In Photography, the sensitiveness of the sensor to light is known as ISO. Understanding ISO settings in Digital photography is very important. In order to understand this...
Photography 101
RAW vs JPG vs Tiff: which one is best for me?
Most first time DSLR users find themselves overwhelmed by the many different options that one can shoot images with. There is the ubiquitous JPEG, the ever dependable...
Hyperfocal Distances and It’s Importance In Getting Sharp Landscape Photograph
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,...
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...
Megapixels vs. Print Size – How Big Can You Print?
How big can I print? The first thing that people like to find out about a digital camera is it’s megapixels. It seems there’s some sort of...
The Myth about Megapixels
There is a very common myth when it comes to camera and there megapixel count. Most consumers believe that more the megapixel, better is the image. While...
Difference Between Step Up & Step Down Rings
Filter threads are magic numbers. These are ones that matches a lens with its perfect filter partner. Miss it and a filter won’t match with the lens...
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...
Aperture in Photography
A Beginner’s Guide to Aperture in Photography There is nothing wrong with taking pictures with the camera on automatic, but if you really want to dive into...
What is Shutter Speed?
Before it reaches the camera’s sensor, the light has to travel through some basic camera structures. First, it has to pass through the lens elements, then the...
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...
Graduated Neutral Density Filters: How to Use them
Even if you’re using a DSLR, the lighting of your foreground and your background are not always perfect. Using optical filters like graduated neutral density filters can...
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...