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"Now I'm not sure if anyone else will relate to this, but sometimes the things we're photographing look too much like the things we're photographing," says photographer Thomas Heaton. What the heck does this mean?
Heaton continues, explaining that sometimes when photographing a subject he really enjoys, he doesn't get...
"I absolutely love a pano," remarks photographer Thomas Heaton in the introduction to a recent video. "You know what I love more than a pano? A film pano," he continues. The video below is part love letter to panoramic film photography and part review of Noble Design's new 6x17 and 6x12 lightweight film cameras. The ND...
Improvements in camera equipment make photography easier and more accessible. New camera models often feature incredible advancements in autofocus, automatic exposure, and burst shooting speeds, allowing photographers to capture more tack-sharp, well-focused images. However, photographer Thomas Heaton prefers to make...
A photography trip to a wonderful location, but no photos? This is almost what happened to landscape photographer Thomas Heaton during a recent camping trip. With camp set up in a beautiful location in Lake District National Park in northwest England, Heaton was surrounded by a lovely vista and peaceful scenes.
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Landscape photographer Thomas Heaton isn't a fan of change. For this reason, and a few others, Heaton hadn't updated Adobe Lightroom in a long time. He had a workflow that worked for him. However, Heaton finally updated Lightroom, and, as it turns out, he's happy he did because he has found some new tools to help his...
Photographer Thomas Heaton recently sent his Fujifilm X-T3 camera to Protech Photographic to have it converted to infrared for black and white landscape photography. Heaton settled on a 720nm filter, which is considered a "classic" or "standard" infrared filter. It allows for some visible light and generally delivers...
I think that landscape photography is difficult enough as it is. But photographer Thomas Heaton is always up for new and exciting challenges. Heaton met up with his friend Higgy whom he met at university. Every so often, Higgy invites Heaton along for a physically-taxing undertaking. This time, it was the Yorkshire Three...
Even an experienced, talented photographer like Thomas Heaton can come up empty on a landscape photography expedition. Most of the time, a rough day of landscape photography is due to bad light or weather. Sometimes, as we'll see in the video below, it's a mixture of bad luck and misjudging a scene. We often think about...
Photographer Thomas Heaton recently went on a hiking excursion with Nick Livesey, who offers guided mountain walks and photography workshops in North Wales. On the first day, the views were stunning. However, the sky was essentially cloudless, which doesn't always make for the best landscape photos. But Heaton's latest...
Photographer Thomas Heaton has been shooting more frequently with film. While on a road trip to Scotland, Heaton decided to use his Fujifilm GX617 panoramic film camera. It's no secret that shooting with film is different than using a digital camera. In many ways, shooting with film is significantly more challenging....
Adobe Lightroom, both the Classic and newer CC versions, are very user friendly for a variety of reasons. One of the most intuitive and accessible way to process and edit your raw photos is through the user of sliders, such as exposure, contrast and saturation sliders, just to name a few. Photographer Thomas Heaton does...
Landscape photographer Thomas Heaton has captured many landscape images over the years. Accordingly, he has learned a lot along the way. Although very broad, Heaton wishes that he had gained an understanding of light and subject earlier. What he means by this is that after learning about landscape photography and...
Just outside of El Chalten in Patagonia, photographer Thomas Heaton wanted to capture a panorama of a beautiful mountain range. In the video below, we go behind the scenes with Heaton as he sets up his shot and captures the necessary images for a stitched panorama.
The first step is ensuring that your tripod is level....
In 2011, a visitor to Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia triggered a fire. This forest fire forever changed the park. Some affected species of trees have begun to regrow, but it takes them over a century to reach maturity, so the effects of the fire will be very long lasting. Photographer Thomas Heaton recently...
You can do a lot within Adobe Lightroom without ever needing to dive into Photoshop. While Photoshop is obviously very powerful and is sometimes a required part of a specific photography editing workflow, Lightroom remains the go-to and often sole software solution for many photographers. With recent Lightroom updates,...
Last week, photographer Thomas Heaton headed to the Peak District and did some misty early morning landscape photography. The weather was very foggy, which leads to moody scenes. When shooting in fog, you lose a lot of fine detail and sharpness in the scene, but by leaning into the conditions, you can capture images with...
Photographer Thomas Heaton was recently in Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park for a landscape photography conference. As one of the photographers invited to give presentations, Heaton was also there to lead groups during shooting expeditions. One of these expeditions was to the famous Mesa Arch in Arches...
In photographer Thomas Heaton’s latest video, there are a couple of particularly interesting and separate topics covered. Firstly, in Heaton’s previous video, he was photographing a picturesque scene when people walked into his composition and didn’t move before the nice light was gone. Some of his viewers commented that...
When shooting landscape images, deciding between a color photograph and a black and white one can be a very difficult decision. There are situations when the colors are nice, but a black and white image can still end up being more powerful. On the other hand, sometimes a scene which doesn’t work that well in color can...
In photographer Thomas Heaton's newest video, he opens by discussing the many wonderful aspects of landscape photography. It allows you to travel and explore, you get to become more involved with nature and the great outdoors and it can be very rewarding and enjoyable. Heaton recently headed north to Scotland for...