Our best macro photography tips. Shown below is a set of ten amazing macro photographs. Each photograph includes an explanation of the camera equipment that was used and tips on how it was taken. Many of the images below have been taken with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens, the settings can be reproduced with any […]
Macro Photography Tips
How To Photograph Cascading Water
How to take slow water shots. River and creek photography is fun and the results 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 for those wanting to capture smooth slow motion water […]
How To Focus For Landscapes
How do I focus for landscape photography and what exactly does it mean when someone says ‘focus one third into the scene’? This is a question a beginner photographer asked me recently and to be honest it’s something I’d wrongly presumed everyone understood how to do. When photographers shoot typical landscapes, they are generally wanting […]
Best Aperture Setting For Portraits
Generally speaking when shooting portraits, 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 post. Quick Formula Rules If I’m photographing one person I use the lowest aperture number my lens will allow, […]
How To Photograph People Jumping
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 capturing jumps without the use of a flash. Here is an example image shown below that I photographed a couple of months back of a friend […]
How To Shoot Fast Action Shots
Here are my best tips for shooting 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 speed, aperture and ISO. Manipulating any […]
Wedding Photography Tips for Amateurs
Here it is, our best wedding photography tips for all those photographers who sooner or later are 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 a […]
When To Use Spot Metering
To achieve perfect exposures you need to understand your cameras metering system. By default, your cameras metering is most likely set to matrix (also referred to as pattern or evaluative on some models). For the most part, this default setting does a great job exposing for different lighting conditions. Personally I find 95% of the […]
Photographing Clouds and Skies
I learned today why every photographer should have a great collection of cloud and sky images. You know the scenario, perfect subject, perfect lighting, drab cloudless sky! A couple of weeks back I did a commercial fashion shoot. It was late in the evening and the sun was starting to quickly fade. It had been […]
How To Photograph Waterfalls and Streams
The technique for photographing waterfalls and streams are very similar. One of the most popular methods is to slow down water movement so it looks smooth and silky, like the image shown below. The secret to these types of shots is to set a long exposure. You determine how long the exposure is by setting […]
How To Photograph Moving Objects
Ok so you’ve grasped the idea of how to take a good photo with your digital SLR camera, and now want to know how to photograph moving objects. Whether you are photographing an object such as moving water or a car driving past you, or a subject as in a person, child or animal, the […]
How To Use Partial Metering
Partial metering is one of four modes found mostly on Canon cameras to help measure a subject’s brightness, enabling the photographer to take a correct exposure. Spot metering on Nikon cameras work very similar to partial metering on Canon cameras. However for Canon users, some models come with both spot and partial metering modes. What […]
Photograph Car Light Trails Slow Shutter Speed
The secret to taking fantastic photographs of 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 slow shutter speed so enough light […]
How To Choose The Correct ISO Setting
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. There is less chance of unwanted blur due to camera shake, and […]
How to Photograph Lightning and Storms
Learn how to photograph lightning by Vince Havens 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 camera’s highest shutter speed is 1/8000th of a second. But […]
Bird Photography 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 to spend several hours at […]
What Is The Best Portrait Lens
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 to Photograph Animals
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 […]
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 […]