Here’s a great video from YouTube about how TV lenses are made. The same basic principles apply to Digital and Film SLR cameras, so this is a really interesting watch; from Discovery Channel, no less…
Read More »How Your Lens Was Made… A Video
The earlier two tips were about attributes of light that may well be avoided. Here is one aspect of light that you would do well… Read More »Tiny Tips 4 – Study Highlights!
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.
Digital photography allows you to apply much of what these photographic filters can do even after the image is captured, but sometimes using filters while taking your photographs makes a massive difference, especially when you use filters that dramatically change how the image is captured – like an ND filter or starburst filter. That’s when they become fun to use.
Read More »Understanding Photographic Filters for Your Lens
There are party pictures; and there are party pictures. This is why you need to know how to make yours stand out from the crowd. This series… Read More »How to Take Better Party Pictures!
Since the advent of digital photography, photographers have wanted more detail, and to many this translates to ‘more megapixels’. But does more pixels being packed into sensors that are not getting larger mean more quality? In fact, today, there is a rush for up to 100 megapixels to be packed on to tiny cellphone cameras. So what does this really mean? Do more megapixels actually mean better quality images? Let’s go over some facts and see whether this is the case, or not.
Read More »Do You Need More Megapixels? Megapixel Myth 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… Read More »It’s the Photographer, Not the Equipment
