Camera Craft Articles

I was 50 years old when I bought my first drone. It required me to learn a whole new set of skills not only in flying and navigating a UAV but also in learning new photographic and video techniques for my eye in the sky. That was 2017 and last month I was 58 years […]

Do you remember your first camera? I certainly do. It was a Soviet built Zenit 11 and like most things Soviet, it was built like a tank. The thing is though, I can still clearly remember everything about my first days with that camera. As clear as day.

Photographers are not perfect all the time – even the most experienced or professional photographers are prone to making mistakes at times. Making mistakes in photography is not a huge problem, as long as the photographer learns from the mistake and rectifies the errors in the future. Besides, not all mistakes are mistakes as some mistakes can also lead to creative results or learning new techniques in photography.
In this article, we have put together a bunch of resources that we hope will help you to avoid some common mistakes in photography.

At the end of 2024, I had a brief but cathartic flirtation with film photography again. There was a very personal reason for this, when my father passed away, he left an old Minolta X300. This was the same camera model that I had used in my early days of photography.
I had shot film before, however, it has been at least 20 years since I had shot a roll of film, and so this is more about what I had forgotten than new things that I learned.

Long exposure photography can be applied to many genre of photography besides the landscape photography where this technique is more commonly used. In this article, we have put together a bunch of tutorials for you to get an understanding of long exposure photography and improve your skills.

If as a beginner you are making lots of mistakes, then the chances are you are shooting often and learning lots. Today we are going to look at why you should embrace your photography fails.