Tutorials
Over the time I have been blogging, there have been various posts that people keep going back to for information so this page is intended to be a way for me to consolidate those links and also link to specific tutorial posts that I write from time to time.
General Photography
I’ve been a keen photographer for the best part of 30 years and, while I don’t consider myself a real expert (we all keep learning forever, don’t we?), I’ve probably picked up a few hints and tips along the way that could be useful to others. This section contains links to these hints and tips and some posts which relate to general photography and my approach to it.
- Random Hints – safe shutter speeds, how to hold a camera, etc.
- Real Photographers Shoot In Manual (or not)
- Shooting Skylines at Night
- Dramatic Sharpening in Photoshop
- The iPhone as a Photographer’s Tool
- Lessons From my Utah Landscape-Shooting Week
- Getting a Different Perspective
HDR Photography
There are a huge number of HDR tutorial already available on the web but I still get asked questions about how I shoot and process HDR images so this is my take on the craft. I would encourage you to take a look at other HDR tutorials too, though, since I find it helps to have several different people’s impressions when I’m learning something new.
- HDR Tutorial, Part 1 – What is HDR all about?
- HDR Tutorial, Part 2 – Shooting for HDR
- HDR Tutorial, Part 3 – Generating an HDR Image
- HDR Tutorial, Part 4 – HDR Tone Mapping
- HDR Tutorial, Part 5 – My Tone Mapping Settings
- Musings on Dynamic Range, Bits and Stops
- HDR Notes for PhotoNetCast Listeners
- Other HDR sites and tutorials I recommend

