Technology Explained, Practice
Daniela Bowker
Resolution and pixels and image quality! Oh my! ...

When you hear the term 'high-res' thrown about with such abandon when it comes to images for web use, have you ever stopped to think just how big or how high quality and image meant for the web needs to be?

Resolution and pixels and image quality! Oh my! Saving images for the web
Feature Articles, Photography Theory
Haje Jan Kamps
Low-contrast photographs don't have to be boring

There's an assumption that high-contrast images are more dynamic, more compelling, more inviting. Have a go at some low-contrast photography. You might surprise yourself with the results.

Low-contrast photographs don't have to be boring
Feature Articles, Theory
Daniela Bowker
Seeking balance in your photos

Balance doesn't mean symmetry; it means an internal consistency and tension within your photos. And it's a vital element of composition. 

Seeking balance in your photos
Feature Articles, Photography Theory
Haje Jan Kamps
Training your photographic luck

Great photos might be down to a little bit of luck, but most of that 'luck' you make yourself. Don't believe us? Read on...

Training your photographic luck
Feature Articles, Practice
Daniela Bowker
The ups and downs and ins and outs of ...

Photographing buildings doesn't have to mean wide-angle lenses and fretting about correcting for the keystone effect. Any lens, and angle. Don't believe us? Let us show you!

The ups and downs and ins and outs of photographing buildings

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Anything you'd like to know about Lightroom 3?

This is what happens when you play with vibrance and saturation

When I was writing our review of Lightroom 3, I realised that I was amassing a list as long as an elephant’s trunk of questions that I’d like to put to the team who developed it. You know: ‘What was your starting point?’ ‘What’s your favourite feature in the programme?’ ‘What snack-food sustained you when you were up against a deadline?’ All the important things about a piece of software. Lo and behold, when I asked them, the lovely people at Adobe said that I could put my bizarre and possibly mundane series of questions to Tom, who worked on Lightroom 3.

Now of course I’m slightly worried that my obsession with snack-foods and other banalities might drive the poor guy to distraction or the entire exercise will descend into a debate on the superiority of peanut M&Ms over chocolate ones. But I think I have a solution! If you’re the people reading the interview, what is it that you’d like to know? If there’s something about Lightroom that you’ve never been able to figure out or something you’ve always wanted to understand the theory behind, now’s your chance! Drop your question in a comment (before Wednesday 13 October), and I’ll do my best to put it to Tom.

I can’t guarantee that I’ll be able to ask your specific question, but unless you ask, you’ll never know! Over to you…