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...

Lightroom 9.0 is a big release with a mix of long-requested workflow tools and a few editing upgrades that quickly become “can’t live without.” Below is a hands-on tour of the features I think will matter most day-to-day, plus tips to get better results right away.   Assisted Culling (Early Acc...

For this episode of Then and Now, I returned to a photo I shot back in 2012 at the Vista House in Oregon. At the time, I was deep into HDR—shooting nine brackets for nearly every scene and tone mapping them in Photomatix. Looking at that old edit today, it has all the telltale signs of early HDR ...

When I upgraded to my new iPhone 17 Pro Max, I decided not to restore from my old phone’s backup. Instead, I set everything up from scratch. Doing this forced me to carefully choose which apps to reinstall and dig through their settings. When I got to Lightroom for Mobile, I rediscovered a bunch ...

Back in 2014, I captured one of my favorite sunrise scenes at Tallow Beach in Byron Bay, Australia. The composition, timing, and conditions came together beautifully, and I was happy with my original edit at the time. But now—over a decade later—with new tools, techniques, and an evolved editing ...