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Get Creative With a Compact
Forget all the fuss about owning and using a top-of-the-range, expensive, all singing and all dancing SLR. You can take great images with your compact camera.
Many compacts lack some of the settings that a SLR might have. Or, if not, the settings a...
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Creativity Using a Compact
It’s hard to believe but compact cameras can actually aid your photographic skills. I know that there will be plenty of prosumer and especially SLR users that will scoff at the idea, but I believe it to be true.
How could this possible be right? Af...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: O - On-Camera Flash
Have you ever taken a picture with you camera using the in-built flash and found the image to be poorly illuminated and patchy? This is because the flash that comes with most cameras is not designed to deal with anything but the basics.
And the bas...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: M - Macro or Close-Up
What is “macro” photography? You will come across many different people talking about the real meaning of macro photography and there are very many senseless arguments as to what it means for the reasonable photographer.
Basically, macro photograph...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: L - Lenses
A lens is simply a device for focussing the scene in front of you onto the camera’s sensor. All cameras have lenses. Some are built in (as in compact cameras and prosumers) and some are detachable (as with SLR cameras). All of them do the same job....
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: J - JPEGs
What is JPEG? It’s confusing for some and you might feel you need to be a genius to understand it. But you don’t.
A lot of people make a lot of fuss about it, but, basically, a JPEG file is an image type. It has a fancy name but it is just the form...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: H - Horizon
Picture the scene: a beautiful summer’s day. In front of you is a field awash with greens and yellows and oranges and a wonderful blue sky. And there are sheep in the fields, grazing contentedly.
Or a beach scene, with boats floating serenely on th...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: I - ISO Setting
Do you know what ISO is? Perhaps not. And, in fact, you don’t need to know what it is – just how to use it. In very simple terms, the ISO setting is a measure of how sensitive your camera sensor is to light. A low ISO (e.g. 100) will not be very s...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: G - Glare
Unwanted glare can ruin a good image. It can happen when excesses of light enter the camera lens and impinges on the camera’s sensor. The resulting image has areas of burnt out highlights, hazy rendition and unsightly artefacts.
In most cases, glar...
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Its Dark - Get Your Camera Out
Wherever you live, there will be a time when it is dark and dreary. Dark evenings can be a bit depressing but also great for photography!
When it's dark it can be refreshing to take pictures of .... lights! No, it’s not a misprint. And, of course, ...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: F - Framing With Digital Cameras
Framing a shot using a digital camera can get a bit of getting used to. Like film cameras, compact digital cameras have a viewfinder which is “offset”. This means the viewfinder image is not exactly the same as the image you get on the sensor. How...
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Get a Digital Camera
If you are confused about digital cameras and digital photography then don’t be. Over the last few years there has been a rush of people converting to digital and that speaks for itself. There is nothing mysterious or complex to understand. You don...
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The Art of Photographing Food
Photographing food is not much different than photographing anything else. The average person is not interested in taking close-ups of food, but there are times when images of food are necessary. Typically, we see photographs of food as editorial i...
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Photography - Have a Rest!
Sometimes, however hard you try, there is simply no way you are going take that special picture. Things have a habit of getting in the way. Perhaps work, perhaps family. Perhaps during some festivity or other you are simply too busy or tied up to c...
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Are There Other Types Of Photography?
As we have discussed there are many avenues open to a professional photographer. Some actually graduate from the world of business into corporate photography. Corporate photography has many facets; it is used for publicity, in the form of advertise...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: E - Exposure
A lot of fuss is made over exposure and it can get really complicated. No more … read on!
Put bluntly, exposure is just the right combination of factors needed to make a decent image. A correctly exposed image needs just the right amount of light ...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: D - Depth of Field
When you take a picture not everything will be in focus. You may hear a lot said about “depth of field”. Don’t be confused by this terminology – it’s easy to understand and, used correctly, will help your images have more impact.
In any picture, th...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: C - Composition
Almost nothing is more important than composition. No amount of manipulation of your image will help a badly composed picture.
But what is "composition".
Don't worry about the fancy terms, but basically, composition is the art of getting the final ...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: B - Bag
How many times have you come across people with expensive bits equipment but a poor or cheap bag to carry it all in? There can be no justification in spending lots of hard-earned cash on the latest gadgets only to put them at risk when storing or t...
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My Sunsets Appear Flat
"When I shoot a sunset, it never appears as it does in the viewfinder. The orange and red colours consistently appear dull and lifeless. What am I doing wrong?"
The answer here is white balance. Every scene you shoot has an array of colours. Ideal...
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Digital Photography: Now Everyone Can Join In
In this age of digital photography, there are almost limitless opportunities for taking great photographs. Despite the seemingly bewildering array of cameras and gadgets, it remains a fact that sales of digital cameras have rocketed in recent years...
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Get that Candid!
Taking candids can be great fun! The lure of the chase and the unexpected images resulting from it will keep you amused for hours. But taking a successful picture can be a bit tricky. Follow these simple rules to enhance your rewards:
- be prepared...
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The Print is the Performance – So Much Heat, So Little Light
The American master of photography, Ansel Adams, said “The negative is comparable to the composer's score, and the print to its performance.” That holds true today as much as it did when first uttered. Although in the digital age the discussion abo...
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Corrective Portraiture
Why do you like some portraits of yourself and not others? The answer lies in the way the portrait was taken and how close your portrait comes to the accepted idea. People like to think that if a portrait of themselves is needed, they might as we...
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Photography A - Z the Easy Way: A - Aperture
A is for … Aperture
Cameras let light in through an opening in the lens called an aperture. It does not matter exactly how it works, suffice it to say that the bigger the aperture the more light that is let in and the smaller the aperture the less ...
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