Photography
Christmas is a wonderous time especially when trying to creatively capture some of the magical light moments with your camera. Here’s some ideas to help you obtain fantastic photos: Firstly, you need to mount your camera on a tripod and ensure its stable and secure A standard kit lens (18-55mm) will work with this effect…
Watching fireworks in the night sky is an amazing fascination but for some, capturing fireworks correctly with your camera is much more difficult. Here’s how to obtain fantastic photos of fireworks: As firework displays are shown best at night you should consider taking a small torch along with you to enable you to make adjustments…
A large number of people in every country enjoy looking at birds in flight and a large number try and take photos of them – sadly, often with little success! Whilst this ‘useful tips’ section is not intended to turn you into a master overnight, it will provide you with straight forward setting and composition…
Capturing moving water in different ways can be a real joy as the water droplets display another creative image opportunity when photographed with a slower shutter speed. In this section you will discover how to effectively capture the blurry (milky) water effect much loved by many as ‘something different’. Ideally, you will need to use…
Many people across the world enjoy taking Landscape photos. In fact, a large number take this type of photo without really understanding some of the essential requirements. So here are some useful tips: – The ‘mode’ dial setting for exposure can be set in Aperture priority (Av for Canon & A for most other makes)…
‘Still Life’ is essentially, an item that’s not moving and not alive so can be considered Still Life! Trying to photograph your particular still life in the best possible way requires some essential skills and these are about to be shared with you now, to ensure you obtain the best quality images whether used to…
If you want to capture some portrait images of friends, family or models and have thus far enjoyed limited success, here are some useful tips. Once again, not intended to turn you into a professional overnight, but will provide you with straight forward setting and composition advice. Each camera will have slightly different setting requirements…
What is Bokeh? Bokeh makes photographs visually appealing, and the word comes from Japanese language, which literally translates as “blur”. Bokeh is essentially the quality of the out-of-focus or “blurry” parts of the image rendered by a camera lens – it is NOT the blur itself or the amount of blur in the foreground or…
In order to capture stunning monochrome images of both landscape, portraits and still life it’s essential for the photographer to view the potential scene carefully for the best results take into account the light, shade, texture, tone and contrasts available. When viewing a scene today with a digital camera we are accustomed to seeing things…
For a large number of people on holding their camera for the first time and taking the first few photos, the pleasure in capturing your first images is incredible. Whatever the camera model & make, whichever the subject matter and wherever you live, I have seen the enjoyment every time. Unfortunately, I have also noted…