Have you ever wondered how a photographer gets such clear, detailed photos of stuff like flowers or insects? Capturing such close-up pictures is most often done with a setting that comes as a choice on many digital cameras—the macro setting.

Short but to the point. This is superb photography. Check out here to see even better pictures This site is in Spanish but you do not need to worry about this as the photographs speak for themselves.

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!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I think it is fair to say that we all want sharp, clear photos. One of the causes of disappointing photos is camera shake.The result of camera shake is an image which is blurred or not sharp enough. The solution to this problem is to use a camera tripod. Using a camera tripod is essential [...]

When beginning an examination of the use and varieties in digital camera lenses it is important to remember that the digital cameras have a sensor that is smaller than a 35mm film frame. This means that there is a significantly narrower field of view than that presented by the same lens on a non-digital 35mm [...]

Digital cameras have so many features and functions, they can make photography seem too confusing for the beginner. Many new photographers, intimidated by an overly complex manual, switch their digital camera to auto, and never learn how to use them properly. If this sounds like you, keep reading, because I have good news. There are [...]