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10 top tips for Black-and-white photography
1. Pick the right subjects… For images with impact, look for shape, form, texture and tone – these are often overlooked in vibrant, saturated pictures, but with color stripped away they take on greater significance. Subjects that are already relatively ‘mono’, such as trees in mist, snow-capped mountains and the urban environment, are ready-made for [...]
How to clean the sensor in your DSLR
Just how dirty is your sensor? The imaging sensor is protected by a glass filter, and it’s this that you actually remove dust from when ‘sensor cleaning’ replacing a scratched sensor doesn’t come cheap! If in any doubt, leave it to a Canon-approved service centre. Body beautiful Before you head inside the camera, give it [...]
Coming Down The Pike – Changes Ahead In The Photo/Imaging World
One of our feature stories this month, Jason Schneider’s “The Shape of (Digital) Things to Come,” got me thinking about just what might be ahead in the ever-changing world of photography. In the past few years we’ve seen pretty much variations on the theme, with every feature manufacturers can think of being added to digital [...]
Painting with light – Creative Lighting techniques
While most photographers retreat to the comfort of their home with the onset of darkness, the nocturnal photographer can be found cavorting in car graveyards, forests, derelict buildings and other urban locations. They dress in black and go armed with anything that glows, from torches and lighters to sparklers and wire wool. We caught up [...]
Understand Exposure Modes
To begin with, analogue (film) cameras didn’t used to be so complicated: photographers did everything manually. In-camera metering was then introduced, followed by the first Automatic modes that picked the shutter speed and aperture on your behalf; a system that’s continued to evolve rapidly with the birth of the digital camera. If you’ve recently acquired [...]
Working With Neutral Density filter
As a landscape photographer, one of the things that I rely on most of all is the use of Neutral Density filters. ND filters are typically used to reduce the light that reaches the sensor inside your camera, meaning that you can have the shutter open for a much longer time period in order to [...]
Understand Composition
This guide presents the most widely used rules of composition, although you might think in this age of high-resolution photography and powerful, easy-to-use photo editing software that the act of composing your photos using your digicam’s viewfinder would be a dying art. After all, you can always re-crop the image later! Editing software can’t do [...]
Practical Landscape Techniques
One of the big draws to landscape photography for me is that it encourages us to all get out into the great outdoors. Being outside; whether it be in the countryside, on top of a mountain or along the coastline, invigorates the senses, makes you relaxed and gives you an enormous sense of well-being. Being [...]
A Beginners Guide to landscape cameras and kit
Compact cameras are, as the name suggests, cameras which offer pretty much all you need in a handy small size. Most offer a healthy zoom lens range, from wide angle to telephoto, and a built-in flash unit.The image quality from compacts in recent years has increased dramatically, especially from the more ‘high-end’ units, which tend [...]
Which smartphone has the best camera?
The earliest cameraphones were terrible. Accessing the camera among all the other features was a tedious process and, once found, it performed its tasks at a snail’s pace. And the less said about the images the better. They were fine for emergencies but no substitute for a proper camera. But over time they’ve got better [...]
