You may have heard professionals talking about the right focal length and how choosing anything less than the ideal length can adversely affect the background of your photos. Now, why does the wrong focal length affect your background? To understand this we need to first have an understanding of what each of the focal lengths tend to do.
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Summer in India is legendary for all the wrong reasons. So much so that there is actually a phrase “Indian summer.” I, like every other staunch Indian is never too perturbed about summer. Inside, though, I long for an escape to the cool breeze of the sea or the lower Himalayas for a week’s holiday. But taking a week’s break at this time of the year, is unimaginable. So, I do the next best thing- a short and sweet weekend trip. It just happens to be that I just came back from one such weekendbreak. 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...
If you look at the main aspects that govern exposure, you would obviously realize that there are three. Three pillars unto which all exposure constructions are resting. The number three is auspicious, in religion as in photography. It is also pertinent to mention here that the number three is a recurring phenomenon in photography. Today, however, we are concerned with one of these pillars that are fundamental to all photography – ISO. Read more...
A lot of digital photographers make this cardinal mistake when they work on their portfolios. They try to accommodate anything and everything that they have been shooting into one single portfolio, be it a book or a website. Though I am not the one to put some sort of a creative shackle on you, I am going to make one remark though; and that is don’t do this. Read more...
One of the things that photographers are guilty of and I am referring to both amateurs and enthusiasts is that they don’t print often. Back in the days of film, the only way photographers could ever see their work is if they carried the spools of film back to a film processing lab and had the film developed and printed. Then came digital and the old habit of shooting and making the distance to the development lab became no longer necessary. Images were only shot to be shared and promulgated over the internet or other electronic formats. Read more...
A question often asked by entry level protogs is how much to charge for their services. Many find it difficult to assess their own value, a major constraint in the path of a promising career. The problem is more often than not beginner professional photographers don’t know how much is an accurate estimation of the value that they bring on to the table. Read more...
Ethical post processing is a fine line that every photographer has to keep in mind when working on their imagery. With so much Photoshop being used it is difficult to come across an image that has not been digitally altered somehow. Having said that, a degree of post-processing is inevitable because images are not always meant to be printed and nailed to a wall. Even then a bit of post-processing would ensure that the images are close to what the photographer envisioned at the time of pressing the shutter release. Read more...
I would say landscape photography is the most underestimated genres of photography. Budding photographersoften think there is nothing really to it and anyone with a decent enough camera can produce great landscape images. Well just as every cat has its day, a great camera will surely get it right some of the time. But for consistent results you cannot simply leave everything to the camera.To make great landscape imagery you will need meticulous preparations and a deep understanding of the basics of exposure. Read more...
You may have heard professionals talking about the right focal length and how choosing anything less than the ideal length can adversely affect the background of your photos. Now, why does the wrong focal length affect your background? To understand this we need to first have an understanding of what each of the focal lengths tend to do.
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