Our Best Macro Photography Tips. Shown below is a set of ten amazing macro images with macro photography tips for the relevant image. Each photograph also includes an explanation of the camera equipment that was used and camera settings. Many of the images below have been taken with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens, the settings […]
Macro Photography Tips
How To Photograph Cascading Water
How to take slow water shots When you photograph cascading water in rivers and creeks, it’s a lot of fun and the resulting images can be absolutely amazing. Yet you do need to be careful with swollen rivers and above all keep yourself and your expensive equipment safe. Listed below are our best photography tips […]
How To Focus For Landscapes
How To Focus For Landscapes A beginner photographer asked me recently, “How or where do I focus for landscapes and what exactly does it mean when someone says ‘focus one third into the scene’? To be honest it’s something I’d wrongly presumed everyone understood how to do. When photographers shoot typical landscapes Generally landscape photographers […]
Best Aperture Setting For Portraits
Choosing Best Aperture Setting for Portraits When considering the best aperture setting for portraits, keeping it simple will deliver better results. Generally speaking, portrait photographers want to isolate the person and nicely blur the background. Unless you are shooting a holiday snapshot, the background is normally unimportant. Therefore that’s what I’ll focus on in this […]
How To Photograph People Jumping
Photograph People Jumping How do I photograph people jumping and get a sharp image? We often get this question via email or on our Facebook page. Photographing sharp images of people jumping isn’t as hard as it seems if you follow these few simple rules. In this tutorial I’ll show you my best tips for […]
How To Shoot Fast Action Shots
How to photograph fast action shots Here are my best tips to shoot fast action shots, like the image of a go-cart racer shown below. Don’t let this photo fool you, this kid was flying! To capture images like this that seem frozen in a split second, you need to understand the basics of shutter […]
Wedding Photography Tips for Amateurs
Wedding Photography Tips Here it is. Our best wedding photography tips for all those photographers who are eventually asked to photograph their friends or family wedding day. No doubt if you own a digital SLR camera the day will come when you are asked to photograph your first wedding. For amateur photographers this can be […]
When To Use Spot Metering
Setting Spot Metering Spot metering is just one of your camera’s metering systems. To achieve perfect exposures you need to understand each of your cameras metering system and how each one is used. By default, your cameras metering is most likely set to matrix (also referred to as pattern or evaluative on some models). For […]
Photographing Clouds and Skies
Practice Photographing Clouds and Skies I learned today why it’s quite important to go photographing clouds and skies. It’s really useful to grow a collection of clouds and skies just in case the elements don’t fall in your favor. You know the scenario, perfect subject, perfect lighting, drab cloudless sky! A couple of weeks back […]
How To Photograph Waterfalls and Streams
How to Photograph Waterfalls The technique for how to photograph waterfalls, and that for streams, is very similar for each. One of the most popular methods is to slow down water movement so it looks smooth and milky, like the image shown below. The secret to these types of shots is to set a long […]
How To Photograph Moving Objects
Photograph Moving Objects Ok, you want to know how to photograph moving objects now you’ve grasped the idea of how to take a good photo with your digital SLR camera. Whether you are photographing an object such as moving water, a car driving past you, a person, child or animal, the camera technique and settings […]
How To Use Partial Metering
Partial Metering Partial metering is one of four modes found mostly on Canon cameras to help measure a subject’s brightness. This enables the photographer to take a correct exposure depending on the lighting conditions at hand. Spot metering on Nikon cameras work very similar to partial metering on Canon cameras. However for Canon users, some […]
Photograph Car Light Trails Slow Shutter Speed
How To Photograph Car Light Trails The secret to taking a fantastic photograph car light trails, is setting your digital camera on shutter priority with a slow 30 second shutter speed or more. Set your digital SLR camera to shutter priority. This is important for all night photography. Shutter priority allows you to set a […]
How To Choose The Correct ISO Setting
Choosing Correct ISO Setting Learning correct ISO setting isn’t hard. In fact ISO is one of the easiest camera settings to learn. The main reason for changing the ISO setting is to enable photographers to shoot images quicker. The faster your camera ISO, the faster your shutter speed and the sharper your images will be. […]
How to Photograph Lightning and Storms
Learn how to photograph lightning by Vince Havens I’d like to share how I photograph lightning and storms. People who see me out photographing lightning, as well as those who see the photos, always say the same thing, “you must have a very fast camera.” I often laugh. Yes I have a fast camera. My […]
Bird Photography for Beginners
Bird Photography Tips for Beginners Bird photography is no doubt one of the most popular genres amongst nature photographers. I recently took a road trip where I came across a lagoon full of wildlife. Hundreds of birds were ducking and diving into the water to score themselves a feed of fish. Ah, the perfect place […]
What Is The Best Portrait Lens
Best Portrait Lens No matter what camera brand or model you photograph with, all the best portrait lens have several things in common. For starters, a good portrait lens should open as wide as aperture f/1.8 or less. Many of the best portraits are candid shots when people think the cameras focus is off them. […]
How to Photograph Animals
How do I photograph animals? How to photograph animals is often one of the first questions beginner photographers want to know. Most people have pets or birds in their backyard, so there is no need to venture too far from home to find a suitable animal to photograph. This makes animals one of the best […]
How I took a macro photo of a water droplet
One of the main advantages of using a digital SLR camera, is that you can focus on a subject directly through a sheet of glass. This is exactly what I did to capture the macro image of a water droplet as shown below. Macro Water Drop Digital SLR Camera: Canon EOS 400D / Rebel XTi DSLR […]
Auto focus AF trouble shooting – Why doesn’t my camera auto focus work?
When I first started using a digital SLR camera, one of the most frustrating problems I often came across, was when my DSLR lens wouldn’t focus properly. Instead, it would constantly move in and out, not stopping to focus on any particular object. Over time, I noticed a pattern to this annoying problem. Listed below […]