This guest post on wedding photography equipment was submitted by F.C. from Camera Tech.
So you’re desperately keen to go into wedding photography — or maybe you’ve made a start. The only problem you’re faced with is the equipment: and there are a lot of choices.
Firstly, the most important thing to realize is that the camera [...]
In a recent post, I referred to studio photography with a white background and bright lights as being ‘high-key’and got quite a bit of flack about it.
While calling this style ‘high-key’ may be a deviation from the original definition, it’s a heck of a lot easier than always calling it ‘photography with a white background and bright lights’. [...]
Occasionally Ricoh has delivered cameras to the market that are innovative, ingenious and unique. Like the Ricoh GR Digital III.
But who ever heard of a camera with a fixed lens and no zoom?
To answer, you have only to look at the major companies with their DSLRs. Fine cameras you say. But what makes [...]
Photo H@Ru
Earlier in the week I had the chance to sit down with a photographer whose specialty is photographing flowers. As I tend to do with pro photographers – picked his brain as we chatted and took as many notes as I could. Here’s what I gleaned from him and his flower photography experience:
By the [...]
Photo michah
I recently took a trip to my cities zoo to do a test on a camera that I was reviewing and thought I’d share a few tips that I put into practice along the way.
Zoos are great locations to practice photography as they present us both with a great variety of subjects (both animals [...]
Photo by Isaac Bauman
When shooting outdoor action shots like mountain biking or skate boarding one great tool to keep in mind as you experiment is your flash.
While an outdoor setting might not conjure images of brightly lit scenes in your mind the flip side of bright sunlight is that you can also end up with [...]
Have you ever had a memory card fail on you? You’ve spent some time photographing an occassion, you’ve done your best and you’re excited about getting the images onto your screen and checking them out. You plug in your memory card and import your photos only to find half of them corrupt! or, even worse [...]
Photo by Maharepa
With Halloween just a couple of weeks away I thought it was time to update our Halloween Photography Tips article with some new information and photos.
Photography Tips to Keep in Mind for Halloween
There are plenty of subjects around to photograph at Halloween ranging from the traditional jack-o-lantern through to people in costume, to [...]
Photo by bikeracer
Capturing movement in images is something that many photographers only think to do when they are photographing sports or other fast moving subjects.
While there is an obvious opportunity in sports photography to emphasize the movement of participants – almost every type of photography can benefit from the emphasis of movement in a shot [...]
I come from an era where, to shoot in low light, you had three options: use a faster lens; a faster film; dose up your chemical brew or stretch the dev time. Times were tough but at least you learnt the hard way.
These days to ‘do it in the dark’ you still have to juggle [...]
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