I found myself looking through some old photographs Neil had taken of me years and years ago. For context, Neil and I are married and photograph weddings together all around Norfolk (UK). As I clicked through the gallery, I kept coming back to the same images.

They weren't the sharpest photographs or technically perfect (that'll make sense in a minute). But they had a dreamy, distinctive quality that made them feel different from everything else. They drew me in every single time.

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As a landscape photographer, I, like many others in this genre, take hundreds, if not thousands, of images every year. Some I like and others I love, but most of them stay on hard drives instead of being presented as prints, as they should be. However, what if we committed to printing more? 

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Blurry photos almost always come down to one of three things: the camera moved, the subject moved, or the lens focused on the wrong place. That is genuinely most of it. Once you can recognize which of the three is ruining a shot, the fix is usually fast and specific. This is a checklist you can run through before and after you press the shutter to catch each of those causes before it costs you the picture. 

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Not forcing the shot and being open to possibilities can make a big difference.

As with any photography genre, the desire to create an impressive landscape photo can get in the way of achieving an authentic shot. Letting that pressure take over can sometimes get you results that are technically sound but don’t make you proud or happy in the long run because they’re overdone. You may even eventually realize that these photos don't speak about you as a photographer.

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Portraits that fall flat usually trace back to a handful of choices made before and during the shoot, not to some missing gear or secret edit. Focal length, color, light, and how your subject moves all pull weight, and small shifts in each one add up fast. 

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Mushy, halo-ringed edges around trees and horizons have plagued Lightroom masks for years, and Adobe just added two sliders that clean them up. The fix works whether you use Lightroom Classic or the newer Lightroom. 

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