Photography Quick Tip#7 – Watch wildlife first

If you are trying to take pictures of wildlife, the first thing to do is to sit down, out the way, quietly, and just watch the animal you want to take a picture of. Getting used to how it behaves will let you get closer to it, and you might get a more spectacular image [...]

Wildlife shooting tips

I will be covering shooting (photographically, not bulletty) wildlife in more detail in the future, but I just found a good post by Chris Garrett from the DSLRBlog called Wildlife Photography Tips For Beginners. It’s got some good advice for going from taking pictures of your pets or creatures in your garden to getting out [...]

Photography Quick Tip#6 – Use a tripod

Tripods will ensure that your picture is free from camera shake, giving you a much sharper picture. Of course this depends on whether the tripod is sturdy and you get the focus correct. Tripods can be quite cheap, but you will find the the cheap ones are fairly flimsy when extended to any height. It [...]

Updates, or lack of

These last few weeks, since having an operation, I was hoping to get loads of useful info on this site and really get it going, but as usual life just got in the way. My freelance web development work suddenly got busy and the sun came out too. The good thing is that I have [...]

Example of changing the shutter speed

Here is an example of how shutter speed can be used creatively. The subject of these two shots is the same, the position is the same but the images look quite different. You can see that the image on the left shows the water drops more clearly. This was taken with a fast shutter speed, [...]

Photographer’s Block

Writer’s have it so why can’t photographers? When you are new to photography, or have just bought a fancy new camera, there comes a point when you think “I want to do some photography, but I just don’t know what to take pictures of!”. Maybe the weather is rubbish, maybe you have some time off [...]

Photography Quick Tip#5 – Always have your camera with you

This is a simple tip and it’s that you should carry your camera around with you whenever you can. Even it’s just your mobile phone camera, you’ve got a means to record an event. OK, you may not get the best picture, but you can capture a moment that may be important to you, or [...]

What is ISO?

ISO is actually a common short name for the International Organisation for Standardization. The ISO setting on your camera is something that has carried over from film. Remember back in the ‘old days’ when you used to go and buy your rolls of film and you would buy film rated at 100, 200 or 400, [...]

New Look To Photography Basics

After some thought I decided to change the design of this site to something which I think is a little better on the eye. I also had a few tips from Vivien over at Inspiration Bit, which is a great blog for design tips with loads of useful links. She was kind enough to give [...]

Ebay is not always cheaper

Believe it or not, you can buy things cheaper from other internet stores then you can on ebay. OK, there are some bargains to be had, especially with photography equipment, but the common thought that everything is cheaper on ebay is not always true. One great source of second hand camera gear is on photography [...]