IndustryDev

You are here: Home / Archives for Photography

Photography

The Photography category 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.

Page: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16

What’s the Best Lens for Food Photography?

Question From a Reader: I’d love to get the opinions of others on this topic. I know everyone is going to say something different, but I’m flying blind right now. As it stands, I’m using my Canon kit lens that’s 18-135mm for my food photography and it’s working okay. The thing is, I was taking […]

How Do I Get the Background Blur in My Pictures?

The big question for new photographers is, “How do I get the pretty blur in the backgrounds of my photos?” I can remember wanting to know the same thing when I started out. It actually wasn’t very tough to do. All I used to do was zoom in as much as I could with my […]

Canon 18-135mm STM Lens Extends By Itself When Facing Down

I recently purchased a really nice Canon 18-135mm STM lens and noticed that when I point it straight down to take food photos or something like that, the lens slowly extends by itself. For years, I used an 18-135mm Canon kit lens and that didn’t do this at all. The reason I purchased this new […]

Photography Challenge: Use Light as Your Subject

Have you ever taken a photo in mid-afternoon when the sun was high in the sky and discovered that no matter what you did, the image looked terrible? Like, flat and too bright? I have. It’s so frustrating. I’ve gone out there with the best of intentions and photographed away, only to be disappointed with […]

Can I Take .MOV Videos with My Canon Rebel T6i?

I have an account with iStock where I usually upload photos in JPG format. I recently began taking video for stock purposes as well and noticed that iStock only accepts video files in .MOV format. My camera, which is a Canon Rebel T6i, apparently records video in .MP4 format and after looking around for a […]

F/8 is the Sweet Spot Aperture in Photography

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 […]

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 […]