I’ve moved a lot during my adult life, and in a few months I’ll be packing up and heading cross-country once again. While I was born and raised in New York City, Boston was the first city I lived in that wasn’t home. I was there during some very formative years as a photographer, and I have the o...

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...

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...