Lighting can make a serious difference to your photos.
The most recent example is this photo from subscriber Kilian Hofmann. Kilian entered a Curves competition with the following image:

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Professional reviews of photos are one of the best ways to improve your photographic skills. By studing what works and doesn’t work, you learn to shoot more ‘winners’ yourself.
Curtis Routh has kindly agreed to review the following photos for me. Curtis runs a photography business called LeaveTheCamera.com and his insights are very valued. Click on [...]

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In my very first tip, I recommend moving closer to your subject. Almost any shot will look better if you take two or three steps closer.
It works especially well on faces because when you fill the frame with your subject’s face, there is less clutter to draw the viewer’s eye away from the pleasing face.

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What is Opportunity Photography? It’s when you take images of a subject you didn’t expect to take images of when you picked up your camera.
One of my subscribers, Jeffrey Balliett, sent me some wonderful images of a fox that he saw in his back yard. Jeff was taking his camera to photograph a nesting hummingbird, [...]

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Sometimes, when our photos turn out blurry, it’s because of a focus problem. Your camera has set the focus point on the wrong part of the image. An example is in the image on the right. The camera’s focus point is outside leaving our subject (the boy) blurry and out of focus.

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