Every photographer has to struggle with a lack of light every now and then. There are lots of ways to tackle this problem. Take a look at what your options are here when you’re shooting without a flash.

To truly know your way around your photos, you need to keep them organized. Keywords will help you with this. Use them to supplement your photos with information that you aren't able fit into their names. And make it easy to later find, for example, all the photos with your grandma or your uncle Joe.

Even when you’re shooting portraits outdoors, you can still have your light under control. You just have to take advantage of combined light—that is, artificial plus natural light. It’s generally ideal if you can keep the two light sources in balance. It’s best of all if your audience can’t even tell that you used both types of light.

To keep your pictures free of motion blurring, you want to shorten your exposure times. But sometimes that’s just not possible. At those times you should concentrate on holding your camera right instead.

Landscape photography and panoramas are among the most popular photographic genres. But some photographers are afraid they won’t be skilled enough to join photos into a panorama. And yet it’s just a few clicks on a computer.

Diffraction, that is, the bending of light, is a problem that’s encountered by many photographers. But they often don’t even realize it. Meanwhile, diffraction can make your photos lose sharpness. And that’s something that most photographers want to avoid. So it’s good to know what causes diffraction and how to avoid it—and also how to take advantage of it.

Mysterious and impressive. That’s what you can expect from silhouettes. Taking these pictures may seem simple at first, but for an impressive final result, you have to follow a few rules. Get to know them.

Noise-filled photographs complicate every photographer’s life from time to time. Fortunately, you can reduce a photo’s noise significantly with computer edits. Take a look at how.

One prerequisite for good exposure is a good choice of aperture. The aperture affects how much light makes it through the lens and onto the camera’s sensor. And another important thing—background blurring—depends on it too.

Artificial light has one large advantage—you have it entirely under your control, and there’s nothing to hold you back from your creative goals. So learn to master flashes and continuous lights, and you’ll take your portrait photographs to the next level.