Camera Craft Articles

As photographers, it is not always possible to come up with new ideas and techniques to capture photos creatively. There are times when creative block can have a huge impact and the feeling of being stuck can be quite frustrating. In this article, we have put together a few ideas that will help you to come out of your creative block.

In photography, capturing sharp photos is very important, unless you want to intentionally capture blur or have soft focus in your images. In order to capture sharp images, you need to take care of a few settings and controls in your camera. Capturing sharp images will sometimes depend on the smallest setting that we often tend to ignore.

In this article, we have put together a list of tutorials that will help you to capture tack sharp images every time.

The relentless march of technology has very much changed what we can do with our cameras. Thirty years ago, putting an ISO 1600 film in our camera, guaranteed very grainy images. Twenty years ago, shooting digital at 3200 promised a similar grain in the form of noise. Today, I can shoot a 61 megapixel camera at 16000 ISO and get results that look significantly better than 3200 ISO on a 12 megapixel camera 20 years ago.

Before we look at that, let’s take a look at why the tripod has been such an important part of any photographer’s life.

A lot of beginners take up photography and start shooting straightaway without understanding the basics. They end up capturing snapshots, while they could have captured much better photos if they’d had a good understanding of the basics in photography. Understanding the basics when it comes to camera settings will help to make creative decisions when out in the field based on the light, and other conditions.

Here are some tutorials, that will help you to understand basic camera settings and capture better photos.

The power that we have in Lightroom and many other modern apps is astonishing. To the point where we can take a relatively dull, average composition and turn it into something incredibly striking. I say striking because it doesn’t mean the image is good. We have at our mouse buttons a plethora of tools that combined with AI masking allow us to change entirely the way an image looks.
We are, however, in danger of over reliance on over editing our images and today I want to look at why when it comes to editing, less is often more.