Category: Photography
Travel Photography Accessories: What to Take in your Kit?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Photography and “traveling light” are, to a certain extent, mutually exclusive ideas; by its very nature photography demands you have to have a certain amount of equipment, and when you’re traveling with a digital camera, this need increases. You not only need to be certain you have lenses to cover most shooting eventualities, but with…
Starting Architectural Photography – Research and Documentation
| October 15, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Knowledge helps It helps to photograph a subject well if you know something about it. Otherwise you may well miss points about it that are significant. It will help if you know something about architecture in general, and there are plenty of good guides. Architectural Photography Lighting Architectural photography lighting requires finding the best time…
Photographing Christmas and Other Celebrations
| May 19, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Most of us will be celebrating something in the next couple of weeks – whether it’s New Year or Christmas (assuming we’re with the other 99% of people celebrating a year early – but then we can have another party next year too!) Probably if you are intending to record these events seriously, or to…
Processing Marks – Black and White Film Development
| April 29, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Identifying the causes of different types of processing marks would be really good fun if it wasn’t so annoying how a perfectly good shot can be ruined by the appearance of a stray hair or a sprinkling of dust! Such marks are most commonly caused by the obstruction of light by very small particles or…
Unsharp Pictures – Enhancing Photographs
| April 29, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Possibly the most common cause of disappointing pictures is lack of sharpness. Unfortunately, many people are quite happy with fuzzy pictures, which is a shame because they are probably not fulfilling the potential of their equipment to deliver pin-sharp prints. Even the most basic or cheapest of cameras are capable of producing surprisingly clear and…
Photo Tips: Film vs. Digital Cameras
| April 18, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
The debate rages between film purists and digital pioneers about the relative quality and benefits of film photography versus digital. In putting digital and film head to head, it becomes clear that the situation does not compare “apples to apples.” For starters, the Canon was definitely more precise and accurate in some ways than the…
Night Photography – History, Techniques and Examples
| April 18, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Growing up in a small town in Canada, I can still remember the sun slowly disappearing into the distant horizon while the streets became completely dark. This was the time when I would run into the house, lock the door and sit on the living room sofa to look out the window into a dusk…
Making Photomontages: Be creative – Make Your Own Photomontages, Multiple Prints
| April 18, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
The combining of several photographs into a single image can be accomplished in a number of different ways. Mainly of the early photomonteurs favored the use of a pair of scissors, pasting down the often roughly cut scraps onto a more substantial background. A similar assembly method can be applied to photograph, although for more…
War Photography (1839-1919)
| April 18, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Both of the two original photographic processes, the Daguerrotype and the Calotype, announced in 1839, required exposures that were measured in minutes, so neither was suited to the photography of war. Frenchman Hippolyte Bayard (1801 -1887) (one of the disregarded pioneer inventors of photography) photographed the remains of the barricades following the 1848 revolution in…
Using Your Digital Camera: Guide to Focusing Your Camera
| April 18, 2011 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Focus is essential to taking photographs. If you don’t get the focus set correctly for the distance of your subject to the camera, it will appear blurred – out of focus. Occasionally photographers will deliberately use an out of focus blur for artistic effect, but normally it is simply an error. Most popular cameras now…