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...
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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...
Neutral density filters
Neutral density filters help a photographer to use a longer exposure. They are used to block the amount of light that is coming through the lens and...
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...
How to use grey cards to set white balance?
What are these? Gray cards in photography are an way to improve the color accuracy when you’re shooting stills. It is also helpful when you want an...
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...
Lens hoods: Do they really work?
Hate them love them but they are quintessential and most often than not help save your camera from a nasty bump. When Canon feels that every L...
What is a RAW file?
It is often a hot topic for discussion whether to shoot RAW or JPEG. Professional photographers looking to do a bit of post production of their photographs...
Variable Neutral Density Filters
Before we can delve into what variable neutral density filters are and how they can make a significant impact to your photography and the weight of the...
Polarizing filters or Polarizers
A polarizing filter is a great little accessory to have when shooting images in bright sunlight. They are perfect for increasing the saturation of the colors; reducing...
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,...