If you own a DSLR camera, you probably know that you can customize many of its available settings. There are tons of things you can change, from the quality of the photos you take to which buttons you press to auto-focus to how you control the flash. It’s because of this type of customization, amateur […]
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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.
How to Work the Battery & Media Card for Your Canon Rebel T3i
I’d like to use this post to talk about two very basic topics that many beginning photographers concern themselves with. The first has to do with batteries and the second has to do with media, or memory, cards for the Canon Rebel line of DSLR cameras. Canon Rebel Camera Batteries This section isn’t going to […]
How to Set the Photo Quality in your Canon Rebel DSLR Camera
Before participating in any type of photo shoot, it’s important to decide what kind of quality is necessary in your photographs. If you’re being paid, such as portrait, wedding and sport photographers oftentimes are, you’ll want to be sure to set your Canon Rebel to the highest quality output possible. Conversely, if you’re shooting to […]
The 4 Rules of Attaching a Lens to Your Canon Camera
I was talking to a friend of mine a few days ago when they asked me a photography related question. It was “What do those dots mean on my camera lens mount? There are two of them; one is circle and red and the other is square and white. I know one of them is […]
An Overview of the Canon EOS Rebel T3i DSLR Camera
My goal for this website is for it to be a resource for what I like to call “Internet Professionals.” This title would include those who blog for a living. That, or those who enjoy taking photographs and posting them online. Or perhaps people who might want to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop, Bridge, […]
Photo Processing – One Image at a Time
This post was written by photographer Belinda Greb. To view Belinda’s work, please visit the websites in her bio at the bottom of this page. Every photographer has their own process that begins just before they take the picture and ends when they have a finished file ready for printing. No one process is correct, […]
How Do Photographers Store Their Photographs?
Since the first day I began working on computers, I have concerned myself with how I would store all my precious data. And through the years, after much trial and error, I think I’ve discovered a fairly decent way to set up my “system” of file storage. In today’s post, I’m going to share that […]
How To Use Your Camera Histogram For Awesome Photos
During my early years with photography, I did a lot of shooting in various automatic modes. It wasn’t until later that I began exploring the plethora of manual options my camera offered. And while, during those later times, I enjoyed the enormous creativity priority modes and my range of lenses offered, it wasn’t until much […]
Understanding Exposure Compensation in Photography
I’ve talked a lot about exposure when it comes to photography on this website. Much of my discussion focused primarily on how to set your camera properly for the lighting conditions you face as a photographer. And most of the time, through the settings you choose, accurate and appropriate exposure is achieved. There are occasions […]
Understanding the Basics of Camera Lenses
In photography, really cool lenses are those mysterious pieces of gear that everyone loves to talk about, but few have enough money to afford. We read about them on our favorite photography websites and drool over the pictures they take. And as we browse the sites of the photographers we admire most, our guts tells […]