Articles tagged with: camera
The Sunny 16 Rule in Photography
Although you may think that no two situations are alike, the fact is that there are quite a few constants that you can rely on to give you a good starting point. The sun is one of these things you can count on to be consistent. Of course there are things that affect the sun’s output like the time of day, haze, fog, and clouds, but on a bright sunny day the light output is very consistent and knowing the camera settings for this condition will give you a guideline to make adjustments. This is where the “sunny 16″ rule comes into play.
How to hold your camera
In this week’s Friday Photo Tip I show you some different techniques for holding your camera to help prevent camera shake. Accidentally moving the camera when taking a picture is one of the leading causes of fuzzy …
Classic Portrait Lighting Styles Part I
As we continue our series on portrait lighting we now need to look at the different types of classic portrait lighting and see the effect it has on someone so we can decided when to use each type. By choosing the proper lighting for a particular person, we can help them to look their best by making them appear to be thinner or wider or to accent or minimize certain facial features.
Review: Canon EOS M Mirrorless Camera
If you haven’t bought a mirrorless camera yet, you will soon. Yes, that is a pretty bold statement, but let’s face reality here, it is more than “just likely” that ALL cameras will be mirrorless …
Color Correction with Gels
This week I show you how to match flash color with ambient color using colored gels on your flash. Kerry goes on to show you how to use the same technique to trick a scene into …
Understanding White Balance
In this episode we take a look at white balance and what it means to you. Kerry Garrison shows examples of white balance issues and shows some of his favorite tools for ensuring a proper white balance.
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Review: Sony NEX 7 Mirrorless Camera
Ask anyone that really understands cameras and the photography industry and they will tell you that the future of digital cameras is the new mirrorless technology. Without all of the bulk of mechanical mirrors, pentaprisms, and …
Directional Lighting with On-Camera Flash
Buuuut Kerrrry..If you use your flash ON your camera (not your pop-up flash) you can’t get directional lighting, its going to look horrible. Well, yeah, and that’s why so many people don’t like to …
Lighting ratios for portraits
Shooting portraits using classic styles of lighting ratios is a dying art. Many new photographers are completely unfamiliar with how to do portrait lighting and so they don’t even try leaving the current trend of …
Photography Basics: Beginners Guide to Aperture
As part of our Photography Basics series we talked about Exposure already and this time we are going to cover the mystery of aperture. Aperture is probably the least understood setting of everything on your camera. While shutter settings are very easy to understand, to long of a shutter speed and you will get blurring, pretty simple stuff. Same with ISO, too high of ISO and you introduce digital noise. But learning how to use aperture properly can kill brain cells faster than a frat house kegger party.
How to Calculate Depth of Field
A big stumbling block for many new camera users is how to figure out how much depth of field a particular image will have it in given the focal length of the lens, the aperture used and the distance to the subject. Trust me on this, trying to do the algebra to figure it out is not something most people want to try to do in their heads. In this article we will cover all of the math involved and then make it real easy with an Excel spreadsheet and some links to some free applications to help you out.
Beginner’s Guide to Exposure (Kindle eBook)
Many people told me that they needed a very simple guide to help them get started with understanding exposure. This prompted me to write The Beginner’s Guide to Exposure. This eBook explains in extremely simple, easy …
Sony Announces NEX 6 Mirrorless Camera
The much anticipated Sony NEX 6 has just been announced and is quite the enhancement over the NEX 5 series and has some very unique features. A new dual dial system on top makes switching …
Building a Rail System for your Video DSLR
This is a product that may be new to a lot of photographers. I know it’s a little new for me too, as I just started researching rail systems at the beginning of this year …
Camera 101 – Understanding the mode dial
The latest cameras can often do an amazing job right out of the box but to really take creative control over your images you will want to learn about some of the other modes your …
RAW vs. JPEG – Deciding which is best for you
Yes, RAW vs. JPEG, the seemingly endless debate, almost as bad as Mac vs. PC or Film vs. Digital and people have been asking me to write up an article on this based on my opinion and experience and I have really put this article off for a long time as I wanted to be as unbiased in how I write this given that this is a very biased topic.
GoCast #26 – The Canon EOS M Mirrorless Camera
Canon has just announced the new EOS M Mirrorless camera. In this GoCast, I discuss what a mirrorless camera is, the features of the EOS M, and how it stacks up against the competition. I …
GoCast #21 – Why I bought a Sony NEX 5n
For a long time I have wanted to have a small portable camera to be able to take with me everywhere I go. I never bought a point and shoot because they just felt too …
