
Learn how to create a vintage 1970s look in just a few minutes using ON1 Effects.
It took several visits to Rehoboth Beach to catch the soft glow of sunrise on the boardwalk.
Stuck with harsh, unflattering mid day light? There are some steps you can take in post-processing to draw out color and depth.
There are photo opportunities all along the hike to Emerald Pools in Zion National Park.
Even when the preview on your camera or the unprocessed RAW looks terrible, don’t dismiss the image!
A break in the Oregon rains meant some camera fun at Strawberry Hill on the Oregon Coast.
Free Photography Tutorials

The histogram isn’t just a technical chart—it’s a storyteller’s map. When you understand how each slider connects to specific tonal regions, you gain precise control over light and mood in your photos.