Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens
I purchased this lens early on in my photography experience and am glad I had a shop assistant who pointed me in the right direction. As it’s turned out, I couldn’t be more happier with the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens. Especially when it comes to photographing small objects, insects and flowers. Shown below […]
How to Sharpen Images with Photoshop
This Photoshop Tutorial will have your photographs looking tack sharp. Professional photographers use this Photoshop sharpening trick on all their images and so should you. The pros know that the images they sell have to look sharp and with a few quick steps in Photoshop, images can be greatly enhanced. Follow this quick tutorial and […]
How to Use Shadows & Highlights Adjustments Tool
Sometimes, no matter how careful you are with your DSLR setting, certain parts of a photo can look washed out and over exposed or have dark patches from shadows. This is especially true where there is a lot of white space, like a wedding dress or snow, or when taking a photo where there are […]
How to Use Photoshop S Curves
The S Curves can add or reduce contrast in the best possible way. It is like using a spotlight on a stage production, you can highlight a certain part of an image and darken another. Using the tool is quite easy and playing with the curves on an image is the best way to fully […]
How to use spot healing brush tool to remove spots & blemishes
Photoshop makes it easy to get unwanted blemishes or something that annoys you out of the picture. You will quickly find that the Spot Healing Brush Tool is one of your greatest friends when you are touching up your photographs. Remove blotches, dust spots, those annoying power lines or telegraph wires, in fact just about […]
How to Straighten Horizons with Photoshop Lens Correction Tool
Professional photographers normally set their tripods up and use a spirit level to make sure their horizons are dead straight when taking landscape photographs. This way they never have a crooked horizon. Right? Wrong. They may do that sometimes, but like most photographers everywhere, if they have a horizon tilted either left or right they use […]
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 […]
What is white balance?
How to use your digital SLR camera white balance settings – auto, custom, preset, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, flash, cloudy and shade. Setting the correct white balance in your digital SLR camera is important to ensure the objects that are white, are actually displayed white within the photograph. As you can see by the interactive example […]
Digital SLR Camera Settings – when do you need to change your ISO?
When you use your digital SLR camera in automatic modes such as portrait, landscape and sports etc, all basic settings like ISO, aperture and shutter speed are automatically made for you. However, there are times when you’ll want to override these automatic settings and choose the ISO yourself. When to use the ISO setting on a digital SLR camera If […]
Shutter speed and the difference between fast and slow shutter speeds on digital slr cameras
Wikipedia describes shutter speed as being the amount of time a digital cameras shutter is held open for when taking a photograph. Shutter speed allows light to reach the cameras image sensor. Shutter priority allows the photographer to choose a shutter speed, then the digital SLR camera automatically sets the aperture to suit. To set your digital […]
Can you turn off your digital cameras annoying shutter noise / sound?
Recently while on holiday I was taking photographs alongside my partner who was using a video camera. When we returned home and watched back the video footage, all we could hear was the click click click of my digital SLR cameras annoying shutter noise. It was then I pulled out my trusty EOS camera manual to see […]
Quick tips for turning a Nikon and Canon digital SLR camera back to original factory settings
Digital SLR cameras offer so many different settings, it’s often hard to keep track of what one’s you have changed. Any photographer who has given his digital SLR camera to another person for a day or two, will understand how hard it is to try and guess what settings were changed so it can be […]