From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Fashion photography, how to photograph fashion models

What’s involved with photographing fashion models? The equipment used to photograph fashion models, isn’t that different to portrait photography. Fashion photography equipment should include: A backdrop that needs to be placed behind the model. In the demonstration shown below, the photographer used a metalic sheet, however a simple material sheet would have also been sufficient. A studio flash with [...]

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How to photograph seagulls

Photographing seagulls Living near the ocean, one of the first birds I tried to photograph after buying a digital SLR camera, was a seagull. Like most photographers, I aimed my camera at a bird flying overhead and continuously pressed the shutter button, hoping for the best. Using this method of photography did work from time [...]

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Change digital SLR camera lens quickly easily

A technique for changing your digital SLR camera lens quickly and easily, when out in the field. Personally, I used to have a rather odd technique for changing a camera lens when out and about in the field. The technique involved tightly holding one lens under my chin while I took the other off the camera’s [...]

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Nikon D300 video review

Nikon D300 digital SLR camera review The Nikon D300 is a semi-professional SLR camera for the serious amateur. The quality and price range is somewhere between the cheap entry level camera’s (Nikon D40x) and the more expensive professional models like D2Hs or D2Xs. For a Nikon D300 you can expect to pay around $1800 for [...]

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Flowers with background blur telephoto zoom lens

How to photograph flowers with background blur. In contrast to popular belief, you don’t necessarily need a dedicated macro lens to achieve a nice background blur when photographing flowers. It can just as easily be achieved with a telephoto zoom lens.

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