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Beginner’s Guide: – Focus & Infinity – Understanding Lenses
Infinity focus in landscape photography is when a camera’s focus is set to infinity. It is usually used to create dramatic landscape…
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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…
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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…
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Arguing for Aperture – Understanding Lenses
I am a fan of the semi-automatic modes and when I am on a tripod facing a natural landscape scene, I usually…
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Colour Ripples – Glacier Ice on Diamond Beach
We caught the tail end of the overnight storm at Jokulsarlon Diamond Ice Beach. The wind & sand created incredible scalloped textures…
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Do I love cats as much as landscapes?
The answer is yes in truth I love them both the same. Although photographing them is very different, there is a connection. Like humans…
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The beauty of f/6.3 – Zeiss 50mm Prime Lens
In situations where you want to isolate a large subject, like a horse, ice berg or motorbike, f/6.3 has the great mixture…
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Intelligent focussing
With the ability to crop and adjust exposure in post-processing, focusing is one aspect which cannot be changed after the fact. In…
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Landscape composition – the story of the 3 grounds
Considering a photo as a story can be useful if you are careful to show how the elements of a scene relate…
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Night Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness
Night photography is a challenging hobby. You are taking a picture in conditions where you can barely see your camera. You have…
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Focusing Landscapes – Hyperfocal Distance
Hyperfocal distance involves careful focusing adjustments to ensure that objects close to the camera and objects in the distance all have the…
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Photography Blending Techniques – Focus Stacking
This articles looks at a lengthy and complicated procedure to render every part of a scene with perfect focus. the aim is…
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Landscape Composition – following and breaking the rules
The rules of composition are guidelines for producing a well designed image. ‘Guidelines’ are probably a better description than ‘rules’ as they…
