Here’s a question for you. What mode should you put your camera in if you’re taking photos of groups of people? The goal is to keep everyone in focus because, well, that’s the whole point of taking the photo in the first place; to capture the people. We so often prioritize the bokeh in our […]
Photography Tips, Tutorials & Techniques
The photography section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of photography and photographic manipulation. Discussion includes camera fundamentals, composition, lighting, macro and close-up images, lenses and gear, low light and more. Additional topics include traveling as a photographer, developing the "eye" and special effects.
Why It’s Important to Reset Your Camera Settings After a Shoot
If you recently engaged in a photo shoot where you changed many of your camera’s settings, it’s important that you change those settings back to their original values immediately after you finish the shoot. Think about it. Let’s say you head out to do some very creative night photography and move tons of switches and […]
How to Get Cool Effects with Long Exposure Photography
What the heck is long exposure photography? I’ve heard this phrase forever now and I think it’s about time we discussed it. For starters, long exposure photography can be defined like this: it’s when you set your camera so the shutter stays open for a longer time than it normally would, resulting in more light […]
How to Get the Sharpest Shots with Long Exposure Photography
I’ve done tons of long exposure photography during my career and I oftentimes get asked how my photos come out so sharp. With long exposures, obviously some elements of the scene will be changing and show movement, but for anything that’s stationary, it’s important for those objects to be as sharp as possible. Those are […]
How Can I Take Super Sharp Landscape Photos?
Did you know that if you focus on something in your landscape scene that’s too close to your camera, you may not be able to keep the mountains that are far away from you sharp and clear? That’s right. This subject has to do with what’s referred to as hyperfocus and it’s sort of a […]
What’s the Best Aperture Setting to Use For Landscape Photography?
I get asked which aperture setting is the best for landscape photographs a lot and the answer is simple. It’s probably around f/8, f/11 or f/16, depending on how close the closest object you’d like to keep in focus is. There’s actually a table that can help you calculate the distance of how far you […]
What’s the Most Important Aspect of Photography?
Light. Light is the most important aspect of photography. By far. If you think about it, light is what the camera’s sensor absorbs to create the actual image, but beyond that, it’s light that can make or break a shot. Think about the different types of light different times of day can offer. Morning light […]
How Do Camera Lens Aperture Sizes Compare to One Another?
It’s always a great shock when you see the actual size of a lens aperture. The stops between aperture sizes can be dramatic in actuality, but at times, they don’t look very dramatic at all. If you remember what a “stop” is, you’ll know that for every stop, you either halve or double your exposure. […]
Improve Your Photography by Changing Position
One of the toughest things to change in photography is position. For some reason, the human mind likes to stay put when it makes a decision. As much as we think we change, we stay the same more often then not. While that’s fine in many situations, when it comes to photography, that’s not the […]
How Can I Give a Photo a Star Rating on Canon Rebel T7i (800D)?
Question: I have heard that I’m able to rate photos right inside of my Canon Rebel T7i (800D) and that those star ratings will appear and be searchable and sortable inside of Adobe Bridge and Lightroom. Is this true? If so, how would I go about rating a photo that I took? Answer: I didn’t […]
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