Category: Beginner’s Guide

  • Beginner’s Guide: – Focus & Infinity – Understanding Lenses

    Beginner’s Guide: – Focus & Infinity – Understanding Lenses

    Infinity Focus When it comes to focal length and focus, is there really every distance to focus for? Infinity focus in landscape photography is when a camera’s focus is set to infinity. It is usually used to create dramatic landscape shots with a large depth of field. Infinity focus can also be used to create […]

  • Beginner’s guide to Night Photography

    Beginner’s guide to Night Photography

    Night photography and Beginner photographers can go together and they should go together. This articles discussed some Night photography basics for anyone interested.

  • How to Photograph the Northern Lights

    How to Photograph the Northern Lights

    A total guide to taking photographs of the Northern lights for Digital Cameras & wide angle lenses. This night photography guide includes camera settings, equipment suggestions and some Northern lights photo examples.

  • Landscape Photography Beginner Guide

    Landscape Photography Beginner Guide

    Taking photos of Landscapes is such a cool activity that connects you to the nature and helps you forget negative thoughts. If your photography is good, then your viewers will benefit in the same ways. Here are a few thoughts on what landscape photography is, and how to develop your landscape photography skills.

  • The importance of photography

    The importance of photography

    Everyone has a camera these days. Millions of photos are posted on instagram and facebook everyday. Some people take snap shots of their meals, some document their travels with selfies. You could come to the conclusion that all this photographic activity dissolves the value of a photograph…

  • Here’s How to Take Stunning Outdoor Photography

    Here’s How to Take Stunning Outdoor Photography

    How to take stunning outdoor photography.

  • 9 Easy Innovative Photography Tutorials and Tips

    9 Easy Innovative Photography Tutorials and Tips

    Innovative Photography Tutorials The scope of modern photography is a rather vast one. If you put some effort into polishing your skills to perfection, it’s quite possible to get a hold of it like a real professional. The truth is, being a photographer is quite a lucrative career, and it provides exposure to a lot […]

  • Beginners Guide to Aperture – Understanding Sharpness

    Beginners Guide to Aperture – Understanding Sharpness

    Aperture Camera Aperture is quite simply a hole. It is an adjustable hole. The adjustments are normally 1 stop increments. For example f/2.8 is double the size of f/5.6. Because the aperture is double the size, it lets twice as much light onto the sensor. This can result in a brighter image (1 stop brighter) […]

  • Beginner’s Guide: – Semi-Automatic vs Manual Mode – Understanding Cameras

    Beginner’s Guide: – Semi-Automatic vs Manual Mode – Understanding Cameras

    I would like to go beyond the automatic mode. Should I shoot only in manual mode though? When should I use the “Semi-automatic (priority)” modes?

  • Eliminate the Mathematics from your photo shoot

    Eliminate the Mathematics from your photo shoot

    Ask yourself, which mental trait is the opposite of “Creative”? This article encourages you to learn the mathematics, but leave it at home when you are exploring with your camera.

  • 3 is the magic number

    3 is the magic number

    Simple landscape composition. Three is already a Magic Number in photography. How many legs does a tripod have? It wouldn’t work the same with 4 legs, or 2 legs. Although this is engineering magic and the principle of tripod is much less flexible than visual art, 3 can be magic in landscape photography. It is […]

  • Photography as Communication

    Photography as Communication

    If you have communication in mind when you take the picture, then your photograph will have a communication value. This article discusses photography as communication.

  • Photography Basics – camera settings and types

    Photography Basics – camera settings and types

    On a DSLR there is a choice of settings that allow you to have different levels of control over the camera. First you need to consider what you want to do, or to be precise, what kind of result do you want to achieve?