The Rule of Thirds : "The Rule of Thirds gets trotted out more often than any other in all types of photography and is one of the first rules of composition taught to most photography students. While sometimes it can feel a little cliche it c ...

Sunsets and sunrises are an inspirational subject for any photographer. In fact, a good sunset photo is often the reason many people become interested in nature photography. You don't need to have a great camer ...

Digital cameras and zoom lenses go hand in hand. When shopping for your new camera, chances are one of the first features the salesman mentioned was the power of the zoom lens. You know how it goes: "This ...

Open your photo in Photoshop and press CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-B to enter the Black and White conversion window. You can also select Image from the main menu and go into Adjustments. Once the window opens, you are given 6 colors that will affect how y ...

It could successfully be argued that the whole point of owning a Leica is that you are then able to use the (deservedly) legendary Leica M lenses. The cameras themselves are, like any other camera, just boxes. Exquisitely engineered, wonderfu ...

PART 1: The Basics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Definitions 1.21 Magnification 1.22 Macrophotography 1.23 Close-up Photography 1.23 Photomicrography 1.24 Photomacrography 1.25 Supermacro Photography PART 2A: Supermacro Tools Intro 2.1 ...

One of the most important things your photo should have is an ability to hold your viewers attention. There are a lot of techniques that can be used to help you compose your shot so that people will spend more than a second looking at it. Bes ...

Outdoor portraits can offer a sense a drama or romance that can be hard to achieve in a studio setting. The early morning or evening sky can serve as a stunning backdrop for a portrait. The trick is in lighting your subject properly. T ...

A particular technique that I always love is dragging the shutter to go for a really long exposure and I’m always very amazed by the results. That was the first technique I learnt actually. Though I must say I didn’t really learn much from jo ...

The Rules of Composition in Photography

The Canon Powershot SX10 is an advanced, super zoom camera. It has a wide angle, 20x optical zoom lens and an impressive set of controls, including manual exposure and focusing. It also has a custom mode, flip out and twist LCD screen, hot sh ...

Black and white photography is a rewarding and challenging field of artistic photography. Even people who don't care about photography can find themselves drawn to a great black and white image. As a photograph ...

Ideally, 14-bit RAW files contain 4 times more information than 12-bit RAW files in the shadows. Realistically the gain may be limited somewhat by noise, but the noise levels also improved, leaving us with more bits to use. This much dynamic ...

When you use your camera to automatically chose aperture and shutter speed, what your camera is actually doing is using the built in light meter and measuring how much light is being reflected to the camera. But that doesn't mean that' ...

While we look at the Mona Lisa today and see it’s composition as fairly standard and simple - for it’s time the composition of the Mona Lisa was ground breaking and has set new trends in painting which have been followed for centuries since. ...