Photography for the Serious Amateur
Photography for the Serious Amateur
Why Filters are Fun Using filters have always been a fun part of my photography. They allow you to take a photograph of a normal scene, and make it look extraordinary. There are various kinds of filters; coloured filters and special effects filters.…
Tiny tips are where you get a small dose of photography theory and suggestions. There will be more added regularly, so please do come back! Tiny Tips 1: Drawing with Light Tiny Tips 2: Light Study Tiny Tips 3: Study…
In this Photo Project, we are going to explore how you can develop “Photo Stories”, or “Photo Essays”. Being able to tell a visual story without too many words is an important part of your capacity as a visual storyteller,…
Have you ever noticed the way in which you seem to be able to focus on just one object of a scene (say a spoon on a table or a shop’s signboard on a street) when in fact your eyes…
Among the greatest and most popular image editing software tools ever made, Adobe Photoshop has moved from being a name, to being a verb. “That’s Photoshopped” is a phrase that we’ve all heard, that refers to an image that is…
Capturing the energy and memorable moments at a party via photographs can be challenging, but that can be its own reward. It’s a challenge to stay in the moment and enjoy the party while also capturing photos in a memorable…
Since the advent of digital photography, photographers have wanted more detail, and to many, this translates to ‘more megapixels’. But do more pixels being packed into sensors (that are not getting larger) mean more quality? In fact, today, there is…
Three years in the Advertising business, and 16 in photography, have convinced me that ideas are really powerful and that a photograph that has a strong idea is the most powerful tool to convey a message. A strong idea is…
Camera Equipment. The Never-ending Quest! For many years now, I’ve been a person who’s been caught up in the equipment game… Partly because my father – a frequent traveler to European countries – is an equipment enthusiast. For as long…
Professional photographers need RAW files all the time. RAW files can be a game changer. These unprocessed, uncompressed image files give photographers unparalleled levels of control over the final image’s look and detail. In this article, you’ll find out about…
Where have all the dark rooms gone? Gone to graveyards, every one… Yes, that’s what is happening today… every one of the professional film developing and printing studios, especially the manual ones, have closed down… replaced by computerised labs that…
Creating panoramic images is fun; especially when you can use a digital camera. The time-consuming and painstaking process of developing, scanning, color matching and only then stitching the images together. With digital images, you can take the photographs, stitch them…