Photography tips

There are various forms of photography; they include fine art photography, food photography, fashion, nude, forensic, travel, sports etc, among many others. The various controls in a camera include focus, aperture, white balance, shutter speed, metering, ISO speed, and auto-focus point. Camera controls are inter-related. The total amount of light reaching the film plane changes with the duration of exposure, aperture of the lens, and, and the effective focal length of the lens. Changing any of t

Correcting White Balance

Getting the correct white balance in a photo can be tricky. The white balance settings on cameras (auto, daylight, shade, cloudy, tungsten light, fluorescent light, etc.) can get you most of the way toward where you need to be, but sometimes the setting of the photo itself makes it tricky to correctly capture the white balance. Just to give you an example of two photos taken in the same light conditions but using different white balance settings, I’ve volunteered my cat Oz to pose for you. He’

Digital Camera Pixels

Canon new lenses are also exceptional. Canon’s Digital Rebel was a market success, and the company’s new Rebel XT is also hitting good reviews. The previous camera was 6.3 megapixels, the new one is 8.0 and it’s a little smaller as well. ISO settings run from ISO 100 to ISO 1600, with an additional level called Hi 1, which is about equivalent to ISO 3200. For white balance, you can rely on auto, or chose Fluorescent, Direct Sunlight, Flash, Cloudy, and Shade presets, or use a white or gray ca

Digital Camera Lens

September 8, 2009 | By Scott Paul In Blogging | ISO sensitivity, white balance, and exposure compensation can be changed in the camera’s menu system. Like most point-and-shoots, the Coolpix S6 lacks a true manual focus mode, but a specific focus zone can be manually selected with the wheel. ISO 2000 enables the ability of faster shutter speed when shooting in low light or to capture fast moving subjects. And Nikon’s original BSS (Best Shot Selector) function automatically takes a series

Digital Camera Terms To Know

It helps when learning to use your new digital camera to also know what some of the more common terms mean. Below you will find many of these common terms defined.. Automatic Mode — A setting that sets the focus, exposure and white-balance automatically. Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode — a series of pictures taken one after another at quickly timed intervals with one press of the shutter button. Compression — The process of compacting digital data, images and text by deleti

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