Tag Archives : basics

By Fredrik Silverglimth In Photography, your lens is often your most important purchase. This photography tutorial outlines some important qualities of different lenses, and how each performs in identical situations. Choosing a lens is often more difficult then choosing a camera when it comes to purchasing. One thing to remember is that a lens will last several times longer than digital cameras. [...]

By Fredrik Silverglimth What is RAW? RAW is an image format that is used in many D-SLR cameras. There is no standard file extension, every camera developer (and some software tools) have their own extension — but the backbone is the same. The RAW format captures what the camera sees and stores it together with the metadata information in the file. In fact, every camera shoots in “RAW”, but if [...]

By Fredrik Silverglimth Exposure There are 3 parts of exposure that you should understand. The following examples ought to illustrate how these 3 components of exposure interact with one another. Example 1 You take a photograph with the following settings: ƒ/8, 1/250s and ISO 100 But let’s say you want to freeze the object more, which requires a faster shutter speed, you can either change the [...]

Learn how to get those steady shots, both with the help of tripods, monopods, and additionally with your bear hands. These tips are guaranteed to improve your stability while taking photographs! To get good photographs you usually have to hold the camera steady. Sometimes a blurry photograph or one in motion can be desired, but most of the time it’s unwanted. The most common equipment to help counter [...]

By Fredrik Silverglimth Blurry Images Caused by Poor Focus Photos that aren’t sharp are almost always caused by focus problems — either you, or the auto focus didn’t do their job correctly. If you are using auto focus and still get blurred photos it might be because the camera used another focusing point rather than the one thought you intended to use. Another reason might be the setting of [...]

Composition is what seperates generic point-and-shoot photography from actual planned and thought out photography. Without knowing how to properly compose a picture, you may have a $3,000 camera, but will still be taking bland pictures. A camera is a tool, and no matter how simple or complex a tool is, the effectiveness of this tool relies on the operator. For an example, let’s use one of the [...]

Your lens is quite possibly the most important part of your camera. SLR and dSLR (digital SLR) cameras (and even some non SLR/dSLR) allow you to change out the lenses, to suit all of your photography needs. A good lens will produce sharp crystal-clear pictures with beautiful detail. A low quality lens can hinder you to the point where you’d be better off shooting with a disposable camera. Basically, [...]

By: Joanna Gerber Gorgeous landscapes, early morning fog lifting off the frozen lake, the glistening icicles on the tree branches. Photography opportunities meet you at every corner. When your winter vacation takes you to the secluded, covered in snow, corner of Ontario; and you just discovered that perfect winter paradise scene; now you want to get it on film, or store it for latter so you can plaster [...]

Written by: Andrew Goodall Photos by: Rory Mole "The One Tree" captured by Colin Jennings Black and white photography is a rewarding and challenging field of artistic photography. Even people who don’t care about photography can find themselves drawn to a great black and white image. As a photographer, black and white can allow you to discover a whole new character in a familiar subject. [...]

The use of light in a photograph can be the deciding factor of whether that picture will be spectacular or terrible.  When you use your camera to automatically chose aperture and shutter speed, what your camera is actually doing is using the built in light meter and measuring how much light is being reflected to the camera. But that doesn’t mean that’s all there is to it.  You should [...]

Composition is the combining of distinct parts or elements to form a whole.  In photography that thought is very important in taking good pictures.  The following guidelines are just to be thought about though, it is not necessary to try to use them with every picture you take or there wouldn’t be any creativity in your work.  Once you learn these rules and strategies you will be more prepared [...]

This video demonstrates the basic hands-on demonstration on Nikon’s new professional-grade speedlight of SB-900. If you are not so sure about SB-900′s “Light Pattern” – SB-900 can throw light in different directions: Above, Even, and Below http://www.youtube.com/v/8NRvTLqLvUQ?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Go here to read the rest: Nikon SB-900: The Basics Technorati [...]