Photography Quick Tip#3 – Protect your lens with a UV filter
If your lens allows you to screw on filters, get yourself a UV filter, or Skylight filter and put it on your lens and keep it there. You now have a lens guard. Buying a new filter is a lot easier and cheaper than buying a new lens if you manage to scratch it or [...]
What is aperture?
Aperture is the term used to describe what is simply the hole in the lens that light travels through to reach the camera’s sensor or film. This hole can be set at different sizes, and combined with shutter speed, you get the two main settings which control exposure. There is some maths involved to get [...]
Camera clubs are like Marmite.
Camera clubs are a bit like Marmite, you either like them or you don’t. Camera clubs have a reputation as being a few grey haired old men talking about the pros and cons of a certain film, or comparing how big their lenses are. However, camera clubs are NOT all like this, and they can [...]
10 reasons why digital is better than film
With digital photography becoming more accessible to the masses, and the level of technology that is available becoming cheaper all the time, for someone wanting to learn photography, digital is the best option over film because: 1. No more processing costs. With digital you can take as many pictures as you want. You don’t have [...]
Example of Over Exposure and Under Exposure
Here’s an image that illustrates what Under Exposed images, correctly Exposed images and Over Exposed images look like.
What is shutter speed?
Shutter speed is a setting on your camera which controls the length of time the shutter is open, allowing light through the lens to the sensor inside your camera. Shutter speeds can go from very small fractions of a second, to several seconds long on most cameras. So why would you want to change it? [...]
Photography Quick Tip#2 – Look for unwanted elements through your viewfinder
Before you press the shutter release button (take the picture) stop and look at what you can see through the view finder or what you can see on the screen on your camera. Are there any distracting objects in view? Are there any bright areas of the image that will distract the eye of the [...]
Photography Quick Tip#1 – Take 2 or 3 shots from different viewpoints
Always take 2 or 3 shots of your subject from different angles or positions. As taking digital pictures is essentially free, it’s worth experimenting as much as possible. So if you see something that you think will make a good picture, try taking several pictures of it. Move closer in, or further away. Choose different [...]
The three main types of digital camera
If you are considering buying a new digital camera, or you just want to know what types of digital camera are available then hopefully this will help you. First there are the Compact Cameras which are the smaller (as the name compact suggests), pocket or handbag sized camera that are very popular as they usually [...]
Go Flickr
In order to allow you to post any images related to this site I have create a group on Flickr, a fantastic online photogaphy sharing community, which I will run in conjunction with this site. For those of you who haven’t tried Flickr, and want somewhere to display your images, this is the place I’d [...]
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