• Understanding SLR camera settings
• Tips for taking better photographs
• SLR tips for beginners

Digital SLR Photography Tips

The tips listed below are specifically helpful for those photographers that use SLR or DSLR camera's. The examples in particular, demonstrate camera settings and techniques, many of which may not be available on basic point and click camera's.

• Exposure tips for nature photography
  
  
• How to focus to infinity
  
  
• How to photograph Christmas lights
  
  
• How to photograph sunsets
  
  
• Beach photography tips
  
  
• Smoke photography - how to photograph smoke art
  
  
• Good reasons for using a lens hood
  
  
• How to crop photographs of animals on the move
  
  
• 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. What is bokeh and tips for achieving it.
  
  
• How to photograph dragonflies
  
  
• Photographing different perspectives and angles
  
  
• Tips for photographing flying insects - Examples show you how to photograph butterflies and bee's.
  
  
• Photograph bold vivid colors - Photographing bold vivid colors will attract more attention than a well focused image.
  
  
• How to photograph flowers in windy conditions - Examples 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 - Tips on when to use VR and IS. Also discusses when you should turn them off.
  
  
• How to photograph flying birds
  
  
• 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 tips and camera settings, also includes an example of a silhouette and explains how it was taken.
  
  
• Aquarium photography - Tips and SLR settings for taking good photographs in dark aquariums.
  
  

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• 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