"Every photographer wants both maximum resolution and maximum depth of field. But unfortunately these two demands can be mutually exclusive. As you stop down the aperture on a lens the light passing through tends to diffract, reducin ...

Focus : "Cameras today offer a wide range of focus options. Manual, semi-manual and an array of automatic methods. Although it is nice to have variety, more complicated options often confuse new photographers, who expect the camera to alwa ...

Lensbaby showcases at PMA 2010 two new additions to the Lensbaby Optic Swap System – the Fisheye Optic and Soft Focus Optic. Each optic is available for use with the Lensbaby Composer® and Muse®*. In addition, the Soft Focus Optic is compati ...

Depth of field (DOF) is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus. This tutorial will teach you about how to use Depth of Field in your own photography. A short depth of field can be very useful when you want to isolate ...

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 great new improvements of Auto-Blend Layers in Photoshop CS4 is that you can now take a range of shots with different points of focus and Photoshop will composite them together with amazingly precise layer masks to give you a singl ...

Night photography has the ability to take a scene and cast it in an unusual light-- much like the golden hour surrounding sunrise and sunset can add an element of mood and uniqueness to a sunlit scene. Just as how sports and landscape photog ...

Our family of optics is growing! With the arrival of our new Soft Focus and Fisheye optics, Lensbaby is moving beyond the realm of selective focus to offer photographers a comprehensive Creative Effects SLR lens system. Unlike Lensbaby’s s ...

In this day and age it’s possible to create quite beautiful photographs without fully understanding focus and depth of field. As long as your auto focus lens purrs when you hit the button and a little sensor lights up on the intended subject, ...

"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 ...

The trick with local contrast enhancement is that it increases "local" contrast in smaller regions, while at the same time preventing an increase in "global" contrast-- thereby protecting large-scale shadow/highlight detail.  It achieves this ...

The Nikon 18-105mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 is Nikon's latest ''kit'' lens, sold with the D90 digital SLR camera. The lens is designed to fit a camera with an APS-C (''subframe'') sensor, so while it will mount on Nikon film or FX digital bodies, it will ...

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 Fastest Lens for Micro 4/3rds With a maximum aperture of F0.95, the Noktor Hyperprime is the fastest lens designed for Micro Four Thirds cameras. At open aperture, the lens renders pictures and video with extreme shallow depth of fi ...

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' ...