For beginners, wildlife photography can be one of the toughest fields to master. Along with all the challenges of everyday photography, you also have to work with subjects that have no interest in cooperating.
For an experienced photographer, there are so many things one would love to pass on to beginners to help them get started. [...]
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Keep it simple shutterbug. Travel photography is about capturing a moment, a place or a culture. It is as much about the experiences the photographer has along the way as it is about the image itself. The people you meet and the places you see.
October 3rd, 2008 | Barbara House | 3 comments | Continued
Bad Weather, Good Light - Being Flexible With Your Photography
We’ve all sat, staring out of our window and cursing at the rain poring down or the flat, grey sky that just happened to cloud over on few hours we’ve managed to set aside in our busy schedule to head out and shoot some photos. But all is not lost for the opportunistic and well [...]
October 1st, 2008 | Barbara House | 4 comments | Continued
Photographing People Outdoors
When photographing people you first must remain alert to changes in facial expression. If your subject is directly facing the sun he or she will have an uncomfortable expression. To avoid this, wait until a cloud covers the sun or move the subject into a shaded area.
You should avoid any unwanted clutter in the background. [...]
Zen Photography 2 - Being At One With Your Image
When I was young, my mother was very much into hand built pottery. She became pretty good at it and started attending more and more Arts and Crafts shows. To get into the bigger, well known shows you had to send pictures of your work in advance for the promoters to decide if your work [...]
September 26th, 2008 | Barbara House | 2 comments | Continued
Zen Photography - Being At One With Your Camera
Back in the summer of 1979, I met a man who automatically did everything that was manual with his photography. He set the film speed, shutter speed, and f-stop for every picture he took. While this is not totally unheard of, as far as I could tell he never used a light meter. He was [...]
September 22nd, 2008 | Barbara House | 4 comments | Continued
Five Tips For Better Beach Photography
All photographers love to capture the places that are dear to their hearts - and who doesn’t love a day at the beach. Nature photographers, wedding photographers and old-fashioned happy snappers; we can all find inspiration in beach photography.
September 19th, 2008 | Barbara House | 4 comments | Continued
Help! My Meter is a Moron! - Creative Controls For DOF
If we said that Depth of Field was the range of focus found in any given picture, we would be partially right. Just as a camera is the box that captures light; it is also much more than that. A camera is made up of many parts. Depth of Field also has many [...]
September 17th, 2008 | Barbara House | 4 comments | Continued
Five Tips For Better Nature Photos - The Low Tech Way
Digital cameras offer so many functions and features, photography can seem way too complex for the beginner. In frustration many new photographers simply switch their digital camera to auto, and never learn how to use it properly.
September 15th, 2008 | Barbara House | 2 comments | Continued
