The core basics for photography include ISO, shutter speed and aperture.  That trifecta isn’t all that makes up photography though, focal length will also factor greatly into your photography and have a direct impact upon your final image.  Wikipedia describes photography focal length as: longer focal length or lower optical power is associated with larger [...]

Before digital photography and post production on computers, you picked film for the outcome of image you wanted.  For neutral, run of the mill shots any conventional color film would do the trick, but for move vibrant and saturated images, you would choose something like Fuji Velvia slide film or my personal favorite, Kodak E-100 [...]

Photoshop can really be a photographer’s best friend or worst nightmare. It all depends on how comfortable you feel in the program and whether you know the simple tips and tricks to creating photo magic. Here are 12 video tutorials for improving your Photoshop skills quickly. Essential Resize and Color Photoshop Skills – A quick [...]

When you live in a city, as most Light Stalking readers do, then at some point you’re probably going to find yourself taking a photograph of a building. Unfortunately, it is very easy to take very poor photos of architecture. Hopefully, these tips will help you capture something a little better than just a snap. [...]

This is a guest post by Ed Verosky. Boudoir is a popular genre of portraiture that many wedding and family photographers are adding to their repertoire. If you’ve been thinking about offering this service to your clients, this article should provide a few tips to help you get started. For more, please see my eBook, [...]

One of the most consistently popular subject choices among photographers are flowers. In fact flower photography is also the subject of the most popular thread in our own forum. So we thought it was time to share some best practices for getting great photographs of this wonderful subject. 1) Get Closer – This is a [...]

Camera shake is a problem that almost every photographer is going to experience. Sometimes there’s just nothing you can do, but in most cases there are a few tricks you can use to get a little bit of extra stability. Here are some things you might like to think about, next time you get jolted [...]

Action photography is something that many of us will need to come to terms with at one point or another. Shooting your kids playing, friends playing sport or a great sporting event you attend are things that most of us want in our own photo collections. Getting good action shots though is not always easy [...]

The theme of landscape photography repeatedly shows up in the most popular posts on Light Stalking and if the proliferation of websites and magazines specifically about landscape is anything to go by, then it is very popular among the wider photography community too. Getting started in landscape need not be a huge exercise – there [...]

A wonderful subject that many landscape photographers go out of their way to shoot is morning mist. Given the popularity of our mist collection, as well as our fake mist Photoshop tutorial, we thought we might also cover the purists approach to capturing a good shot of mist. photo © 2007 Andy | more info [...]