PHOTOGRAPHY

Why use Large Format Photography ?

What is a Large format camera ? That’s grand-dad’s bellows box-like camera, where you had to disappear under a dark cloth. The principle remains the [...]

Water Droplet and Splash Photography Tips

10 Tips to Help You Become a Better Photographer

A list of tips in order to improve your photography. “1. Learn Where You Need To Improve Before getting better at anything, you need to [...]

Computer tethered photo capture

Food Photography

Every branch of photography has its challenge. Portrait photographers have to capture the subject’s entire personality and character in a single shot. Architectural photographers have [...]

DIY DSLR Ring-Flash Videos

Lightpainting Light Sabers

My latest enthusiasm in photography has been nightwork and lightpainting. A lot of my work is done with a simple pen torch, a flashlight and [...]

PhotographyBB Magazine Issue 14

PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the 14th edition of the PhotographyBB Magazine Online. The PhotographyBB Magazine Online, now into its second year of publication [...]

A video discussing the quality of light in photography, using a one light source lighting set-up.

How to Use The Histogram in Digital Photography

How To Get Fast Action Shots Indoors In Low Light

A video tutorial explaining some of the key elements to indoor and low light photography, and ways you can get sharper photos and avoid the [...]

How to Choose Studio Lighting

However amazing the vision of a photographer may be, however sharp their lens and regardless of the number of pixels on their camera’s sensor, the [...]

Negative Space in Photography

What is negative space? When composing a piece of artwork, we generally work with three elements: the frame, the positive space, and the negative space [...]

Use of Light in Photography

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 [...]

Why More Megapixels in Photography Is Not Always Better

Generally, the more pixels packed onto a sensor, the higher the resolution of the images it can produce. (Image resolution is somewhat confusingly also measured [...]

How to get nice soft light for portraits using diffusion and reflection.

The Truth about Wedding Photography

This page is going to be dedicated to dispelling many of the myths and misconceptions regarding wedding photographers. I will be updating this as necessary, [...]

Introduction to Macro Photography

To put it simply, macro photography is close-up photography. There are various schools of though on when a photo becomes a macro (when it’s close [...]

Photography tutorial – depth of field

There is so much talk on some forums about the ’softness’ of shoot-thru umbrellas and how much it works to provide a soft light. And [...]

Intro to color management

Pricing your photography

How do I figure out what to charge for my photography? There are several things to take into consideration. However, the first thing is that [...]

Photographing cars with one speedlight flash and softbox

High Dynamic Range ( HDR ) Photography Techniques

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 [...]

Concert Photography tips

First, a word of caution: while nobody is likely to mind you taking a few snaps of a local band playing a Friday night down [...]

Avoiding cliches in landscape photography

I love landscape photography. It is an amazing feeling to capture the majesty and splendor of the world around us in a photograph. Of course, [...]

Prime Lenses versus Zoom Lenses

A contest which seems to be almost eternal is the photographers war on zoom vs. prime lenses. A few commonly asked questions are which is [...]

How to become a successful wedding photographer

Once in while we receive e-mails from aspiring or beginner wedding photographers asking us for advise on how to become successful in the wedding field. [...]