Photography Step By Step

Real Estate Photography Tips

Andrei — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:36:40 +0000

Homeowners and realtors rely on the pictures that accompany their real estate listings to sell their home or property. A poor quality picture can turn away a potential buyer. It is therefore, an absolute necessity for the pictures to be of high-quality. Here are some tips that can help you get the best out of [...]

Modern Photography

Andrei — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:30:47 +0000

The digital takeover in photography is hardly a new thing, but with film companies folding and going into administration it’s important for any budding, amateur, hobbyist and professional photographers alike to think about the impact it is having on the industry. Before we used to develop our films and physically print our photos, or get [...]

10 Tips To Make Your Food Photography Look Natural

Andrei — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:39:46 +0000

Food photography is an interesting aspect of photography which deals with food items whether shot in the studio or in natural locations. For most food photographers, they use several elements to make their photography appear very natural. People generally expect to see their food from a specific point of view, which means that food photographers [...]

Fresh Ideas for Displaying Your Photographs

Andrei — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:34:35 +0000

You work hard on you photographs, setting up shots, waiting for the right moment, taking hundreds of shots to get the perfect one. And when you are done, you probably put it in your portfolio and make a print, maybe frame it, and hang it on a wall. While there is nothing wrong with displaying [...]

Portrait Photography Tips

Andrei — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:09:09 +0000

Capturing an image of a person’s face, their entire body, or even a group of people is most commonly referred to as a portrait photo, or portraiture. There are different ways a portrait photo can be shot, whether it is at setup shot with the subject looking into the camera, or in a more documentary [...]

Magnetic Storage Devices

Andrei — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:50:09 +0000

The building blocks of digital images are bits. These can either be zero or one. Magnetic storage devices such as hard disks distinguish a one from a zero by changing the magnetic properties of the disk in that location. The great thing about hard disks is that their capacities are constantly increasing while prices are [...]

Lens Vignetting

Andrei — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:26:18 +0000

In photography, lens vignetting is a reduction of an image’s brightness or saturation at the corners compared to the image center. The word vignette originally referred to a decorative border in a book. Later, the word came to be used for a photographic portrait which is clear in the center, and fades off at the edges. [...]

Camera Field of View

Andrei — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:06:59 +0000

The camera field of view is determined by the angle of view from the lens out to the scene and can be measured vertically or horizontally. Because the aspect ratio differs between formats, the more universal camera field of view is calculated along the diagonal of the scene. A shorter focal length (such as a [...]

Perspective In Photography

Andrei — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:48:25 +0000

If you photograph a subject with a tele lens and want it to have the same size on the sensor when photographing it with a wide angle lens, you would have to move closer to the subject. Because this would cause the perspective to change, lenses with different focal lengths are said to have a [...]

Macro

Andrei — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:46:06 +0000

In photographic terms, “macro” means the optical ability to produce a 1:1 or higher magnification of an object on the sensor. For instance if you photograph a aquarium shrimp with an actual size of 21.6 mm so that it fills the 35mm sensor (43.3mm diagonal), the shrimp gets magnified with a ratio of 43.3 to [...]