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When we are looking to control the amount of light entering the camera and hitting the sensor, there are only so many things that we can do with our exposure controls. Being able to reduce the inbound light can open creative doors for us all. This is where neutral density filters come in.
Ever since manufacturers began building cameras with sensors that have a different size than a 35mm negative, we have had to deal with the impact this has on angle of view and focal length.
Lens compression looks like the distance between near and distant subjects in the frame is reduced. You will read many photographers say they like the “compression” delivered by a telephoto lens for portraits or the lack of “compression” in a wide-angle lens for landscapes. The words make sense because of what we see, but we are not seeing any compression, instead we are seeing perspective exaggeration.
Photographing birds in the wild can be fun but is also challenging. Let’s talk about gear and some tips to help you make more powerful birding shots.
There are many opportunities to photograph aircraft over the course of the summer from big air shows to smaller, local events. Getting good shots at air shows is not hard, but some tips are going to help you out.
We will use different settings for different types of shots, but do work to keep your ISO as low as possible for the best colour and dynamic range.
Ask any professional photographer and he or she will tell you that being able to control the light is incredibly important to a truly successful image. We will think about position of the light, time of day, light colour, quality and direction. When it comes time to supplement or replace the ambient light with flash, how can we achieve this goal?
Photos that are not printed are often dead. Social media lifetimes are so short that while the internet keeps everything, no one sees anything about five minutes after it’s posted. Worse are the millions of images left to die alone in the dark on hard drives.
The only way to preserve memories with any kind of chance of success is to make prints.
Video is hot, hot, hot. Carrying around a tripod is often not. Most viral videos are shot live, hand-held and in real time, but because most of it is shot on smart devices, the results are often shaky.
New growth always gets photographers thinking about macro and close-up work. In this article, I want to share with you three tools that can absolutely make your macro and close-up photography easier, and more successful.