Despite the growing ease of post processing images, there are some things that you can’t add or remove through digital manipulation. Camera lens filters still have a wide variety of uses in this digital age. From the most common UV filter to the landscape photographer’s friend, density filters, this tutorial will guide you in using […]
Tilt-shift photographs nowadays are mostly all about making things look miniature. This is mostly done via post-processing with various plugins that add blur, distortion and color enhancements. This definition is actually a misnomer. The Real Tilt and Shift Tilt and Shift are lens motions which control perspective and the rotation of the plane of focus. […]
Most of the time, we hate blur. We set the widest aperture possible and fastest shutter speed to remove blur that breaks a picture. But we can use the blur as an artistic reagent to create something fascinating. This can add a sense of depth and movement to an image. There are two ways you […]
Tom Robinson first set foot in Marrakech with his Olympus OM-1 back in 2003, guided by his sister. According to him it was the first real place he’d been traveling, it was a place that really influenced him in his love for both travel and photography. In 2012 he returned to Marrakech to experience how […]
After making that life altering decision to go long term travelling, my first thought was “How do I tell my Mum?”. My second thought was “How do I tell my boss?” and my third thought was “How do I get better at taking photographs?”. The first two thoughts are for another day and another blog post. […]
Photography for the past century has remained the same, capturing image through light. Not much has changed, the general idea is still the same. Modern digital cameras and film cameras use light to create a photograph. During the film era, rolls of film were used instead of memory cards. While pinhole cameras and camera obscuras […]
Most of the time when we’re driving and we see an amazing scene, we take our camera and take some pictures. Once we go check out the pictures in a larger screen, the images doesn’t give justice to what our eyes saw. Landscape photography isn’t a point and shoot affair. Practice and experience is needed […]
People are always an interesting subject to shoot. The pure emotion you can capture in a single photograph is amazing. When their mannerisms and little quirks show in a photograph, this can explain their personality more than a simple conversation. A great place to start taking pictures is the street. With street photography a lot […]
Photography isn’t limited to point and shoot cameras and DSLRs. A lot of phone manufacturers are putting high resolution cameras into their phone making them viable photographic tools. Apple, Samsung, HTC, etc. are pushing the phone photography into a new level. Almost all mobile phones have a camera. Unfortunately this has no effect in the […]
All cameras have built in flash nowadays. The point and shoot has one and the digital SLR has one too. It is often used during the night or whenever there isn’t enough light to achieve a proper exposure. However, despite having built in flashes, camera manufacturers are still selling external flashes. They are priced at […]
The dawn of digital photography has made cropped sensors the norm for most new photographers. During the film era, there was no cropped sensors. Every sensor was full frame. Since making digital sensors is quite expensive, camera manufacturers made cropped sensors so they can easily penetrate the market. However, full frame cameras like the Nikon […]
The most commonly used portrait lens by most photographers would be the 50mm f/1.8. It has a large opening which is good in gathering light and achieving a thin depth of field. The size of it is also a plus since it’s very small and compact. And with a price of around 100$, it is […]
