Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, by COAP Online

After a full-on day at an airshow or on a busy airfield, the hardest part is often yet to come. You’ve got to get through the volume of images, finding the time, patience and discipline to do so.

The good news is that - whilst it might feel like it at th...

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, by COAP Online


“Contrast without crunch” is a useful editing phrase to have in the back of your mind when you’re editing your aviation images. It’s the difference between an image that feels striking and professional, and one that feels harsh, gritty, or over-processed...

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, by COAP Online

The rule of space is one of the fastest ways to improve aviation photography composition, especially if images often feel ‘cramped’ even when the aircraft is sharp and you’ve nailed the action itself.

At its core, the rule of space means giving your subj...

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, by COAP Online

Dull skies are one of the most common frustrations in aviation photography editing. A great aviation moment can look flat simply because the sky behind it has no separation, no tone, and no shape.

The mistake is trying to fix that with one aggressive mov...

By Keiran Wilkinson with contributions from Howard Bassant

One of the highlights of our COAP Online community calendar is the High Roller, our monthly competition where members share their best images based on a specific, challenging theme. These usually occur exclusively within our member communit...

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, by COAP Online

Manual mode gets misunderstood as a “hard mode”. In aviation photography, it’s often the opposite. It’s the simplest way to make your exposure predictable and your creative choices repeatable.

The real problem: the background won’t sit still

At an airsh...

By Keiran Wilkinson

As many members of the COAP community know, I have been a devoted user of the Olympus E-M1X for the last couple of years, and before that, various Olympus EM-1 cameras. For me, Olympus (now OM System) cameras defined reliability. My E-M1X was a tough camera that  I could trust i...

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, by COAP Online

If Lightroom ever feels like a maze of sliders, it’s usually because the edit started without a goal.

In aviation photography, “pretty good” edits often fall apart in one specific way: the aircraft looks like it belongs to one style, but the background a...

By Keiran Wilkinson with contributions from Dave Griffiths

One of the highlights of our COAP Online community calendar is the High Roller, our monthly competition where members share their best images based on a specific, challenging theme. These usually occur exclusively within our member communit...

By Kev Baxter

It was not just the friends of Jean-Baptiste Salis who had a passion for aviation.  Kev Baxter reports from the recent Ian Allan Aviation Tour to France, where the wrecks and relics may have been crusty and weather-beaten, but the allure of Gallic aviation kept them young, sprightly a...

By Aled Phillips

Clifton Cameras Quarterly Tech Round-up Q2 2025

A slower Q2 for 2025 after a bumper start with lots of exciting releases in quick succession as the new year came into effect.

I’m pleased to say I’ve managed to get hands on with a lot of the list from Q1, and some standout favouri...

By Dave Lockwood

With this years Spotters Day being such a success it couldn’t get any better could it? With some
trepidation we moved to the Mountains of the Peloponnese in search of low flying aircraft.

Whilst the first week of the exercise proved to be fruitful, the second hadn’t with a combinat...