" One of the first hurdles in learning off-camera flash photography in the manual mode is knowing where to set your flash for that first test exposure. For beginners, it can almost seem arbitrary or random. More experienced photographe ...

Welcome to the prerelease of Adobe® Configurator. Configurator is an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Adobe Photoshop® CS4. Specifically, Configurator makes it easy to drag and drop tools, men ...

An important concept to understand when dealing with studio lighting for portrait photography is contrast. Contrast is the difference in the amount of light that falls on the dark areas of a scene and the amount of light that falls on the hig ...

When it comes to photography - practice the hard stuff. Get your camera off "P" for Professional!! Try and practice some lighting techniques you have never tried before. Learn and practice different ways of photographing the bride and groom. ...

click continue for set-up and additional photos. We moved the flash from frontal position to a position of 45 degrees from the model, direct light. thanks to Olivier

When you wish to shoot with maximum depth of field, you need to focus on a point known as the Hyperfocal Distance. When the camera is focused at this point, everything in the picture should be sharp from half way between it and the camera, ...

When I think of the perfect sunset photo, my mind immediately fills with lots of warm reds, oranges and yellows as the sun gently sets across the water or beyond the hills. Sunsets are one of the most commonly photographed aspects of nature, ...

The purpose of HDR photography is to create an image of a scene that has a greater range of light values than can be normally be captured by a single film or digital image.  Depending on how it is used, HDR imaging software can allow the phot ...

"Adobe Photoshop Lightroom answers the digital photographer's call for a workflow application that allows photographers to quickly work with raw format images. With Lightroom you can manage all of your photographs; showcase them in print, dyn ...

EV, short for Exposure Value, can be defined as the various combinations of camera shutter speed and relative aperture that give the same exposure. For example, 1/30th at f/8.0 is the same EV as 1/60th at f/5.6, and so on. So, if we have a sc ...

"The difficulty of capturing infrared images with film has long limited the medium to the domain of a select few artistic, scientific or technical photographers. Now, using B+W Infrared Filters and the right digital SLR, anyone can create inf ...

In some ways "nocturnal" photography is no different from most genres, and in other ways, there's a world of difference. This article will explore the similarities and differences, and give tips to overcome some of the specific issues that ar ...

"When shooting portraits outdoors, it is often necessary to control or modify the natural light in order to achieve the most flattering results. In a high contrast, outdoor lighting situation, many photographers resort to using fill flash to ...

Tech features on the Sony G3 include Face Detection linked to both the autoexposure and autofocus systems, and capable of differentiating between (and prioritizing towards) the faces of children and adults. There's also an Intelligent Scene R ...

Camera flashes produce intrusive bursts of light that disturb or dazzle. We present a prototype camera and flash that uses infra-red and ultra-violet light mostly outside the visible range to capture pictures in low-light conditions. This “da ...