Landscape photography & Hyperfocal Distances An essential aspect of landscape photography is getting the whole of the frame acceptably sharp. However when we focus on a point,...
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What is Bokeh?
Bokeh is not a term that is commonly used in ordinary language. The term is rather associated to photography, so if you’re new to photography, then you...
Understanding Chromatic & Spherical Aberration of Lenses
Chromatic aberration Chromatic aberration is often described as the inability of the camera lens to project all the wavelengths of the reflected light from an object to...
Lens Vignetting: what is it and how to overcome it?
“Lens vignetting”, “Light Fall-off” or simply “Vignetting” is a problem that is associated with the darkening of the frame at its corners. This is typically most common...
Understanding Dynamic Range in Photography
This is a topic that even illustrious professional photographers find hard to handle and correct for. Dynamic range in a simple explanation can be expressed as the...
Understanding Lens Diffraction
Landscape photographers prefer to stop down to f/22 or even narrower to keep everything in focus on the frame. But this narrowing down of aperture comes at...
Influence of Focal Length & Aperture on Depth Of Field
Depth of field (DOF) is also known as the area of the picture that is in sharp focus. Let’s say we are looking at the picture of...
What is Moiré in Photography & How to avoid it?
When taking pictures of intricate repetitive patterns such as grid lines, embroidery, fine cloth or other geometric shapes (such as when taking pictures of architecture with numerous...
Understanding Histograms
You have probably heard this quite a lot that the picture you have taken is over or under exposed. If you have just started out in digital...
Lens Flare: What It Is and Ways to Overcome It?
When direct light (sunlight, flash light studio light and anything else that can create flares) falls on the lens it creates white blobs in the photograph, popularly...
Understanding Bit depth
We have heard of the terms bit depth and resolution and even megapixels. Often people use them interchangeably. This is wrong as they although related to the...
What is chromatic aberration and how to tackle them while shooting?
While taking wide angle or even ultra wide angle shots the final image when viewed in full resolution on the computer may appear to have color fringing,...
What is Back Focusing & Focal shift?
When we shoot images with a digital camera (DSLR or a compact point & shoot) leaving the camera to do the focusing (auto-focus on), often the AF...
What is white balance & how to correct it?
White balancing is a problem that a lot of digital camera owners, and some of them with a lot of experience too, somehow choose not to address...