Focus Stacking

Video Tutorials

How to Photograph Wildlife in a Landscape (Without Sacrificing Either)

Every landscape photographer eventually faces this problem: you spend an hour composing the perfect shot, and then something living walks into the frame and ruins your plan. Or, if you’re lucky, it makes your plan ten times better. The difference between those two outcomes usually comes down to whether you’ve thought about wildlife as a compositional element before the animal shows up, not after. That’s the core lesson I took from this William Patino tutorial filmed during his encounters with kea, the world’s only alpine parrot, in the New Zealand mountains.

September 16, 2026

Video Tutorials

How to Shoot Fine Art Photos of Everyday Objects Using Focus Stacking

I have a confession: one of my most-shared photos ever is a close-up of a half-eaten granola bar sitting on my kitchen counter. Shot on my phone, terrible lighting, zero planning. People went wild for it. That experience taught me something I’ve been chewing on ever since – the subject almost never matters as much as the perspective you bring to it. That’s the core idea behind this Peter McKinnon tutorial, where he photographs a five-cent gummy bear alongside a $50,000 Phase One IQ4 camera system and makes the case that fine art isn’t about the subject.

July 19, 2026