When you try to take portraits of your pets, do you end up with nothing but blurry blobs, down in the corner? Was your dog or cat even looking at the camera? Were they looking attentive and happy? Did your cat make sure everyone was bleeding before the end of your last [...]
October 8th, 2008 | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "basics to digital photography"
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 | 4 comments | Continued
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 | 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 | 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 | 4 comments | Continued
Here’s One Of The Easiest Ways To Totally RUIN A Good Photograph
Ok, we haunt the camera shops, try out and buy all the latest gadgetry, read all the photo magazines and books. Finally, we load some film into our camera, (or insert a new memory stick) find a suitable subject and start firing away!
September 1st, 2008 | 0 comments | Continued
Interior Photography
Interior photography is very demanding and the photographer must be sensitive to all the elements that will appear in the final print. Most rooms consist of small objects that look good in the room, but in a print, these objects may cluster the image.
Photographing interiors involves working within a confined space, so the first thing [...]
Better Photo Tips - Lines In Your Photos
Place a pencil tip to the paper and lift it up. What do you have? You have a dot, a circle, or a starting point. Now place that pencil down and move an inch in any direction. What have you created? You have created a line.
You have moved beyond the starting point, and created the [...]
Black and White Photography
With today’s digital technology, transforming colour images into black and white photographic prints is pretty straightforward but don’t throw away your rolls of black and white film.
Black and white photography is still regarded as a favourite with many photographers - dull landscape scenes become more dramatic with black and white photography.
Most subjects that are shot [...]
