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Tips for taking photos with a point and shoot compact camera.

* “Your camera is light and compact enough that you have it with you at all times. * You have about as good a lens [...]

Bernie's Better Beginner's Guide to Photography.

“This is the guide I wish someone had written for me when I started 3 months ago. It’s much shorter than photography books that cover [...]

How to take sharper photos.

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 [...]

4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography.

The Rule of Thirds : “The Rule of Thirds gets trotted out more often than any other in all types of photography and is one [...]

Camera metering modes.

“The camera metering system reacts to the amount of light reflected from the scene in the viewfinder and computes the camera settings needed to make [...]

Angle of light reflection = Angle of Incidence.

“The physical law of light states that “the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence“. The angle of incidence is the angle [...]

Lens Diffraction : does stopping down a lens make it sharper or not ?

“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 [...]

How to photograph light trails.

“Light Trails continue to be popular subject matter for many photographers and they can actually be a great training ground for those wanting to get [...]

Understanding the RAW file format – Why should you use RAW ?

“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 [...]

Portraits by window light.

“Learn how light works to model a 3D face in 2D using window light before spending a lot of money on lighting gear. It costs [...]

Understanding Camera Lenses.

“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 [...]

Balancing Flash and Ambient Light Indoor Photography.

“Typical indoor ambient light, for instance, might be about 1/60th at 4/f at ISO 400. So If I shoot you in that light, available only, [...]

Five Flash techniques.

“Bounce is a great alternative to direct flash, especially for people pictures made under low ceilings or near white walls. As its name implies, you [...]

Controlling Daylight at Strobist.

“I shot in the middle of the afternoon to use this portrait as an example of how to light an outdoor portrait with a couple [...]

More diffusion results in less contrast.

“The concept of diffusing light to control image contrast is the focus of this lesson. This is where the birth of the soft box came [...]

Better flash lighting through intelligent design and utilization.

” Single Flash Limitations : A single direct hot shoe flash regardless of where it is positioned will create sharply defined dark shadows because the [...]

Light position and angle.

“We live in a world of off-axis light. The sun does not stay right behind us. Our lighting fixtures at home illuminate us from above [...]

Understanding Histograms : Tones – Contrast – Luminance – Color

“Understanding image histograms is probably the single most important concept to become familiar with when working with pictures from a digital camera. A histogram can [...]

Photographing glass.Tutorials about glass photography.

“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 [...]

One Softbox in studio lighting set-up + video.

hit continue for video fragments and result image.

Transmission versus Reflection with photo umbrella's.

In this lesson, we will look at how the efficiency of a light reflector works. To illustrate this, we will employ the line up of [...]

Lighting diagrams from studio shots I.

Here are a few lighting diagrams from studio photos : Monoblock bounced in silver umbrella, single light source, no reflectors.High on lightstand, close to model

The Right Lights. Photo gear in studio and on location.

“Few decisions can push your photography to the next level like investing in serious, off-camera lighting. But what type of light? Your choices include exotics [...]

Camera metering and exposure.

“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 [...]

Techniques for softer fill flash and softboxes on hot-shoe flashes.

“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 [...]

Good Lighting is an art article.

“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 [...]

Using Through The Lens TTL metering.

I’ve done comparison testing with all 18 of the possible ambient / fill metering combinations on my Canon 20D and having been shooting seriously since [...]

Lighting Ratios and Incident Metering.

“Light ratios are confusing because there is more than one way to describe the difference in intensity between lights and because incident readings used to [...]

Lighting set-ups for studio portraits with flash.

“We discuss three lighting options with our portrait studio continuous lighting kit. The kit consists of 3 lights including the “key”, “fill” and “back” or [...]

Shooting Food Shots at Home. Food Photography

“Have you ever sat down to a plate of food and thought, “This would make a great photograph”? When the food, setting and lighting all [...]

Photos with the speedlites and the softbox : click continue for more photos and flash set-up images. Flash is set on ETTL , compensated between [...]

Beauty dish sample photo and video fragments.

Shot with a beauty dish lately, here’s a sample photo : click continue for video fragments of beauty dish and softbox shoot.

Testing the Radiopopper at FlashFlavor.

“I used 3 flash unites in 2 different flash groups, Group A + Group B. (Remember, this is TTL folks). Group A 1:1 and Group [...]

Bokeh in pictures at Luminous Landscape.

“One of the curious aspects of the phenomenon for me was that some people then, and some even now, respond to the idea scornfully or [...]

Hyperfocal distances tables for Canon and Nikon cameras.

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 [...]

Shooting and lighting for food with Scott Kelby.

“Using pretty much the same lighting set-up; natural window light, along with a Westcott Daylight Fluorescent Spiderlite with a 24×32 softbox as a fill light, [...]

Balancing the sun with flash.Crosslighting Photography.

“Warm up your eye and compositional brain using the sunlight properly, then convert to using your strobes to make a composition that you need for [...]

The business of wedding photography at Photo.net.

“The Business of Wedding Photography is an extensive subject, best answered by a team of professional wedding photographers, who also happen to be star photo.net [...]

Balancing light : Twilight – ambient light and flash.

“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 [...]

Creating a custom living room portrait – portrait photography on location.

“In portrait photography, it helps to have a sense of imagination, vision, composition, and at times, a sense of humor. Interaction with your subjects is [...]

AF-H: A New Focusing Mode for Hyperfocal Distance.

In manual focus mode, one of the things you can do is set the lens to the hyperfocal distance, which will depend on the actual [...]

Photographing outdoors : beach portraits. Modifying sunlight.

While shooting portraits at the beach can be great fun, harsh lighting from the direct sunlight can result in blown-out highlights, distracting shadows, or squinting [...]

Camera Panning – Photographing moving subjects.

Camera panning is a photography technique used to follow a moving subject when taking a photo. This creates a blurred background but keeps the subject [...]

Setting Up a Pocket Wizard System video tutorial

Choosing a lens for portrait photos video tutorial

Choosing a lens for portrait photos video tutorial.

Light Metering in photography – how it works

Metering systems are calibrated to a certain light value in order to gurantee constant exposure settings: 18% gray is commonly accepted because a typical scene [...]

Taking photos in the cave at FlashFlavor.

Taking photos in the cave at FlashFlavor

Outdoor Portraits Lighting and Flash.

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 [...]

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