Exposure Compensation Sounds complicated? It really isn’t. MANY cameras have this feature, you just may not know about it. Exposure Compensation is a way in which you setup your camera to intentionally make the image brighter or darker. Why would you want to do this? If you set your camera on full-auto, the camera is […]
Photography is an art form. It’s an art form of both selection and crafting. It’s different in that you aren’t creating something from nothing (like painting), but instead you’re selecting what should and shouldn’t be in the frame. Then you select, from the dozen or hundreds of shots you’ve taken, the ones you’ll hold up […]
The “Rule of Thirds” is a guideline on how to compose your image in a generally accepted and appealing way. This isn’t a newly made up rule, in fact artists have been using this and other guidelines to help them design their works for quite some time. Once you’re aware of this “rule”, it’s fun […]
I’ve loved photography for as long as I can remember. Seriously. I can remember being a little kid, growing up in San Diego and getting my first plastic 120 film camera. I learned how to load the film off the spool into the camera in the dark. I later “graduated” to a 110 pocket instamatic […]
There are several things that you can do to take sharper pictures. Lots of things can contribute to a pictures that is a little soft or downright blurry: too slow a shutter speed, not enough light, etc. There is one technique that you can do EVERY time you take a photo that can significantly increase […]
