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Camera Settings for Action Photography: What a Horse Racing Shoot Taught Me About Getting Sharp Shots

Action photography has a way of exposing every weak link in your workflow, and I say that as someone who spent fifteen years in commercial studios where the subject sat still and waited for me. The first time a client asked me to shoot behind-the-scenes action footage for a campaign, I realized how badly my habits had calcified. I was half a second slow on every critical moment because my camera setup was optimized for product shots, not moving targets.

August 13, 2026

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Stop Babysitting Your Focus Point: A Landscape Photographer's Case for Wider AF Zones

There’s a particular kind of friction I recognize immediately when I watch photographers work in the field. It’s the same friction I see in post-production when someone is manually repeating a task that a well-built action could handle in a keystroke. The tool becomes the subject. The actual work gets pushed aside. In a recent tutorial, Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, Mark Denney describes coming back from a week of leading workshops in the Faroe Islands and noticing that photographers were spending more mental energy managing a tiny focus point than they were thinking about their compositions.

August 1, 2026

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Back Button Focus Is a Tool, Not a Religion — Here's How to Decide What's Right for You

I keep a spreadsheet that tracks every hour my Photoshop actions have saved me. I color-code my backup drives. I have a system for everything. So when I say that I spent years using a camera setting without ever stopping to ask whether it was actually helping me, that should tell you something about how deeply the mythology of back button focus runs in photography culture. Watch the full tutorial on YouTube

July 4, 2026