While Autofocus may take care of most of your focusing worries when you are photographing, there are situations when manual focus can come in handy. Sometimes manual focus is a much quicker way to accomplish perfect focusing. From macro photography to low-light-light photography, manual focus will be a tool you will use often.
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How to use your camera to its (and your) potential.
There are four main factors that affect how a camera’s metering system will deem an exposure ‘correct’. These are – light, aperture, time, and sensitivity. With a better understanding of these four factors, mastering exposure in your photographs becomes much easier.
Sometimes, it can be quite uncanny just how accurately our camera meters are at getting the right exposure. The technology is highly sophisticated, advanced sensors, complex calculations and large image databases combine to give stunning results. But not always.
There is something about silhouettes that makes you want to rush out and create one yourself. They have that dramatic atmosphere that always keeps a photograph interesting. The ability to create silhouettes becomes a natural habit when taking photos of sunsets becomes a regular part of your routine (as it does for most outdoor photographers. […]
If there is one setting inside your camera that allows for photographing a wide range of amazing effects in your images, it has to be the shutter speed. From freezing action using a fast shutter speed to capturing motion using a slow shutter speed, it provides numerous possibilities for you to explore. Agreed that aperture […]
Those of you that have recently joined the mass ranks of photographic enthusiasts will, most probably, not have thought too much about the way you camera is set up. After all, the image quality you are getting is already great so why mess around and ruin all that? Well the answer is simple, the image […]
