Digital SLR Photography Tips

All DSLR photography tips listed below are useful for photographers who shoot with SLR or DSLR camera's. The examples in particular, demonstrate camera settings and techniques, many of which may be available on point and click camera's as well.

• Exposure tips for nature photography - Basic DSLR techniques that changed my photography ten fold.
  
  
• How to focus to infinity - A technique that's important for landscape photography.
  
  
• How to photograph Christmas lights - Camera settings for Christmas lights is always a favorite during the holiday season.
  
  
• How to photograph sunsets - Landscape photography tip including DSLR camera settings and exposure techniques for photographing sunsets.
  
  
• Beach photography tips - Several useful ideas for photographing the beach with a DSLR camera.
  
  
• Smoke photography - How to photograph smoke art with example photos.
  
  
• Good reasons for using a lens hood
  
  
• How to crop photographs of animals on the move - While this one is more a post production tip, you can train yourself as a photographer to think about such things while shooting the photograph. Saves a lot of time editing the photograph later on.
  
  
• Where to position the horizon line within a landscape photo
  
  
• Wildlife and animal photography tip
  
  
• Using a zoom lens for macro and closeup photography of bugs and flowers. Explains why a zoom lens can be an effective alternative to a macro lens.
  
  
• Difference between bokeh and DOF - SLR tips explaining 'What is bokeh and how to achieve a nice depth of field'.
  
  
• How to photograph dragonflies - While these DSLR photography tips refer to dragonflies, they could be used when photographing any insect.
  
  
• Photographing different perspectives and angles
  
  
• Tips for photographing flying insects - Examples show you how to photograph butterflies and bees.
  
  
• Photograph bold vivid colors - Photographing bold vivid colors will attract more attention than a well focused image.
  
  
• How to photograph flowers in windy conditions - DSLR tips with examples images of flowers that were shot in windy conditions and how they were taken.
  
  
• Big head people and animal photo fun - How to photograph people and animals so they look disproportioned.
  
  
• How to photograph water reflections - Camera settings and exposure tips for photographing water reflections. Two examples of reflections and how they were photographed.
  
  
• Advantages of continuous mode for sharp images of children, animals and insects
  
  
• Composition tips for capturing small details in a photograph
  
  
• Turn off your lens vibration reduction (VR for Nikon) or image stabalization (IS for Canon) for sharper photographs - DSLR photography tips on when to use VR and IS. Also discusses when you should turn them off.
  
  
• How to photograph flying birds - Example images demonstrating both fast and slow shutter speeds.
  
  
• Photographing car light trails - How to use a slow shutter speed to photograph car light trails.
  
  
• Dog photography tips - Camera settings and composition tips for photographing family pets.
  
  
• Tips for photographing silhouette's - General DSLR tips and camera settings, also includes an example of a silhouette and explains how it was taken.
  
  
• Aquarium photography - SLR photography tips and camera settings for taking good photographs in dark aquariums.
  
  

Other DSLR photography tips can be found over on our blog including:

• Zoo Photography - SLR photography tips for taking good photographs at the zoo.
  
  
• Photographing flowers with a telephoto lens (blog post) you don't need a dedicated macro lens to acheive a nice background blur when photographing flowers.
  
  
• How to photograph seagulls (blog post) - tips for taking interesting photographs of seagulls.
  
  
• Portrait photography tips for outside daytime shots
  
  
• Baby photography tips
  
  
• Rick Sammon - Top ten digital photography tips
  
  
• Tips for photographing sunrises
  
  
• Best time of day for insect macro photography
  
  
• Macro photography with telephoto lens
  
  
• Pure white backgrounds