Here we get into a technique which is easy to apply and creates some fantastic results.
Slowing down the shutter speed shows the movement in a subject - here is a step-by-step guide…
When you sell your property, you want to generate as much interest as possible, with the potential for a bidding war to push the price up and up!
What will attract more possible buyers to your property, once they know the property’s specifications? The photos! (more…)
Filters enable a wide variety of creative and functional results to be achieved. Granted, many digital cameras have white balance compensation functions, and photo editing software creates effects that manual filters are designed for. In most cases, SLR cameras will still need to use filters in order to achieve the same results.
Here are some of the more standard filters, which can be used to correct color and exposure imbalances.
Photographing people can be a tricky business. Portrait photographs are generally required for special occasions, and everyone wants to look their best.
Here are a few basic tips to make portrait photography more successful.
This may seem like a slightly odd topic, but if you pick up that camera and really begin using it, you’ll find yourself with hundreds of files. Not to mention hundreds of Megabites, and in my case, Gigabites!
Here I’ll give you some tips I’ve found to be extremely useful in managing an ever-increasing mass of photo files, and some of the ways you can externally store your photos.
As you begin to get more and more interested in photography, a sturdy tripod is a must.
The world opens to new possibilities, and you can then achieve some fantastic effects and create very emotive, moody images.
Here are some intermediate concepts and techniques.
Photography isn’t all technique and teaching the eye what to look for, it can also be about breaking the rules and having some fun.
There are so many different things you can do with a camera – it’s open to your imagination.
Here are a few of my favourites – I hope you have fun with them too.
You’re probably wondering how I can write an entire post just on flash. Well, there’s actually more to flash photography that many people realise.
Flash is generally over-used, and can ruin a photo more often than it saves the image.
On compact digital cameras, there is often no choice as to when the flash can be used, but if you do have this functionality, I encourage you to use it.
Digital photography has been alive since the mid-1970s, with the first megapixel sensor emerging in 1986, developed by Kodak. At a consumer level, 1994 saw the emergence of the first digital camera that sent images onto a computer via a serial cable. The rest, as they say, is history.
Not surprisingly, the film versus digital debate emerged not long after this, and is still being argued today – quite passionately in some circles.
