What goes through your mind in the moments as you raise your digital camera up to take a shot and before you press the shutter? If you’re like many digital photographers you’re not thinking about too much – you just want to capture the moment and then move on.
However getting in the habit of asking [...]
The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who will soon be teaching a class in portrait photography in Melbourne Australia, and is developing his blog as a resource for the passionate photographer.
Welcome to the seventh lesson in Photography 101 – A Basic Course on the Camera. In this series, we cover all the [...]
Bryan Peterson has written a book titled Understanding Exposure which is a highly recommended read if you’re wanting to venture out of the Auto mode on your digital camera and experiment with it’s manual settings.
In it Bryan illustrates the three main elements that need to be considered when playing around with exposure by calling them [...]
The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who is part of the Fine Art Photoblog, and is developing his blog as a resource for the passionate photographer.
Welcome to the fifth lesson in Photography 101 – A Basic Course on the Camera. In this series, we cover all the basics of camera design and [...]
A few years ago while on a tour in Morocco with a group of others I sat next to a fellow traveler on a tour bus. He was quickly scrolling through the shots he’d taken on his camera – deleting picture after picture.
I asked him what he was doing and he told me that he [...]
In this interview photographer Chase Jarvis is interviewed and gives a number of useful photography tips.
Chase Jarvis’ 5 Tips for Exceptional Photographs from SilberStudios.Tv on Vimeo.
1. Look at the scene without the camera – you’ll see more. Look for points of interest and visualize the shot.
2. Fantasize about the shot – what could I [...]
Backgrounds present both opportunities and challenges to photographers. On the one hand they can put a subjects in context and make it stand out in a way that highlights it wonderfully – but on the other hand backgrounds can overwhelm subjects and distract from them.
Some of the common problems that photographers have with backgrounds include:
Distracting [...]
Martin Gommel, in a guest post at Digital Photography School, listed “Search for a Mentor” as #92 in his post 100 Things I’ve Learned About Photography. This post by Peter Carey expands on that idea with 6 steps to help you in your search.
Image by Shenghung Lin
Mentoring is a time honored method for passing [...]
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In this post we want to give you 12 tips for taking great group photos.
One of the most common types of digital photographs is the ‘group photo‘.
They happen everywhere from weddings, to camps, to parties, to sporting teams, to school etc.
There must be thousands of group photos taken each day [...]
It seems computers can do most anything with an image now a days. So why bother with all those cumbersome filters? The answer is that most of them are still superior to the techniques used with a computer. Plus, if the image is more accurate coming out of the camera, less time [...]
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