To keep your pictures free of motion blurring, you want to shorten your exposure times. But sometimes that’s just not possible. At those times you should concentrate on holding your camera right instead.

Landscape photography and panoramas are among the most popular photographic genres. But some photographers are afraid they won’t be skilled enough to join photos into a panorama. And yet it’s just a few clicks on a computer.

Diffraction, that is, the bending of light, is a problem that’s encountered by many photographers. But they often don’t even realize it. Meanwhile, diffraction can make your photos lose sharpness. And that’s something that most photographers want to avoid. So it’s good to know what causes diffraction and how to avoid it—and also how to take advantage of it.

Mysterious and impressive. That’s what you can expect from silhouettes. Taking these pictures may seem simple at first, but for an impressive final result, you have to follow a few rules. Get to know them.

Noise-filled photographs complicate every photographer’s life from time to time. Fortunately, you can reduce a photo’s noise significantly with computer edits. Take a look at how.

One prerequisite for good exposure is a good choice of aperture. The aperture affects how much light makes it through the lens and onto the camera’s sensor. And another important thing—background blurring—depends on it too.

Artificial light has one large advantage—you have it entirely under your control, and there’s nothing to hold you back from your creative goals. So learn to master flashes and continuous lights, and you’ll take your portrait photographs to the next level.

Knowing how to add text is useful for example when you want to sign a picture, or mark where you took it. And meanwhile, it’s actually a very easy job—and also one you can handle in just a few clicks.

For many photographers, taking portraits under natural light is the simplest and most common option of all. That way you don’t have to worry about equipment costs. However, you do have to take into account the characteristics of natural light and subordinate your subject’s placement and your exposure settings to these.

We’ve just about all run into ugly, distracting noise in our photos at some point. The culprit here is high ISO. It makes the sensor more light-sensitive, and this can brighten dark photos, but it also produces noise. So take a look at how to work with ISO right.