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RAW vs JPEG: Which Should You Shoot?
Photography Tips

RAW vs JPEG: Which Should You Shoot?

If there’s one question that comes up time and again — in photography forums, in workshops, from students I’ve taken out into the field — it’s this one. RAW or JPEG? And it’s a fair question, because the answer genuinely depends on what kind of photography you’re doing and what you want to achieve with your images.

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Lake Bled Best Photo Spots

Lake Bled doesn’t really have a bad angle — but it does have a handful of spots that separate a nice holiday snap from the image people stop scrolling for. I’ve spent years photographing this lake through every season and running private workshops here, watching the same view change completely between a misty 6am and a clear autumn evening. This guide rounds up the exact viewpoints I keep coming back to, how to reach each one, and when to be there so you’re not sharing a few square metres of ground with fifty other tripods.

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How to read a camera histogram
Photography Tips

The Camera Histogram Explained

I’ve been shooting landscapes for a long time, and one of the single biggest improvements I ever made to my photography had nothing to do with buying a new lens or upgrading my camera body. It was simply learning to trust the histogram over my own eyes.

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First flowers of spring (crocuses) on the meadow leading up to the church of Saint Thomas, situated in the remote village of Gorenji Vrsnik, Slovenia.
Slovenia

Spring in Slovenia – Flowers and Snowcapped Mountains

It starts gently. Weeks before the mountain passes clear and the tourist coaches roll in, something remarkable happens in the hillsides and meadows. Tens of thousands of crocuses and other spring flowers push up through still, cold grass, carpeting the hillsides in soft violet and mauve almost overnight. They don’t announce themselves. You simply round a bend, and there they are.

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