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Photography Tips
How To Know When To Press The Shutter In Sports Photography
Sports photographers need an understanding of the sport so they can to anticipate the action to capture the decisive moments.
How to Take Photos Using the Rule of Thirds
The art world is a good source of tips on photographic composition. The Rule of thirds is simple to use and is one of the digital photography fundamentals.
How to Use Old Lenses on Digital Cameras
The move to bayonet mount lens in the 1970s meant photographers needed adaptors to use their existing screw mount lenses on new cameras.
How to Use Photographic Metering Patterns
Exposure systems prioritize image areas giving a range of metering solutions to meet different lighting conditions. Tips on the correct digital camera exposure pattern.
Prime and Zoom Lenses on DSLRs
Why fixed and variable focal length lenses have their place on digital cameras. Prime lenses have advantages that sometimes make them the first out of the camera bag as zoom lenses are not the best choice for all occasions.
Digital Camera Program Modes
Why So Many Scene Modes, and What Do They All Do - The range of program modes offers versatility as digital camera makers recognize the many different photographic situations, requiring slightly different approaches.
Background Composition For Successful Photos
How to make the background in digital photographs enhance your digital camera's images using the art of composition
How to Use Lens Aperture in Digital Photography
Photography tips on how setting the aperture on a digital camera is more than controlling the amount of light passing through the lens.
Tripods and Monopods Reduce Camera Shake in Photography:
Tripods and monopods steady the camera, reduce camera shake and allowing slower shutter speeds. They also aid composition, as well as taking the load of heavy lenses
Camera Shutter Speed For Movement and Motion:
Shutter speed not only influences the exposure it also affects the sharpness of a photograph, and is a critical factor in portraying motion in an image
Photography Exposure Using Digital Camera Histograms
Digital Histograms help photographers adjust exposure settings on digital cameras in the field.
Beat Camera Autofocus Problems:
Digital Photography tips: manually focusing your camera lens instead of using autofocus - why and when to do it.
Photographic Depth of Field:
Getting everything in a photograph in focus is not always possible, and not always desirable. This distance from the front to the back of the sharp area is the depth of field, indicating how much of your photograph is in focus.
Camera Flash: When Not To Use It:
Your digital camera flash has a limited range and may not be suitable for photography at floodlight events. Explore how to take a better picture on these big occasions.