How To Photograph In Harsh Lighting Conditions

In this post, you will learn how to photograph amazing images in harsh lighting conditions. When you first start using your DSLR or Mirrorless camera, you learn that dawn and dusk are prime lighting conditions for photography. However that doesn’t mean you should put your camera away in the middle of the day. Done right, […]

Photographing on Rainy Days

Photographing on rainy days can provide great opportunities to capture interesting and creative images. Don’t worry, I’m not referring to shooting in the pouring rain. What you can do is capture great pictures from indoors looking out, while it is raining. Or alternately wait for the rain to stop, then shoot through raindrops that settles […]

Color Concepts: Warm Verses Cool Color Temperatures

In photography, color concepts can vary greatly. For example, when you take photos, do you ever think about whether you want to create a warm or cool image? Take these two images below. I shot these two images one after another, yielding different results depending on how I set my camera’s color temperature. Apart from […]

How To Focus When Auto Focus Fails

It is essential to learn how to focus when your cameras AF fails. When I first started using a digital SLR camera, one of the most frustrating problems I often came across, was when my lens wouldn’t lock on to where I wanted. Instead, it would constantly move in and out. Over time, I noticed […]

The Art Of Blending Multiple Exposures

Applying the technique for blending multiple exposures doesn’t take a long learning curve. Using this photography skill will make a huge difference on many difficult lighting scenarios. During a trip to Sydney last year we discovered the perfect place for a long exposure sunrise shoot. Pre dawn the next morning we walked along Manly foreshore, […]

How To Use Exposure Compensation

This article will explain when to use your cameras exposure compensation setting. Have you ever taken a photo to find it darker or lighter than you wished it would be? Exposure compensation tells the camera that a photograph needs to be lighter or darker than the automatic calculated exposure. Some cameras have a button similar […]

10 Tips To Improve Your Photos Instantly

1. Clean The Lens Our first tip to help improve your photos may seem obvious, but when was the last time you cleaned your lens? There is no point trying to take great photos if the glass is dirty. To improve your photos, you should clean the lens each time you take your camera out […]

Photographing Sunsets with Telephoto Lens

One of my favourite ways of photographing sunsets or sunrises is to use a telephoto lens (300-400mm focal length). Shooting at longer focal lengths will give the feeling that the sun is much closer to other elements seen within the same frame. It’s best to photograph sunsets with a faster shutter speed so not to […]

How To Take Sharper Photos

Do your photos ever look grainy, blurred or not as sharp as you’d like? Here are our best tips on how to take sharper photos than you ever thought possible. Tripods If you move even in the slightest when taking a photo, your image can appear blurred due to camera shake. This is especially true when […]

Flash Tip For Good Exposure

Flash, or speed lights in photography, can help when exposing for both foreground and background elements. Have you ever taken a photograph exposing for indoor lighting, only to find that you lose all the beautiful color and detail seen through the window? This simple flash tip can eliminate that problem. You can see in the […]

Sunny 16 And Other Photo Exposure Rules

Use the sunny 16 rule on a perfectly sunny day when shooting outdoors. The sunny 16 rule is obviously more useful when shooting landscapes, as it presumes you are wanting a wide depth of field and no background blur. First set your aperture to f/16 If you set ISO 100, use a Shutter Speed of […]

Best Tips for Photographing Wildlife and Birds

Our best wildlife photography tip. Think background! It doesn’t matter what you photograph, always look at the background when first looking through your camera rear view. Make sure the background compliments and doesn’t distract from the main subject. Things to look out for are trees, branches or power lines sticking out from the head or […]