You may have noticed that all subjects, especially light ones like snow, pick up a color cast from surrounding light. This is the reason why photos of snow taken in daylight under a blue sky often have a blue tinge. One of the simplest ways to avoid the blue tinge and correct this is to […]
Author: Tanya Puntti
Camera Software Install
Why you should install company camera software even if you have Adobe. New or beginner photographers are often unaware that DSLR cameras come ready packaged with editing software! This is especially true for all leading camera brands such as Canon or Nikon. If yours didn’t come with a DVD full of goodies, or you purchased […]
How to Keep Detail In Highlights
If a photograph is overexposed there will be no detail in highlights. An overexposed image is harder to save (if at all) than an underexposed shot. If highlights are blown out at the time of exposure, they will not hold any detail that is recoverable in post processing. There is usually nothing you can do […]
Keep Camera Lens on Auto Focus for Sharper Images
Make sharper shots using auto focus. One of the biggest mistakes I see beginner photographers make when first starting out, is to presume a lens manual focus is better than auto focus. The truth is, focusing with auto focus lenses has never been so simple! Half press your shutter button with your lens set to […]
Flash Tips For Macro Photography
You can make photography journey much easier by following this one simple macro photography tip. Use your cameras’ flash function or better still a speed light, ring flash or twin light setup, to obtain a fast shutter speed. Those who use a dedicated macro lens for macro photography will understand how hard it is to […]
10 Essential Tips for Macro Photography
We start with our very best essential tips. Apply the following tips and your macro photos will improve, which in turn will give you so much more enjoyment and satisfaction in this very hard photography genre. Aperture. Just because your dedicated macro lens goes down to F/2.8 doesn’t mean you need set it at F/2.8. […]
Pixel Peeping – Why You Shouldn’t Do It
What is pixel peeping? Below is the answer to a question I receive many times a week. The Question: “I keep getting frustrated when I blow my images up to 1:1 and see they are not as sharp as I’d like” Sound familiar? This is a question I receive often from beginners who are misinterpreting […]
Quick Fix Common Exposure Problems
Each week we receive emails from beginners with exposure problems, saying their images are either too dark or completely washed out. Ninety nine percent of the time “Exposure Bias” is to blame. The quickest fix for this problem of course is to reset your camera back to factory default settings (check manual guide). This will […]
Advantages of a Telephoto Lens
Telephoto lens, such as a 70-200 mm, not only makes your main subject appear much larger in the frame. A telephoto lens also helps foreground and background elements appear much closer together. Or rather compresses the foreground and background together. Take the giraffe image below for example. This image was taken at Taronga Zoo in […]
How to Edit Macro Photographs
I am quite often asked how I edit macro photographs? What editing or post production work do I make on my macro images? Most of these types of questions come from those who use the same camera and macro lens as I own. Although the post production tips listed below will assist all macro photographers […]
Zoo Photography Tips
Over the last couple of years, my partner and I have visited numerous zoos and taken hundreds of photographs of zoo animals. Although the photographs during these years were taken with different DSLR camera’s, including a Nikon D40, Canon 400D, Canon 5D and a Canon 5D Mark 11, the basic techniques for photographing zoo animals […]
What Does EOS Mean on a Canon Digital SLR Camera?
Anyone who has been researching Canon digital SLR cameras, will have noticed many of their names have the letters EOS attached to them. For example, EOS 30D, EOS 1D Mark lll, EOS Rebel etc. But what does EOS mean exactly? Some rumors have it that Canon originally named these cameras after the goddess of ‘dawn’ […]