Alan Ranger Photography

06/10/2026

https://youtu.be/KGZ-253UIH0

02/10/2026

https://youtu.be/U4jBxcApJSQ?si=R_yGSiZb1fBOb74k

Photography is often taught the wrong way round. We teach the camer...

20/09/2026

https://youtu.be/oIWg-lfjJvQ?si=ifTu5ekFV7sM12Qx

Light is not white. It only looks white to you. Candlelight is deep...

20/09/2026

https://youtu.be/XQKSXO7IP-k?si=ylzN4AopKamF2iZa

14/09/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-dont-know-what-good-photograph-looks-like-alan-ranger-kvqte

You don't know what a good photograph looks like.

That's not an insult. It's why you can't stop editing.

The September issue of Light & Logic — closing the Wu Wei frame trilogy with the case for owning your own finish line.

When was the last time you looked at one of your photographs and knew — before anyone told you — that it was good?

ISSUE 5 - Sep 2026 The case for owning your own finish line Last month I wrote about the danger of pressing the shutter too soon — how the photograph you're chasing usually arrives, if you're still enough to let it come. This month I want to talk about the danger at the other end of the same proce...

08/09/2026

https://youtu.be/7t-n5WX3bXE?si=-9QkX7ZT5Y13aijn&t=1

"My photographs are not sharp." It's the most common complaint in p...

07/09/2026

https://youtu.be/VvkU-XAJYR0?si=p8x3CYMfSjkQ7lot

What is ISO in photography, and when should you actually shoot in M...

31/08/2026

https://youtu.be/mJjSQ4KVD4I?si=l5GaQfD86T_dqja3

Two photographs. Same camera. Same lens. Same person, standing in exactly the same place. One looks like a snapshot from a family barbecue. The other looks like it belongs in a magazine. The only creative setting that changed was one number — the aperture.

In this video Alan Ranger combines Lessons 02 and 09 from the Alan Ranger Photography Academy: Aperture and Depth of Field. They are the same conversation. Aperture is one of the main controls, and depth of field is what it does to your picture. Learn one without the other and you will always be guessing.

Two photographs. Same camera. Same lens. Same person, standing in e...

25/08/2026

https://youtu.be/upb8ZJYUhlE

18/08/2026

Unpopular opinion: "get out and shoot more" is terrible advice. The photographers I most admire shoot less — because they've learned the thing no workshop teaches: your camera should stay in the bag for the first ten minutes. Most pictures are made too soon, out of anxiety dressed up as diligence. Issue 4 of Light & Logic, on the stillness that comes before the frame. When did you last wait long enough for a scene to change in front of you — and did a better photograph arrive?

Issue 4: August 2026 The case for watching before you make Last month I wrote about emptiness inside the frame — the case for taking things out. This month I want to go one step earlier, to something that happens before the frame exists at all.