Bryan Peterson has written a book titled Understanding Exposure which is a highly recommended read if you’re wanting to venture out of the Auto mode on your digital camera and experiment with it’s manual settings. In it Bryan illustrates the three main elements that need to be considered when playing around with exposure by calling [...]
Traveling and photography go hand in hand for many of us. New sights are a feast for the eyes and those of use with strong photographic intentions love capturing the color and life we find on (digital) film for sharing back home. Or sometimes just for our own enjoyment. One subject that comes up time [...]
Photo michah I recently took a trip to the zoo to do a test on a camera that I was reviewing and thought I’d share a few tips that I put into practice along the way. Zoos are great locations to practice photography as they present us both with a great variety of subjects (both [...]
Photo by Maharepa With Halloween just a few days away I thought it was time to update our Halloween Photography Tips article with some new information and photos. Photography Tips to Keep in Mind for Halloween There are plenty of subjects around to photograph at Halloween ranging from the traditional jack-o-lantern through to people in [...]
This guest post on Pet Photography was submitted by Antoine Khater at All Day I Dream About Photography. Image by José Luna Pets fill very quickly their place in our hearts and families and we enjoy having their pictures framed on our desk or wall! However taking pictures of your best friend is not always [...]
Photo H@Ru Earlier in the week I had the chance to sit down with a photographer whose specialty is photographing flowers. As I tend to do with pro photographers – picked his brain as we chatted and took as many notes as I could. Here’s what I gleaned from him and his flower photography experience: [...]
Photo by naughton321 “Look where the sun is coming from – then position yourself with your back towards it so that it light up your subject’s face.” This was the very first piece of photographic advice that I was ever given as a child entrusted with the family’s camera for a school excursion. The intention [...]
Image by Peter de Krom I normally talk about the importance of using a flash when taking shots into the sun to give sufficient light to add features to your subject but there are also times when making your subject featureless apart from their outline against a bright background can be most effective – or [...]
Pin It Image by Ahmed Zahid ‘No good travel photo album is complete without the token sunrise or sunset picture!’ Many travelers seem to live by this mantra – however most sunset and sunrise photographs that I see are quite disappointing. They need not be – sunsets and sunrises are not that difficult to photograph! [...]
Odds are you have seen some of the more recent grand offerings from masters of time lapse photography, such as Randy Halverson and Terje Sorgjerd. DPS also has a post on how to shoot these types of videos using a camera and something known as an intervalometer. But what is this device and what does [...]
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