posted by Gayle Vehar | Free Templates, Learning About Your Camera, Photography and Camera Tutorials, tutorials |
We know you enjoyed our last free printable so much that Gayle from Mom and Camera created another one for us! You can share this, pin it above or print it out for your personal use. Enjoy and have a wonderful day! - Continue Reading
posted by Anna Gay | experimenting with foucs, Learning About Your Camera, motion blur, Photography |
By Guest Contributor Anna Gay Experimenting With Focus For the most part, clean, crisply focused shots are what we all strive for, but in some cases, creative focus can add a new dynamic to your photo. Here are a few ways that you can experiment with different types of focus. Complete Background Blur One of the easiest focus techniques to master is the blurred, or “bokeh” background. This can be done quite easily be using a wide aperture, such as f/1.8, and focusing your camera on the subject. This will make your subject pop from the background, and create the.. - Continue Reading
I am fairly new to the photography world, and even newer to the business side of photography. I have been shooting for about four years, and have been self-employed as a photographer for two years. However, when being a photographer is your sole source of income without having a “day job,” you learn a lot, very quickly! Here are a few things that I have learned in the past two years that I wish I had considered before. Note: I’m sure this list will be even longer two years from now, so I’ll update you then. 1.The Equipment Situation I.. - Continue Reading
posted by Andrew Johnson | Building Your Business, Learning About Your Camera | 0 Comments
Pin It In this post, we will look at two different, yet very popular, lighting techniques: high key and low key. High key lighting is just what you would imagine - very bright, even light, whereas low key emphasizes midtones and shadows. First, let’s look at high key: Varying levels of light can be used in high key, ranging from just bright enough, to teetering on the edge of over-exposing your highlights, which is a completely stylistic choice. High key is also used to separate the subject from the background, which is why a lot of magazine ads feature the.. - Continue Reading
posted by Anna Gay | Building Your Business, Learning About Your Camera | 1 Comments
Pin It When it comes to lens filters, the possibilities are endless, and your choice of filter depends entirely on what you are photographing, and how you would like your photograph to look. Here are a few examples of popular filters, going beyond the traditional UV filter. The descriptions of the filters are simply to help you figure out what filters you may like to experiment with, but once you purchase your filter, doing your research and learning the ins and outs of the filter you have chosen will really help you achieve the desired effect. 1. Neutral Density Filters.. - Continue Reading
posted by Pretty Presets | Building Your Business, Learning About Your Camera | 1 Comments
Pin It A common question among new photographers is, “What are shutter speed and aperture?” A lot of people seem to get hung up on this question, thinking that it has a complicated answer, but with a little bit of study, it is really quite a simple concept: your shutter speed and aperture determine how much light enters your camera. The two are closely related, as you will see, so let’s look at aperture first. 1. Aperture Aperture is the amount of light that is allowed into the camera through an opening in the lens, and is measured in f-stops. The.. - Continue Reading