December 15th, 2011
Michelle
The brightness of a scene is measured by the camera’s exposure meters. The exposure settings are then set in accordance to the data collected from the camera’s exposure meters.
© Smith Innovation
This system works best in situations where the scene isn’t too dark, or too bright. This easily explains why a green landscape will expose correctly.
Snow is extremely bright. Therefore, your camera’s metering system may not be able to handle this too well.
Ever come across a situation whereby the results of your shot of snow make it look muddy-grey? Otherwise, does everything else in the image look darker?
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November 28th, 2011
Michelle
Garden bird photography can be done wherever you are, whether you live in the middle of a big city or in the middle of nowhere – it doesn’t matter.
This is because you will very much likely have access to outdoor space such as gardens, balconies, even window ledges are fine. With sufficient planning, you may not even need to leave your house to take photos of birds.
Garden Birds Photography Tips #1 – Lenses To Use
© Peter (Letrow)
Garden birds are usually small in size – there are even those which you can carry or hold by the palm of your hands such as sparrows, robins or blue tits.
If you want to shoot a full-frame portrait photo of the bird, you will have to be very close to it.
Otherwise, you can opt to use a long lens of minimum 300mm in length. Using a 400mm lens will be good, but if you can afford it, the 500mm lens is most ideal.
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October 31st, 2011
Michelle
The main and most important aspect of photography is light. Heading out to conduct photography during the mid-day will only result in you having photographs with flat shots. During the mid-day the sun is as it’s brightest, which also means that light is direct and at its harshest.
© Doug Chinnery
Pick a hotspot and be there before dawn to photograph the breathtaking scenery alongside the warm and orange hue sunlight.
This moment is often times called the ‘Golden Hour’ by photographers.
In spite of that, shadows form as light falls onto the beautiful scenery at an angle, creating an opportunity for photographers to shoot an interesting landscape photo.
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September 9th, 2011
Michelle
How can we get hold of great Speed Photography shots? We’ll be using eggs for this experimental example. Here are 5 important speed photography tips for beginners.
Speed Photography Tips #1 – Egg Explosion Set Ups
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To start up, the venue of your egg explosion photography experiment must be in a darkened room.
To avoid reflections, you can make use of an opened velvet-lined box with a glass on top of it.
The only photography equipment I used to provide lighting was the Nikon SB-100 speed light. It is also advisable that you wear protective clothing during the experiment.
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August 10th, 2011
Michelle
Here are 10 Hot Tips on photographing your subjects with the power of candles!
Candlelight Photography Tips #1 – Don’t Use Your Flash!
Flashes will over power your ambient light and look very harsh. Using flash will only spoil the mood of the photo you’re taking, so turn it off and use the ambient light instead.
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Candlelight Photography Tips #2 – Shutter Speed Essentials
You’ll want to set a low shutter speed to let in some light – but also remember that low shutter speeds can risk blur from movement, watch out for the candle’s flickering too!
If everything’s still and not moving, you can get a pretty low and perfect shutter speed.
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June 4th, 2011
Michelle
Concert Photography Tips #4 – Keeping Your Concert Photos Sharp
You will have to conduct your concert photography attempts at reasonably low shutter speed levels under low light conditions to ensure that the amount of light that enters the camera is sufficient.
Nonetheless you have to bear in mind that with lower shutter speeds, the results of your photography shots are at risk and may not be sharp in focus simply because your hands or the subject itself moves.
In such situations, you will have to support your camera better to avoid blurred photography results.
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May 25th, 2011
Michelle
Concert Photography Tips #1 – DSLR Settings for Concert Photography
When it comes to concert photography, it will definitely be great that you set your ISO high so that it works well in dark atmospheres at concerts.
Set your DSLR’s ISO level to 800 or 1600 during a concert performance that is dark and moody. However, at ISO level of 1600, your concert photographs tend to get grainy from digital noise.
Such concert photography results are normally unavoidable, unless of course you’re using a higher-end camera model.
Instead of that, it also gives your concert photos a granular, rough-like sort of look. This can be good as it has the tendency to add an edge onto your concert photos. This works best towards high-energy performances.
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May 5th, 2011
Michelle
Daylight Portrait Photography Tips #1 – Important Exposure Tips
It takes just a minute or so to set your camera to the right exposure. Therefore, get it right before you head outdoors so that once you are on location, you can immediately begin to conduct daylight portrait photography.
First of all, you will want to make sure that your depth-of-field is limited by setting your camera to aperture-priority mode. A recommendation is that you begin your daylight portrait photography by shooting at f/5.6.
It is alright to increase the ISO rating to 400 when your shutter speed is low enough to risk camera shakes. Also, activate the image stabilization feature of your camera if you have it.
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March 25th, 2011
Michelle
Interior Photography Tips #8 – Make Small Spaces Look Bigger
The next interior photography tips are techniques to make small rooms look bigger.
It is best to remove unnecessary things or items when it comes to photographing small spaces.
This gets the small space to appear looking bigger in your interior photographs.
A small room painted with white or light colors helps make the room look bigger than it actually is. This includes white or light colored furniture and fittings such as cupboards and curtains.
If you can shoot interior photographs with wide angle lenses such as a 16mm-35mm, use it!
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March 19th, 2011
Michelle
Interior Photography Tips #4 – Lighting Importance
When it comes to interior photography, bear in mind that interior photos should be bright with perfect exposures as well as fresh vibrant colors. Make necessary adjustments to avoid bad lighting combinations of dark corners and overly bright natural daylight coming from windows. Try to obtain even lighting.
There are a number of methods you can implement to achieve even lighting. When the sunlight from windows is too strong, pull the curtains to reduce the amount of light streaming in.
Otherwise, you can opt to use vellum paper and tape them over the windows. Switch the lights in the room on to counteract the bright light coming in from windows. Read more »
