Photography

White balance is something that you’re probably not going to have to touch too often. Canon Rebel DSLR cameras are set to auto white balance (AWB) out of the box and for most of your photography, this setting is all you’ll need. Your camera will detect which temperature the light is in which you’re shooting […]

How to set up and operate auto focus on today’s DSLR cameras remains a mystery for many budding photographers around the world. If you’ve ever struggled with all the various settings and little white and green boxes these camera’s have to offer, let me tell you that you’re not alone. I swear, I was just […]

Studio portrait photography is much different than the type of photography most amateur photographers engage in. It requires a certain skill set, some equipment and, of course, a studio. Or a room that’s equipped for this type of photography. Although many beginning photographers enjoy learning about nature and landscape shooting, studio and portrait work can […]

Have you ever heard of a “fast” lens? I have. I hear it all the time, usually when I’m reading reviews for lenses online. I also read about these types of lenses in discussion forums a lot. They’re all over the place. The problem with photography lingo like this is that no one ever actually […]

I’ve got camera lenses on the mind. I’m on the hunt for a new lens and I’ve decided it’s going to be a prime lens. I’ve had a few of these in the past, but I’ve sold them all off. Currently, all I have are zoom lenses. I go back and forth between which is […]

I’d like to continue on with the theme of “depth of field” for just a little while longer. If you haven’t seen my previous post on the topic, you can click through to read up on things here: The Basics of Depth of Field For Photography I didn’t go nuts in that post and try […]

It seems like I’ve been hearing about depth of field forever. Even before I was into photography, I heard about depth of field. Depth of field this and depth of field that. It was and is all over the place. And do you want to know the truth about it? I don’t think I ever […]

This is a follow up post from yesterday’s post. After I wrote that post, I began thinking about protecting camera lenses and about lens hoods in general. As I mentioned in my previous post, the consensus is to use a lens hood to help avoid bumping the actual camera lens into things when you’re in […]

The truth of the matter is that camera lenses are expensive. Not all of them are really expensive, but some of them are. And even for the ones that aren’t, it’s not like any of us want to go out and purchase another one because something terrible happened to the one we have. In today’s […]

Have you ever heard of the blue hour? If you’ve been involved with photography for a while, you’ve most likely come across the term, the golden hour. That’s a period of time, either in the morning or the evening, when the sun sits low on the horizon. The sky gets orange or red and you’ll […]