Photography Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

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 […]

Panning a camera is like serving a tennis ball. It’s all about the follow through. I’ve played a lot of tennis in my day and I can tell you that the follow through is where it’s at. Have you ever seen one of those photos that looks like something is moving fast in it? Or […]

If I had to guess, I’d say that one of the most fun things about photography is browsing through all of the gadgets that are available for us to use. Whether this browsing be online or in a physical store, it’s all the same. When someone is into photography and has chosen to make it […]

Part of becoming a proficient photographer is learning when to use certain features that your camera and lens offer. I can remember back to one of the best tricks I ever learned. It was a long time ago when someone told me that I could lock an auto focus position by pointing at an object […]