Photography for the Serious Amateur
Photography for the Serious Amateur
There’s a technical aspect to using a polarizing filer, but there’s a visual aspect that you really have to experience if you are a photographer. Have you experienced a Polarizing filter yet? If you have not, I seriously recommend trying…
Study the play of light on your subject! Remember that light travels in straight lines and casts shadows: the stronger the light, the darker the shadows. A good photograph depends on an aesthetic balance of your highlights and shadows! Happy…
Backlighting is a technique where the light source is placed behind the subject. It can bring out an ethereal glow in translucent subjects, making ordinary subjects like flowers, fruits, and even insects look extraordinary. This is a particularly effective technique…
Increasing Depth Of Field (DOF) beyond a certain point can actually make your photographs slightly blurry. Isn’t that strange? This is because of diffraction. If you want to get as much of a scene in sharp focus, you often must…
I’ve wondered about it for a long time… I’ve marveled, and been Inspired by his apparent ability to do more than 3 tasks at a time, but I guess this day finally had to come. Baltimore Sun Photographer David Hobby…
You’re standing in a studio and look into the flash just as it is triggered. You’re blinded by the light… At that moment you wonder if it was so harsh for you, isn’t studio flash photography bad for newborn babies…
Lens flare, in photography, is a phenomenon where a haze, lines, or circles appear in your images surrounding a light source. Lens flare is caused by light rays falling on, and interacting with the glass elements of your camera lens.…
by birdyboo Remember to be aware of and study the main source of light. The main source of light may be a direct source of light, sunlight deflecting from a wall, or sunlight diffused by clouds. If the key light…
Remember that when light hits the subject ‘Head-on’, more often than not, the lighting is flat and uninteresting. You may want to place the subject so the light falls on it from one side. This may cause shadows on the…
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 to utilise constructively. While a light source from behind the camera (frontal lighting) helps you…
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.…
Light is what photography is all about. There are sources of light, and there are subjects that receive and reflect light. Remember that when light strikes a surface it gets reflected ; diffused; refracted or absorbed.
