CameraCrazy

You’re up at 5 am, out the door to get to your predetermined spot, take 20 minutes to setup the tripod and really begin to wake up. The sun begins to rise and you start shooting like crazy before the crucial 15-30 minutes of great light is over. After you’re done you go home, download → Continue reading »

I ran across a few websites on the legal implications of photography. If you take enough pictures, eventually someone might complain and want you to stop. Should you? If you’re not sure of when you can and cannot take pictures take a look at these websites. Unfortunately the laws differ between and in some cases → Continue reading »

Bird photography can be a very peaceful serene experience, with the birds chirping, the warm morning sun radiating and enhancing there plumage and all types of behavior from birds in flight, fishing, or perching. However, as nice as that picture seems, bird photography can also be the most irritating, frustrating time as well when birds → Continue reading »

This is a guest post by Andy Wong touching upon the basics of composition (hopefully a series of posts will follow). Very often people taking up photography for the first time often wonder “what makes a good picture?” To address a component of this, I would like to bring to you a series of illustrated posts → Continue reading »

Digital photography has revolutionized the photographic processes. When film was the only way to take a picture, many photographers carefully planned their shots. Consider this, on the typical photo shoot, I often take roughly 300 pictures with my digital camera, if that was film my typical photo shoot would cost me about $170. I guess → Continue reading »

This post is more aimed at the beginner but still very useful as a refresher for more experienced shooters. When I got my first SLR camera I had thoughts about actually being able to take decent pictures. After all, finally I had a camera with a light meter, a broader range of focal lengths and a → Continue reading »

I wanted to pass this website along that I found quite a while back. Tamron has a great online Depth of Field tool that allows you to get familiar with how Depth of Field Changes when you change the aperture and lenses’ focal lengths. In general, the bigger the aperture (lower F-stop number) the less → Continue reading »

Zoo photography is a great way to get pictures of animals that most people really wouldn’t see otherwise. A lot of people think that zoo photography is pretty easy, the animals are right there in front of you and they’re not going anywhere. Contrary to popular belief, there are quite a few challenges to zoo → Continue reading »

I saw this effect in Nature Photography (written by Tim Fitzharris) and had to try it for myself. To get this eerie/surreal effect is actually pretty simple, it’s just multiple exposures. There are two ways that I know of to make a multiple exposure. → Continue reading »

Singh-Ray came out with a great filter called the Vari-ND. This is a variable neutral density filter and works similarly like a circular polarizing filter, you can turn a dial on the filter and it varies the amount of light allowed into your camera. → Continue reading »