Learn the basics or become even better. Clear advice, straight from photographers.
Mastering Your Camera
0 This time around, we’ll be showing you a simple trick. Or more precisely, some settings changes that will make your DSLR more effective. And a feature that you can use to get your camera maintaining focus nonstop. The trick? Just move the job of focusing away from the trigger and onto a button on the…
Composition
0 Practically everybody out there is taking at least a few pictures these days, no matter whether it’s with a camera, a cell phone, a tablet, or another device. These photos are then pouring onto our social networks. And the people in them are carefully tagged, and yet meanwhile they’re often also robbed of their ankles or hair, or have stop signs, tree branches, etc. growing from their heads. These are all basic composition mistakes. And today I’ll help make sure you never have to make them again.
Beginner Tips
0 With a smart choice of exposure time and camera settings, you can give photos a bit more of yourself, and make your pictures flavorful and exceptional. Gone are the days when photos had to be perfectly sharp.
Beginner Tips
0 Beginners’ mistakes are free. (Well, psychologically at least.) But you should still learn from them—even more than from your successes. And sometimes you can learn about them before they happen. So let’s take a look at photographers’ most common mistakes.
Beginner Tips
0 Photography is literally painting with light, and so no photo can come from a scene where there’s no light at all. And even low-light sites have a problem: poor exposure. What can we do to get good pictures out of bad light?
Mastering Your Camera
0 Cell phones have one major advantage compared to cameras: they are always by your side. But cell phone photography has disadvantages too. Yes, we mean poor technical quality… but we also mean the way they make you think (or forget to think).
Composition
0 Why use a square crop on your photos? The answer isn’t simple, but it’s not complicated either. A square format just has an irreplaceable magic all its own, and it also usually brings back memories of photos past. 1) You Can Improve Pictures’ Composition Good composition is the foundation of every photograph, and combined with…
Composition
0 Image composition is a critical element that can elevate—or deflate—the value of your photographs. Thus it’s something that you should never underestimate.
Beginner Tips
0 I have always wanted to “do photography.” But I just didn’t have enough time for it among all my other hobbies, and so learning to take photographs always stayed just an item on my wishlist. (Of course I’m choosing not to count vacation and party pictures from my compact as photographs here!) It was not…
