From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Macro photography with telephoto lens

Introduction to shooting macro’s or closeups with a telephoto lens

While not all photographers own a real macro lens, most do have a telephoto lens. By telephoto lens, I am referring to one has a 200 or 300mm focal lenth. Hard core macro photographers often refer to these types of shots as being closeups and not true macro’s. However, it’s hard to [...]

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Baby photography tips, how to photograph your baby

Baby photography tips

Professional photographer and mom Tracey Clark, shows you how to create treasured baby photo’s you’ll want to keep and show off to all your friends and family. Her top tips for photographing babies include:

Take lots of photographs. More than you normally would in any other photo shoot. This gives you a greater chance of getting that [...]

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Tips for photographing sunrises

How to photograph perfect sunrises. Nature photographer Rick Sammon, shares with us his best tips for photographing sunrises. Includes camera settings and composition tips.

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Best time of day for macro insect photography

Find out the best time of the day for taking macro photographs of insects and why. What hours will give you the best chance of photographing them settled still and not moving around. Also find out what time of the day is best for colorful macro shots.

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How to edit macro photographs post production tips

Post production tips for macro photographers who edit their images with Photoshop
One question I’m asked on a weekly basis is: What editing or post production work do you make on your macro photographs?
While most of these types of questions come from those who use the same camera and macro lens as I own, the post production tips [...]

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Digital camera photographer of the year winners announced

Digital Camera photographer of the year 2007
The winners have been announced for Digital Camera Magazine’s annual photo competition, where photographers competed for the title of Photographer Of The Year 2007 and prize money of £15,000.
For those that enjoy submitting their work to photography competitions, it’s useful to view past winners, taking note especially of judges comments so you can [...]

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Free photoshop actions for photographers

Hundreds of free Photoshop actions for photographers including black and white, scorching sunsets, portrait and wedding action sets, infrared, lomo, airbrushing, color boosting, vintage, contrast, vignetting, dodging and burning, bluring effects and many others. Also included, a video tutorial on how to install and use Photoshop actions.

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Top ten digital photography tips by Rick Sammon

Photography tips for beginners by Rick Sammon
Rick Sammon shares with us ten of his top photography tips for beginners and amatuer photographers. Rick Sammon is a famous nature and travel photographer who has published 27 books and writes for 3 photography magazines including PC Photo, Outdoor Photographer and Layers magazine.

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macro photography tips with example photographs and images

Macro photography tips with example photographs. Shown here is a set of 10 amazing macro photographs. Each photograph includes an explanation of the camera equipment that was used and tips on how it was taken. While many of the images have been taken with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens, the settings can be reproduced with any macro lens.

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Difference between macro micro and close up photography

What is the difference between macro, micro and closeup photography?

There is often much confusion amongst new photographers over the terms macro, micro and close up photography and how they differ. For starters, macro and micro usually refers to the same thing, in that Nikon names their range of ‘macro lenses’ with the word ’micro’. Canon on the other hand, calls [...]

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Portrait photography tips outside daytime portraits

Tips for photographing portraits outside during the daytime
One of the biggest gripes of photographers shooting portraits outside during the daytime, is that photo’s often turn out with a perfectly exposed background or skyline, yet the person they are photographing are too dark or underexposed.
Take the image below for example. The camera has adjusted the exposure [...]

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Steve Parish famous wildlife nature photographer

Inspirational wildlife and nature photographer Steve Parish
It was great to see wildlife / nature photographer Steve Parish honoured in the 2008 Australia Day awards recently. I remember the first time I’d seen Steve’s photography was when my children were younger and their school used many of his published books to teach them about animals and their wildlife [...]

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