Each clear night, millions of stars shine over our heads. It’s an amazing display for stargazers and photographers alike. A star-filled night sky can be enhanced by natural phenomena like the aurora borealis, a flying comet, and even meteor showers. Be sure you’re ready for these events. We’ll tell you what you need and how to photograph comets, meteor showers, and stars.

Capturing the beauty of a landscape seems like a simple task, but the results don’t often match up to your experience. In this article, I show you how you can use Zoner Photo Studio X to edit landscape photos step-by-step.

Thinking about purchasing a landscape lens and not sure which to choose? We compared four NIKKOR lenses for the Nikon DX mirrorless Z series, including the Z fc and Z50. We tested factors important for landscape photography, including everything from weight and focusing to vignetting.

Drone photography is becoming increasingly popular. You can get unique shots from a bird’s eye view without needing to rent a private helicopter or plane. When choosing your drone, you might not only be influenced by quality and price, but did you know that you might need user registration and a pilot’s license?

I would travel to the ends of the world for landscape photography. You have to plan ahead when traveling for photography because you might have trouble replacing what you forgot at home. You might also have to walk to your chosen destination. What type of photography equipment do you need and what should you be prepared for as a landscape photographer?

With landscape photography, it may appear that something is not quite right at first glance. The sky is too bright, the forest in the background is too dark, and the river in the center of the photo is dull. When this happens, landscape photographers use a simple trick—local adjustments. Let’s see how they’re done.

Surely you’ve run into this before: you’re in a place that you want to show off through some great photos, but the weather is against you. There’s a dull gray sky with no room for creativity. You have a subject that’s interesting, but the rest is boring. In most cases you can make use of tone mapping, gradient filters and the like, but there are also cases where there’s no adjustment that can make the sky look good, and yet something does have to be done with it. There is one last resort—replacing the sky.

Presets make photo editing go faster. Because they can apply several of your frequently used operations at once. Presets keep you from having to set the same sliders to the same values again and again; it all just takes one click. The built-in presets aren’t a good fit for you? No problem. Zoner Photo Studio offers an easy way to create your own. It will save you work, and you’ll get to keep your own original editing style. 

Generally when photographing a landscape, you’ll try to capture faithful, saturated colors. But sometimes a different approach is in order: going black and white. Black-and-white landscapes have an immense magic to this day. But there are some golden rules for how to do this edit. And to get the best picture possible, it pays to follow them.

You have probably been somewhere and thought to yourself, “Wow, this is a true photographer’s paradise.” On the island of Madeira, this phrase takes on an entirely new meaning. The main reason is the island’s incredible diversity which is concentrated in a very small area. Imagine going from a tropical city at sea level to a mountain that’s over 1800m above sea level in an hour’s drive. If your goal is to try as many photographic scenarios as possible, then this is the place.