Camera Craft Articles

There comes a point in your photographic learning curve when you realise that something is not progressing quite the way you had hoped. Often that is the creative element to your images. Sure they look good, great exposure and colour. They may be well composed but they are lacking that creative hook that many of your more experienced photographers are demonstrating. In short, you are taking photos not seeing them.

Dynamic range can be a confusing term especially if you are a beginner in photography and one that is also not greatly understood by many photographers. In this article, we have put together some resources that will help you to understand dynamic range and improve your photography.

The world around us is in constant change. Cities, towns, even the rural landscape are in a state of constant change. That change is imperceptible on a day to day basis but over the months and years, it can and often is quite dramatic. As photographers, often without even knowing it, we are capturing history. Today we are going to look at the importance of photographing places as they change.

When capturing photos at night, we have to rely on artificial lights from the city or town – this could be the lights from buildings, street lamps, shops, etc., or natural light from the moon if it is more than 50 or 60% illuminated. In this article, we have put together a few resources that will give you ideas on what and how to photograph at night.

There are no rules in photography, only guidelines – but, there are times when we photographers may need a quick reference or a setting to capture something on the field. For example, capturing a landscape, photograph the moon, starting to photograph the night sky, especially the milky way, or setting out in street photography.