Early in my career as a working photographer, I shot a wedding. It was my first—and last—for a number of reasons. But one piece of feedback from that experience has stayed with me ever since. Before delivering my initial edits to the couple, I shared them with a trusted friend who was an experie...

One of the most useful exercises a photographer can do is revisit old work. Not to criticize it harshly, but to understand how both tools and personal taste evolve over time. In this fourth installment of my Then and Now editing series, I went back to a photo I captured in 2010 during my first vi...

A new year always feels like a good time to reset habits, and that applies just as much to photo editing as it does to photography itself. Over the years, I’ve noticed a handful of Lightroom mistakes that I’ve made repeatedly—sometimes knowingly, sometimes out of habit. None of them are catastrop...

If there’s one topic guaranteed to spark strong opinions among photographers, it’s AI. Some love it, some dislike it, and many are unsure where they stand. I’m not here to convince you one way or another. My only goal is to help you understand the tools available in Lightroom so you can make info...

Every now and then, it’s worth revisiting old photos—not to cringe at past choices, but to see how far you’ve come. Our tools evolve, our taste evolves, and more often than not, a fresh look at a familiar photo reveals new possibilities. That’s the thinking behind my Then and Now series, and for ...

Every so often, a new tool gets added to Lightroom that seems subtle at first glance but ends up having a profound impact on how you edit your photos. One such tool—quietly introduced in the Lightroom 9.0 update at Adobe Max 2025—is the new Color Variance slider inside the Point Color panel. Whi...