Posts

How To Take Amazing Landscape Photos Using Phone's Camera

Image
Whether you use an iPhone or Android phone, we've got the top tips for taking better landscape photos. The latest crop of  phones  like the  iPhone 11 ,  11 Pro ,  Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus ,  OnePlus 7 Pro  or  Google Pixel 4  have cameras on board that can snag the sort of beautiful photographs you'd normally expect to see coming from pricey DSLRs. I've already  put the iPhone 11 Pro to the test on a road trip around Scotland  and was amazed by the results I could get. In this guide, I'm going to take you through how to take landscape photos with your phone, whether you're heading into the rural countryside or deep into the heart of the mountains. While some of the tips apply to recent handsets with multiple lens options, many are relevant whether your phone is three months or three years old,  Apple  or Android. Some shots require some additional hardware; getting a slow shutter shot of a waterfall, for example, ...

5 Common Mistakes to Avoid as a Landscape Photographer

Image
Landscape photographer  Mads Peter Iversen  has put together a helpful video where he covers 5 “crucial” mistakes to avoid in landscape photography. Crucial might be an overstatement, but the video points out five of the most common mistakes you’ll see from novice landscape shooters in particular. Iversen covers five mistakes that he believes apply to everyone from novice all the way to advanced shooters. But in our experience, these are much more common with beginners, and most intermediate and advanced landscape photographers eventually “grow out of” falling into these common traps. The five  faux pas  are: Not Going Out  – Specifically, allowing “gloomy” weather to be the reason you don’t get out and shoot. You’re missing out on some incredible photo opportunities if you only shoot in perfect, golden hour conditions. Not Learning from Your Mistakes  – Pay as much attention to your mistakes as your successes, you’ll learn much more from the...

The Best Tools To Edit Photos On A Chromebook

Image
The Chromebook is a stripped-down laptop that makes on-the-go computing more affordable and accessible to those on a tight budget (well, if you ignore the $1,000 Pixelbook). But as with anything that has been scaled down, the Chromebook comes with limitations. Unlike laptops running Windows or MacOS, a Chromebook doesn’t allow users to directly install programs, which makes high-bandwidth creative tasks like video editing almost impossible. But what about photo editing? Well, you won’t be able to enjoy a full Photoshop experience, but there are other options worth a look. The best photo editing tools for Chromebook Polarr Polarr is our number one pick when it comes to editing your images on a Chromebook. One of its most significant advantages is that, unlike other software, you can import and edit photos even without an internet connection. You get two options with Polarr; free or paid subscription ($3.50 per month). The free version gives you access to basic l...

How To Choose A Cloud Service For Your Mobile Photography

Image
Now that most people — even those who are serious about photography — are using smartphones for many or most of their photos, it’s a good time to look past the quality of those images to a robust workflow that includes not just editing, but organizing and storing them reliably. Stories of laptops getting stolen or destroyed and taking all of a person’s photos with them are quickly being replaced by sad tales of lost or crushed phones. Organizing and storage solutions span the gamut from simple to complex, with a variety of pros and cons. We’ll take you through some of the options and the tradeoffs. Google Photos: The Roach Motel of Cloud Photo Storage Perhaps the most popular solution to both processing and storing smartphone images is Google Photos. It can automatically sync images your phone to Google’s servers, where you can get at them from anywhere. This useful capability has some issues, though. First, unless you pay for storage, or have a newish Pixel, your images aren...