"Understanding camera lenses can help add more creative control to digital photography. Choosing the right lens for the task can become a complex trade-off between cost, size, weight, lens speed and image quality. " "This tutorial aims to ...

Possibly the most useful tool available in digital photography is the histogram. It could also well be the least understood. In this article we will look at what a camera histogram tells the photographer and how best to utilize that informatio ...

"Bit depth quantifies how many unique colors are available in an image's color palette in terms of the number of 0's and 1's, or "bits," which are used to specify each color.  This does not mean that the image necessarily uses all ...

"Color management" is a process where the color characteristics for every device in the imaging chain is known precisely and utilized to better predict and control color reproduction. For digital photography, this imaging chain usually starts ...

"The RAW file format is digital photography's equivalent of a negative in film photography: it contains untouched, "raw" pixel information straight from the digital camera's sensor. The RAW file format has yet to undergo demosaicing, and so it ...

"White balance (WB) is the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo. Proper camera white balance has to take into account the "color temperature" o ...

"Knowing how your digital camera meters light is critical for achieving consistent and accurate exposures. Metering is the brains behind how your camera determines the shutter speed and aperture, based on lighting c ...

Before you shell out the money for a new camera, you'll most likely want to learn about what the camera is capable of doing. "Will the image quality be good with this camera?" "Will this camera perform the way I want it to?" "Will I be able t ...

Sharpness describes the clarity of detail in a photo, and can be a valuable creative tool for emphasizing texture.  Proper photographic and post-processing technique can go a long way towards improving sharpness, although sharpnes ...

"The human eye senses this spectrum using a combination of rod and cone cells for vision.  Rod cells are better for low-light vision, but can only sense the intensity of light, whereas while cone cells can also discern color, they fun ...

"The aim of this article is to introduce you to the versatility of your new Paglight whilst exposing the secrets of good lighting in such a way that you can continue to build on your skills and enj ...

The first thing you have to ask yourself before choosing the flash setting for your umbrella is, how big do you want your light source to be? But before we get to that, let's make sure we all know what we mean by "zoom setting." Re ...

The Photoshop curves tool is perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation, yet it may also be one of the most intimidating.  Since photographers effectively paint with light, curves is central to their practice because it affec ...

"To really understand the concept of balancing light, many of you will have to expand your concept of a so-called proper exposure. After all, you are creating a scene that has precisely the tonal range that you want it to. You can use this ab ...

"It's almost a magician's art: giving form to an object that's essentially invisible. Lighting and photographing clear glass objects and giving them real visual appeal is one of the hardest tasks you'll ever face in a studio." "How's i ...