My Photo Culling Method: The 2-Pick-1 Technique
Culling photos doesn't have to mean guessing which shots you already remember liking. My 2-pick-1-and-repeat method compares every photo head-to-head, narrowing hundreds of images down to your strongest work — fast, fair, and free of bias.
Why Copying Someone Else's Style Might Be the Best Way to Find Your Own
If you spend any time in r/AskPhotography, you'll notice a recurring type of post: someone shares a photo and asks how it was made. Often, the image barely reads as a photograph at all — outside a few sharp, in-focus elements, the rest looks more like a painting. It's a small window into a bigger shift: these days, there's a growing assumption that any photo's "look" should be reproducible with a handful of simple adjustments...
Design Your Process to Shorten the Parts You Don’t Like — So You Can Spend More Time on What You Do
I’ve learned to design my workflow so the boring parts disappear. As a data scientist and photographer, streamlining the 80% I don’t enjoy lets me spend more time on the 20% I love — shooting, creating, and discovering.
Why I Only Shoot With One Lens (And Why You Might Want To Try It)
Most photographers carry extra lenses “just in case.” I stopped doing that years ago. Shooting with one lens has made my photography lighter, simpler, and more focused—and helped me make better photos in the process.