Camera Craft Articles

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.

Many of us enjoy taking photographs in the urban environment. Classic iconic buildings, monuments, infrastructure, they all make excellent subjects for our lenses.

There is an issue though. The space in cities is often tight. Buildings close together, busy streets, street furniture, often mean that we struggle to get good shots. Even when we can get the shot, we often run into one of the more frustrating elements of photography, converging verticals. Today we are going to look at several ways that you can either avoid them, or correct them in editing.

Dynamic range is something that landscape photographers struggle with most of the time and it is the contrast between the brightest and darkest areas in a frame. The amount of dynamic range depends on the difference in contrast of light in the scene. For example, sunset shots or midday shots will have a huge dynamic range between the darkest and lightest parts of the frame.

If photographers follow some tips and are careful in choosing the right shooting process, issues with dynamic range can be overcome and improved in the resulting images. There are various ways in which dynamic range can be improved in images and we have put together a few resources that will help!

In order to use light correctly and make the right choice of camera settings, one needs to understand how the three elements aperture, shutter speed and iso work together. Making changes to one or more of these values for a given exposure means you need to make changes to one or more of the other values to get the same exposure. Besides, adjusting aperture and shutter speed in different ways can help to capture different types of photographs.
Here are some advanced tutorials to help you understand these factors better and use them creatively for photography.