Category: Cameras & Equipment

When people talk about digital camera settings, there are three main ones that pop up: shutter speed, aperture and ISO. They all relate to light and the way your camera captures it: Shutter speed controls the length of time your camera lets in the light, aperture determines the size of the opening in your lens that light travels through and ISO adjusts the sensitivity of the image sensor.

Knowing how to manipulate these options opens up a well of possibilities for a photographer, and today I’m going to break down the basics of ISO for you.

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As an amateur photographer, you can go a long, long time without knowing what white balance is or why knowing how to adjust it even matters. I had my first DSLR (my current DSLR is a Canon EOS 450D) for five years before white balance entered my photography glossary, and it took another few months until it felt necessary—or at least convenient—to learn the ins and out of it.

The thing is, if you have a halfway decent camera, it comes equipped with an automatic white balance (AWB) setting, and that generally does the trick unless your lighting is particularly intense. Even then, you may think the weird, off-balance colors add to the mood of the picture. Hey, sometimes they do! It’s not something that jumps to the eye as “wrong,” the way exposure, depth of field and grain do when they don’t come out right.

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There are many challenges to successful wedding photography, and it can be a hectic day, even for skilled photographers.It includes the photography of activities involving the wedding and photographs of the family members, friends and couple before the marriage, as well as coverage of the wedding day and post wedding. It’s a viable endeavor that supports the efforts of many independent photographers or photographers working with studios.

Successful wedding photography is all about rebuilding the moment by telling the story through a sequence of photographs. The best place is to start with the wedding day’s preparations. It’s advisable to turn up at the bride’s house before the actual wedding, allowing enough time to evaluate how she is getting on with her preparations.

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French photographer Marc Riboud said, “Taking pictures is savouring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” Although astounding, the human ability to capture and store moments in image rich memory is limited.

Visual encoding start with perception follows through to the moment when it is committed to memory and then reaches the period after in which the memory is retained. The human ability to capture and memorize is susceptible to a range of interferences. Even though the eye is very much like a camera, memory is not at all like a photograph and is subject to losing detail in the long-term.

… Continue reading Film vs. Digital in Large-format Photography: Which Is Better?

A full-frame DSLR is perhaps the most desired bit of kit any photographer could ever dream of having. This is the 5D Mark III or the D700, each an awesome camera that pretty much deliver the goods every time.

• But is the full frame better than the crop?

… Continue reading Let’s Get Ready to Rumble: APS-C vs Full Frame