Why Sharing Your EXIF Data Is Mostly Useless (or Even Detrimental)

In the age of digital photography, we’ve become accustomed to an almost obsessive focus on technical specifications. Photographers, aspiring and professional alike, pore over sensor sizes, lens charts, and, perhaps most persistently, EXIF data. This embedded information, detailing everything from aperture and shutter speed to ISO and white balance, is often seen as a holyContinue reading “Why Sharing Your EXIF Data Is Mostly Useless (or Even Detrimental)”

What Is The Very Best Raw Editing Software In 2026?

Here is a question I get asked day in and day out, year in and year out; “Mark, what is the very best raw editing software that I should use?“. Today we will answer this question.  A bit of a backstory. As you all know, I am deeply involved in the photography world and partContinue reading “What Is The Very Best Raw Editing Software In 2026?”

What I’ve Learned In Two Decades Of Writing Online

Most of you know that I have been writing photography content for the last decade with my current onecameraonelens and ourlifeonfilm websites as well as my previous mgaphotography website (I do have other little websites I run, but they are not updated as much for to concentrating on the main websites). Well, in the decadeContinue reading “What I’ve Learned In Two Decades Of Writing Online”

My Year Long Project Is Complete! Here Is The Result.

As many of you know, during 2024 I had a year long project which seen me organise a selfie-portrait session each and every month without fail. The idea was to get good at a number of things. Firstly, of course, being confident in photographing myself. Secondly it was to practise the use of flash andContinue reading “My Year Long Project Is Complete! Here Is The Result.”

The benefits of writing raw to one card and jpeg to another.

Professional body cameras with two card slots quite often put people in a dilemma of which way to send data to the memory card (SD or other cards). So, here are six reasons why you might like to save raw files to one card and jpeg images to the other card… Plus a couple ofContinue reading “The benefits of writing raw to one card and jpeg to another.”