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I will be covering shooting (photographically, not bulletty) wildlife in more detail in the future, but I just found a good post by Chris Garrett from the DSLRBlog called Wildlife Photography Tips For Beginners. It’s got some good advice for going from taking pictures of your pets or creatures in your garden to getting out […]
Continue ReadingAnother of the techniques I mentioned in my composition overview is a simple composition technique which works quite well and that is to give the subject of the image space to look into. If you are taking pictures of people or animals and they are not looking directly at the camera, give them the space […]
Continue ReadingTripods will ensure that your picture is free from camera shake, giving you a much sharper picture. Of course this depends on whether the tripod is sturdy and you get the focus correct. Tripods can be quite cheap, but you will find the the cheap ones are fairly flimsy when extended to any height. It […]
Continue ReadingWhen you want to transfer your images from your camera to your computer, how do you do it? A lot of people will get the USB cable out and connect their camera to their computer to transfer their files. This is not only fiddley to do, but it means you have to have your camera […]
Continue ReadingI have been asked by Mick, on my post showing an example of noise, how do you know if your ISO is set too low? A good question. The idea with ISO is to keep it as low as you can to get the best image quality, but setting your ISO too low will mean […]
Continue ReadingI mentioned in my overview of composition that one guideline is called the Rule Of Thirds and this involves dividing the image into a 3 by 3 grid like this: You can see in this example that the windmill is placed in the centre of the frame. This goes against the rule of thirds […]
Continue ReadingComposition is probably the most important thing to get right in photography in my opinion. Nowadays slight errors in exposure can be corrected on the computer but composition is very hard to put right unless you are a photoshop expert. Sure, you can crop your image and chop off the edges to get a better […]
Continue ReadingIn another post about aperture priority, I talked about depth of field as being the amount of the photo that is in focus for a given aperture setting. The following two images demonstrate this. The first uses an aperture of f2.8 which is a very wide aperture meaning the hole that light can pass through […]
Continue ReadingIn another of my posts called What is ISO I talked about something called noise. This is the grainy effect you can see on your images in certain circumstances. Increasing the ISO setting on your camera is the main way that you will start to see more noise. The following image shows 3 different ISO […]
Continue ReadingThis is one of the most common questions I get asked, and it’s one of the hardest to answer. If you think about how many digital cameras are on the market right now ranging from under £100 all the way up to several thousand pounds, then recommending a single camera is a very hard thing […]
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