SLR Photography Guide

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 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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

No matter what camera brand or model you photograph with, all the best portrait lenses 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. For weddings and […]

How do I photograph animals? This 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 subjects a beginner […]

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 […]