Photography Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

Believe it or not, one of the greatest challenges budding photographers face is deciding exactly what to take photos of. As time goes on and as they accrue experience, they develop what’s called an “eye.” This eye has the uncanny ability to see things. The strangest things. Things that might not be easily noticed by […]

Trying to get a camera to focus on the correct object in a photo has always been a challenge for many people. This is especially true as they move from the very beginning stages of photography to the more amateur stages. In the beginning, many folks simply point and shoot from a distance. As they […]

I’ve taken a lot of photographs in my day and I’ve noticed a lot of things. One of these things has to do with darker, underexposed photos. It seems as though underexposed images are slightly noisy when compared to their well exposed counterparts. Now, when I say “darker,” I mean underexposed. I don’t mean photos […]

Night photography is a lot of fun, but it does pose a few challenges. It requires that you know how to operate your camera on a much higher level than you would normally need to know. It also requires that you become much more aware of your surroundings. When shooting at night, one vital sense […]

There’s something about the photography exposure triangle that I just love. I can talk about it for hours if anyone cared to listen. It’s just technical enough to keep me interested and its concepts can be continuously applied to all types of photography. Actually, it has to be applied for decent photographs to be captured. […]

If I had to guess, I’d say that one of the most important operational aspects of any camera would be its ability to change functions on the fly. I’m sure you’ll agree when I say that the easier it is to alter the settings of any camera, the better. After all, what’s the sense of […]

One of the biggest issues for someone to deal with after they purchase a new DSLR camera is trying to figure out how photography works. I mean, let’s be honest here, there are a ton of buttons and levers to contend with on most cameras out there. On my Canon Rebel T7i, there are 15 […]

Most of us think of the noise we see in photographs as being related to the photographer using a high ISO when shooting. While that’s the case a good majority of the time, there is another type of noise that can be introduced to images that’s triggered when a photographer uses longer exposure times. Longer […]

I absolutely love night photography. I can remember the first time I took some night time photos and I was blown away by what I saw through the screen on the back of my camera. Apparently, digital cameras completely transform whatever it is you’re taking a picture of into something totally different. Brighter, more visible, […]

I remember back when I got my first real camera. It was a Canon Rebel T3i and it was fabulous. The day I bought it, I tore open the package, put the battery in and started snapping away. Of course, I had to choose the mode first and of course, that was Auto. These days, […]