Learn photography from the light up
Free lessons from 25 years of professional photography and a physics degree: how light, filters and cameras actually work, so your pictures are deliberate instead of lucky.
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Four lessons, in the order I’d teach them.
Long exposure, step by step
Neutral density, shutter-speed math and the tripod routine behind silky water and streaking clouds.
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Infrared & black-and-white
Why foliage turns to white fire, how to choose a filter wavelength, and how to expose for it.
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Choosing filters
ND, variable ND, polarizers: what each one does, what to skip, and what to buy once.
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Impressionism with long exposure
How Monet, Renoir and Degas handled light and movement, and how a slow shutter and a moving subject get the same effect.
Read the lesson →Leica M11 Monochrom — taking one camera to both extremes, long exposure and infrared.
A trip to Leica in Wetzlar, Germany.
The Art and Science of Long Exposure
A 129-page guide, from your first 8-second frame to star trails, the Milky Way and the sun. Written by a physicist-photographer, with step-by-step methods you can follow at the tripod.
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