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Most beginning photographers are taught to shoot will the sun at their back and avoid composing scenes with the sun behind their subject. While that technique is super easy, it often results in photos that could best be described as snapshots.

Congratulations to the winners of GuruShot's Travel Stories photo challenge! Thank you to all the participants for sharing the magic of your adventures through stunning views, lively street scenes, and quiet moments that captured the spirit, uniqueness and beauty of different places around the world! 

The sky is  usually a critical element of nature scenes, landscapes, and many other photos you capture in the field, and here's what post-processing expert Matt Kloskowski says about this matter: "Before we can even work on the sky, we need to understand how to mask it before applying various tools and enhancements."

Lightroom is loaded with sophisticated tools that enable anyone to adjust colors to perfection. Unfortunately, many inexperienced users shy away from these transformational techniques because of a misconception that "advanced" means "too complicated for me."

Unless you live on flotsam near Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean, you've already heard that Adobe Photoshop is now 35 years old. Photographers, graphic artists and other visual creatives—but especially photographers—should by all means celebrate.

Skillful composition can make or break a photo, no matter how impressive a subject appears, and this fact holds true whether you're shooting landscapes, environmental portraits, macro imagery, and just about anything else. This quick tutorial reveals several powerful framing techniques employed by several shooters who really know their stuff.

We've featured post-processing tutorials for cleaning "dirty" photos, and others explaining various sharpening techniques. This helpful tutorial from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel does double duty by demonstrating a Lightroom workflow that tackles both tasks in one quick-and-easy edit.