Archive for January, 2009

Long Exposure Photography: 15 Stunning Examples

A short post to point you to Darren Rowse’s Digital Photography School article about long exposure photography. If this doesn’t inspire you in your photography I don’t know what will. Click here to see what I mean. Enjoy!

Can’t Decide Whether to Print a Picture on Canvas or on Poster Paper?

Printing large format prints like posters and canvas has now become fast, convenient and cheap so more and more people are beginning to find it practical to use them for business or even home displays. Such prints can give you wide corporate images to hang on your office walls or unique and personalized artworks in [...]

The Power of Black and White

In sterile, dictionary language, photography might be defined as, “the process, of recording visual images”, or words to that effect.  I didn’t actually look up the definition, but you get the idea. In any event, rigid definitions don’t exist when you’re talking about art. Which is the superior medium, color or black and white, film [...]

Shooting Excellent Fireworks Photos – Tips and Tricks

When sky is illuminated with fireworks, one may get excited and try to capture the instantaneous moment. Often it ends up with failure due blurred or foggy or mixture of lights which does not depict the fireworks which we saw. This means shooting fireworks display is a challenge to a amateur photographer and the professional [...]

How To Understand Histograms And Get Better Images

A very useful tool found on most cameras today is the histogram. What is a histogram and why should I be interested? A histogram is a graphical chart which shows areas of brightness on an image (or tonal values) which ranges from pure black (left-hand side) to pure white horizontally (right-hand side), and the number [...]