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Home / Archives for Matt Chesebrough

How to Achieve Your Vision Through Effective Photo Editing

January 22, 2021 by Matt Chesebrough

In this article, you’ll learn how to define a vision for your photographs, examine tools and techniques you can use to edit your photos to achieve your vision, and see an example edited from start to finish using Lightroom.

Light Painting Experiments to Improve Your Photography

June 4, 2020 by Matt Chesebrough

In this article, through a couple of different experiments you’ll learn the basics of light painting and explain some of the science going on behind the scenes in this unique long exposure photography technique.

How to do Stunning Milky Way Photography

January 29, 2020 by Matt Chesebrough

In this article, you will learn how to do Milky Way photography. Tips for how to choose a location, when to plan to head out, minimum equipment requirements, and how to compose astrophotography scenes that will wow your friends and family.

How to Create More Interesting Mountain Photography

November 12, 2019 by Matt Chesebrough

When you return from a trip are you disappointed that your mountain photos don’t seem to contain the same sense of scale and wonder that you witnessed firsthand? In this article, I’ll provide some suggestions for improving your mountain photography.

How to do Better Mobile Phone Photography – 7 Easy Tips

October 9, 2019 by Matt Chesebrough

In this article, I’ll give you 7 easy to follow tips to help you do better mobile phone photography. Take your cell phone photos up a notch.

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