Photography

With SLR cameras and interchangeable lenses, you have a wide range of possibilities for setting the aperture of your lens, along with the lighting, sensor sensitivity and shutter speed. When I’m taking most of my photographs, I use my aperture-priority setting so that I don’t have to worry about the shutter speed, and I...
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The rise in the popularity of digital photography has resulted in a sharing of photographic work on a scale never seen before. Before the internet, photography was really just limited to the sharing family albums with close friends and family, and mainstream media photography as seen in the press. Photography as art was not...
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Creating nude portraits has long been an element of art – instead of capturing these portraits with the brush on canvas; today they are captured with the pixel. Since the invention of photography the naked human body has been a natural subject for photographers and there has always been a large audience there for...
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Here are some simple tips for photographing babies. Babies can be the most challenging and rewarding portraits to take, but can also be the most frustrating. Babies tend to sleep, eat and cry a lot and won’t pose in front of the camera but don’t let that put you off photographing them. Creating the...
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The world of photography is an amazing one. It’s been with us for quite a while now but it is constantly changing. Cameras are changing and improving. Methods of developing are changing and improving as well. We have digital cameras that allow people to take a view of their pictures immediately without traditional developing....
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By Dora Wysocki A Top Competitor The Canon PowerShot Digital Camera series offers 23 different cameras with features ranging from professional SLR quality to one of the easiest to use point-and-shoot cameras available. The PowerShot digital camera series last year helped push Canon into second place, behind Kodak and ahead of Sony, in the...
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By Bruce Whittaker So you’ve booked your once in a lifetime safari trip to Africa and now your thoughts turn towards photographing all the wildlife you are going to encounter on your adventure. It would be a great shame to come across your first African pride of lions and not have some decent pictures...
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A photographic lens (also known as objective lens or photographic objective) is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to make images of objects either on photographic film or on other media capable of storing an image chemically or electronically. While in principle a simple...
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By David Peters There are many things that make a great photograph but one of the most important elements of a good photo is composition. Composition has to do with the placement of the subject and objects in a photograph and how these various elements interact together. Good composition is really what sets apart...
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By: David Peters Do you have old photographs that are faded, worn out, crinkled or even torn? Of course you do, everyone does. Many of these photos are likely very old family photographs that are simply irreplaceable should something happen to them. In the past it was very expensive and time consuming to have...
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