Photo by Bob Jagendorf Last week I was traveling in Canada and had an opportunity to catch up with a friend there who is into digital photography. He showed me a series of shots of Autumn leaves that were really wonderful. I thought I’d share a couple of his techniques today and tomorrow: One series [...]
Photo by carpe icthus The following guest tip on The Beauty Of Large Aperture In Digital Photography was submitted by Amy Renfrey – author of the Digital Photography Success ebook. In digital photography there is one thing that, for crisp images, you simply must know about. And that’s the proper use of your aperture. When [...]
One of the topics I’m regularly asked about is Lightning Photography. Photographing lightning is an exciting yet often frustrating task. The results can be spectacular but they are also partly based upon luck and more often than not the shots are not what you’d expect. Note: check out our How to Photograph Lightning tutorial. As [...]
“Darren I love digital photography but one of my greatest frustrations is that I when I’m out using my camera I will check how my images look on my camera and they look fantastic but when I get home and upload them to my computer they are look quite average, usually blurry or slightly out [...]
Photo by Brainless Angel At a recent wedding I handed my camera over to a friend to take a shot of my little family and I. We posed for a few shots, looking forward to getting home to see how they turned out (it’s amazing how few shots we have with the three of us [...]
Over at our Discussion Group one of our members have started a new thread asking for readers Best Building Pictures. Great idea (thanks Oceanik) so if you’re into architectural photography head over and share your work – and if you’ve got some tips for taking great shots of buildings – feel free to share them [...]
Photo by Könrad The following guest tip on Low Light Photography Without Using A Flash was submitted by Amy Renfrey – author of the Digital Photography Success ebook. I’ll be back from my short break tomorrow. Digital photography is easy- when you have plenty of light and the conditions are ideal. But, as you may [...]
Photo by stoneth One thing some photographers and filmakers talk about is ‘seeing in black and white.’ Whether they are shooting in black and white or colour, seeing in B&W is a useful skill to learn. If you can ignore the colour, you can tell whether an image will work or not when converted (or [...]
Photo by Wam Mosely When is blur good in a photo and when is it bad? In my previous post on getting your digital images sharp I suggested quite a few ways of eliminating blur from images and keeping them as sharp as possible. However sometimes blur is good and will improve your images no [...]
Photo by Dale (Ling Gondaeng) Getting your digital images perfectly sharp is something that most photographers want – however clean, crisp, sharp images can be difficult to achieve. Perhaps before we start exploring how to improve sharpness it would be good to talk about the main causes for lack of sharpness: Poor Focus – the [...]
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