A lot of amateur photographers find it difficult to zero in on the best travel photography lens for their vacations. Most amateur photographers feel they should pack everything they own. There can be many arguments against this kind of thinking. Off late airlines have put in a lot of restrictions in terms of baggage limits. Which means, that in all probability you would be carrying your photography gear as your cabin baggage. That is unless you want to entrust your gear, worth thousands of dollars, in the hands of some individual who makes a career out of chucking fragile equipment 10 feet away. Read more...
Let me start by congratulating you. Why? You may ask. The fact that you are here looking for some information on how to decide on a second lens proves that you have finally outgrown the kit lens that came along with your camera. You have come to the conclusion that there is no way you can continue to grow as a photographer with just the kit lens. You are looking to take your photography to the next level - you are looking to invest in a new lens. Read more...
This article is meant for photographers who want to learn how to use an external flash in outdoor shooting situation. Shooting outdoors in natural light can be a challenge depending upon your understanding of the nature of light. I know most of you are aware how amazing golden hour light can be. This warm soothing light is perfect for a number of photography genres. You can shoot wedding, engagements, casual portraits, architecture photos and much much more during this magical time of the day. Fast forward another 30 minutes or so and the potential of the blue hour isn’t that inconspicuous either. Read more...
Often, amateur landscape photographers tend to have lots of issues trying to balance an exposure in a scene where there is a lot of difference in ambient lighting across the frame. Let's say a sunset or a sunrise scene where the sky is extremely bright and the foreground is extremely dark. Exposing for one clips details in the other. Then there is the mid-afternoon harsh light. Ever thought about using long exposure under the mid-day sun? ND filters, allow you to do all of these and more. Let's look at the many uses of ND filters. Read more...
Today’s digital SLR cameras are extremely versatile. They are ideally suitable for not only great quality stills, but also extremely useful for capturing family get together, vacations and any other social events that you may be called to shoot at. The fact that they are capable of shooting in full HD and being able to be used with a multitude of lenses means you can use these cameras for shooting professional quality footages for commercial and other uses as well.
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A question that most amateur DSLR users seem to ask is what is the correct use of the pop-up flash on their camera? The pop-up flash, as you know, is the one that springs into position when you push that tiny lightning marker at the top of your camera. This tiny flash fires an intense beam of light that illuminates subjects that are within a distance of 10-15’. However a major problem with the pop-up flash is that they are difficult to control and to focus with pin point accuracy. Thus most professionals and senior photographers prefer not to use this flash. Read more...
Digital interchangeable lens cameras are the preferred choice for shooting professional quality images. Five years ago and I would have used the term Digital Single Lens Reflex camera. But things have changed in the last few years or so. Mirrorless cameras have come on to the market in a big way and that has changed the perspective of camera buyers.
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The optical piece of equipment that sits in front of your camera is the single most important piece of gear that you own. It’s actually more important than the one that it attaches to – the camera. Ask 10 professional photographers what to do with the extra bit of cash that you have, after buying a camera and a kit lens and 9 out of them would suggest you to get a better piece of glass. The tenth one will suggest you sell off the kit lens to get a better lens! Read more...
Call it our ignorance or plain laziness, we hardly make the research to find out more about a camera before actually buying it. We hardly ask someone knowledgeable before making a decision either. The result is that we end up with a camera that we hate after a while, either because it has too many features than we ever need or has too few.
To make it worse, we sometimes are guilty of asking all sorts of wrong questions to the salesman at the store. Hopefully, after having read the following paragraphs, you will not ask these meaningless questions when buying your camera. Read more...
People more or less start the same way. Someone somewhere loves us dearly enough so as to send us a camera for Christmas gift. Some of us may have even inherited it from their granddad or maternal uncle. Regardless, of the origin a camera arrives in our lives. That’s the ‘Allspark’ that we needed. Life never remains the same after that seemingly inert incident. We end up getting hooked to our camera and to photography for the rest of our best days. Read more...
A lot of amateur photographers find it difficult to zero in on the best travel photography lens for their vacations. Most amateur photographers feel they should pack everything they own. There can be many arguments against this kind of thinking. Off late airlines have put in a lot of restrictions in terms of baggage limits. Which means, that in all probability you would be carrying your photography gear as your cabin baggage. That is unless you want to entrust your gear, worth thousands of dollars, in the hands of some individual who makes a career out of chucking fragile equipment 10 feet away. Read more... 
