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More Composition Tips

Andre Gunther Photography has some composition tips up here. A lot of the comments after the article on that page are great, with lots of people with disparate opinions sounding off. Remember, these are just things to consider when taking photos and not rules engraved in ancient stone.


How Lenses are Made

Interested in how camera lenses are made? If you can stand the awkward soundtrack, there’s a great 9 minute Discovery channel feature on Youtube:


Rules, Basic Flash, and Light Tents

* Pop Photo has a list of twelve ‘essential’ rules of photography to follow. Good tips - but as with all ‘rules’, take with a grain of salt. (http://www.popphoto.com/howto/1175/twelve-essential-photographic-rules.html)
* Photojournalist Matt Hancock demystifies basic flash exposure. (http://markhancock.blogspot.com/2005/11/understand-basic-flash-exposure.html)
* Do you want to try and take cool looking studio product shots? Putting together a cheap light tent […]


Tips for Portrait Photography

Portrait photography is extremely difficult. It’s one thing to take quick unplanned photos on the street or casual family snapshots, but planned portraiture is a completely different adventure. If you’re finding yourself unhappy with your results, consider some of the below:

Know Your Camera
The last thing you want to do on a planned shoot is fumble […]


Quick Tip: Use a Tripod

Camera shake is the sworn enemy of photography (unless you’re going for that kind of thing). In a perfect world our arms would be rigid and stiff like trees when we hold our camera, but that’s not the case. One of the best things you can do to improve your photos is to get a […]


Understanding the Histogram for Photography

The histogram for photography is often viewed with great confusion, but is actually quite a simple and useful feature.
A histogram is basically a graph that represents the spread of the pixels in a digital photograph. On the leftmost side we have the “dark” pixel count of our image and on the right side […]


Quick Tip: Lens Hoods

Lens hoods have many uses. The most common use is to prevent lens flare and glare in your images. They also allow your photos to have higher contrast and more saturated colors. Both of these uses are possible because of the way a lens hood works. Basically the functional property of a lens hood is […]


Quick Tip: Mirror Lock-up

Your SLR camera by definition uses a series of mirrors to allow you to see exactly what your lens sees. When it is time to expose your digital sensor or film (when you click the shutter), the mirror that allows you to view the action through the viewfinder flips up. During this time, the image […]


Quick Tip: Exposure Compensation

In every photo you take, your camera’s metering system will do its best to give you an estimate of what settings (Shutter speed, aperture, and ISO if your camera supports Auto ISO) would properly expose the scene. Unfortunately, your built-in camera meter isn’t perfect. In scenes where luminance is unusual, such as when taking photos […]


Using a Polarizer Filter

The polarizing filter is used to remove reflected light from your photos. This occurs through a property of physics that is beyond the scope of this article, and will probably bore you to tears.

The two most popular uses of polarizing filters are to remove reflected light and to create richly saturated skies in your photographs. […]


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