Shadows – The Forgotten Element That Can Make (Or Break) A Photograph
06/13/07 - As photographers, we obsess over light. How much of it, the direction it’s coming from, the color and so on… Isn’t the very WORD – photograph – ancient Greek for writing with light? (Photo = light, graph = to write) Maybe it’s Latin, I’m doing this from memory. In our obsession, we buy studio lights [...]
An Introduction to Macro Photography
06/13/07 - Exploring the world of miniature objects with a macro lens is a special and exciting area of photography, and once you start, you will quickly become addicted. The world of macro photography holds many delights and is an area that cannot be appreciated with the human eye. Macro photography is the name given to close-up [...]
Time Lapse Still Digital Photography Technique by Ziv Haparnas
06/13/07 - Time lapse photography is a technique that allows to quickly and visually convey processes that take a long time in real life. For example time lapse photography can shrink to 10 seconds the complete process of building a new bridge. Although usually used in videos time lapse can also be used in still digital photography. [...]
Night Photography: Photographing The Moon In The Landscape by David Rose
06/13/07 - Photographers have been trying to utilize the light of the moon in their landscape photography ever since the photographic process was invented. It was not until World War II, however, that technology had improved enough to make night photography possible. Today, despite technological advances, knowing the phase of the moon during a nighttime photography shoot [...]
Portrait Photography: Tips and Methods
02/16/07 - Portrait is defined as, “A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example.” In the area of portrait photography there are some guidelines that you should consider when you go to take photos of people. The different types of portraits are: close-ups, facial shots, [...]
Photography how-to
02/3/07 - Shadows – The Forgotten Element That Can Make (or Break) A Photograph As photographers, we obsess over light. How much of it, the direction it’s coming from, the color and so on… An Introduction to Macro Photography Exploring the world of miniature objects with a macro lens is a special and exciting area of photography, [...]
SLR and not SLR cameras overview
01/26/07 - First of all, almost all the cameras can be divided into two groups : mirror and not mirror cameras. Mirror (SLR) SLR-Single Lens Reflex – i.e. one-objective mirror. Not especially pressing in technical details – difference of these cameras from going below that you look at object of shooting through an objective of the camera. [...]
Golden section in photography
01/26/07 - For many centuries, to build a harmonious compositions artists from the “Golden Section”. Golden section – division AC line into two parts so that more than half of the 12th to a lesser AB, as a period of the BC is AB (ie, AB : BC = AC : AB). The ratio is approximately 5:8. [...]
Digital photography RAW format
01/25/07 - Digital cameras typically offer multiple formats save the image : JPEG, TIFF, RAW.The JPEG algorithm uses data compression, which is an irreversible loss of information (which was, incidentally, to a certain level compression these losses almost invisible, but the file size is produced relatively small).TIFF format using compression without loss but the price for that [...]
Cameras and Lenses – A brief description of cameras and lens choice
01/25/07 - 35mm fixed lens cameras – Thanks to today’s technology there are many fine “point and shoot” cameras on the market. Compact and lightweight, with auto-focus and auto-exposure they are well suited to travel photography. If possible, use one that has a manual override for the exposure settings. However, be careful of the auto focus. Make [...]
