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 are quiet and hiding, birds don’t show up or they just won’t do what you’re hoping they would have. 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 to explore the concepts of image composition. 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 my point is that digital photography has allowed photographers to endlessly take pictures and experiment with different angles and settings until the shooter is happy. However, with the ability to take countless shots also means you will need a good organization system to keep track of all the pictures you take. 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 better ability to control the aperture. All excited I loaded Velvia into the camera and went off for the day taking pictures. When I got the film developed I was quite disappointed in my pictures 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 DOF. Likewise, the larger the focal length on a lens the less DOF. If you’re fairly new to ideas about DOF, check out the website and play around to get a sense of how photographs can change depending on aperture and lens focal length.
Better yet, grab your camera and a lens or two and try it out for yourself.
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 photography. 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 »
I was thinking about writing a post on the Zone system, however just before I had the chance I listened to Jeff Curto’s Camera Position Podcast, who dedicated an entire episode to explaining the basics of the zone system and how to use it. Continue reading »
Light is the basis of good photos, controlling it will definitely improve your pictures. Continue reading »
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