Gabor Holtzer

One of the critical things that separate the photography pros from the amateurs is lighting skills. Today, I’m bringing you the best photography lighting courses I have reviewed on ExpertPhotography so far. 1. Lighting 3 by SLR Lounge The best lighting course I’ve reviewed in the past few months is…

With their Introduction to Lightroom course, Fstoppers is one of many companies seeking to make the powerful app more accessible to photographers. It’s aimed squarely at complete newbies and walks you through your first nervous steps in processing. So, if you are new to the world of Lightroom, is this…

The Fstoppers Photography 101 course is one of the best-known courses for beginners who want to get into photography. There’s no doubt that online courses are a great way to learn, and photography is particularly well-suited to the format. So the question is, is this course any good and is…

There are a few different ways to blur the background in Photoshop, each with its own benefits and drawbacks. In this tutorial, we’ll explore three of the most popular methods: layer masks, the Gaussian blur filter, and smart objects. We’ll also look at how to use each method to achieve…

The first thing you might notice about the Fujifilm X-T30 is just how stylish it is. The world is full of bland black plastic. And the metal and imitation black leatherette makes a powerful statement. But can it deliver thoroughly modern results from its very retro body? Read this review…

The wonderfully retro-looking Fujifilm X100F is a camera designed for the streets. DSLRs and mirrorless cameras take great photos, but they can be bulky, noisy, and a bit obvious. And compact cameras might lack image quality. Enter the Fujifilm X100F. It’s a rangefinder camera with a neat design, portability, and…

Learning how to use Adobe Lightroom can be daunting. Especially on your own. Contrastly are online specialists in training users in Lightroom and other products. Decoding Lightroom is a comprehensive online video course that’s designed for photographers who want to get the most out of their software subscription. This review…

Adobe Lightroom is a great tool. But if we’re honest, mastering Lightroom can be quite daunting. Perhaps equally daunting is choosing a course to help with learning its many capabilities. So it can be reassuring to learn that there is a course available from SLR Lounge. I’ve reviewed several of…

Wedding and portrait lighting is such a diverse topic. Many photographers get lost in the jungle of opportunities. It’s amazing what you can do with a single, modified flash – let alone with multi-flash, elaborate setups. But to figure them out by yourself requires a ton of creativity, knowledge, and…

When does a “good photo” become “powerful imagery?” Mitchell Kanashkevich knows a thing or two about this. The award-winning photographer and Panasonic LUMIX ambassador has written an e-book, Powerful Imagery, for Photzy. In it, he guides us through case studies to help us improve our creative output. How successful is…

Lighting 4 from SLR lounge is part of a series of courses from SLR Lounge. Having explored off-camera lighting in the previous course, they now look at how to create natural-looking lighting with artificial sources. If you want to know how successful they have been with this six-hour course, then…

Even with all the modern advances in camera and lens technology, photographing the Milky Way is still a challenge. So much so that SLR Lounge has a whole course devoted to it. It contains two hours of lessons on the intricacies of capturing this magical celestial phenomenon. So, is Photographing…