Photography Tutorials

It seems like everybody loves looking at beautiful sunsets, which is probably why sunset photography is such a competitive niche. This article provides some simple techniques that will help you to photograph truly stunning sunset images.

This is a comprehensive yet very easy tutorial on how to master your photography techniques, when it comes to making portraits. What makes the portrait look professional and what can ruin the picture. Also, the article teaches how to edit in Photoshop, correct and print your photos afterwards.

A good photojournalist uses the external flash at appropriate moments to complement available ambient light. With a flash mounted at all times, you can address any kind of lighting situation, without having to scramble for one when the need arises.

Wildlife photography is a pursuit that can be challenging, frustrating, but ultimately rewarding to any photographer.

New photographers are taught the ‘rule of thirds’ as one of the first guidelines toward making exciting pictures. This is a technique in which a hypothetical grid (similar to a noughts and crosses board) is utilized to frame subjects.

Camera Lenses serve as the digital SLR cameras “eye,” the lens determines what and how your camera will see your subject and how well that view is transmitted to the camera’s sensor chip for recording. The way I like to look at camera lenses is as painter’s brushes, broad strokes, medium stokes, all purpose brushes, and small detail brushes.

Like any subject in nature photography, waterfall photos also come with their own set of challenges. A beginner can be disappointed with their results time and time again, simply due to simple mistakes that can be easily overcome.

There are two types of motion blur pictures. The first type is where you keep your surroundings static and bring out motion in the subject. The other type of blur is where you keep the subject mostly in focus and get a motion blur effect on the background. Here are a few quick pointers for taking some cool motion blur shots.

There are various factors that come to mind when purchasing a digital camera. You are going to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars for a camera, so, you need to make sure you don’t buy a model that doesn’t really suit your purpose or is much too advanced for your requirements.

What is an ultra wide lens and why use one? My take on the Sigma 10-20