How to use a Circular Polarizing Filter (CPF)

I was looking online on how to use a Circular Polarizing Filter (CPF) and I came across this good explanation:
For the level best polarization effect, the sun should be at a right angle to your subject. That means when you’re facing your subject ideally, either your left shoulder or your right shoulder will be pointing [...]

Why are faster lenses sharper in the telephoto range?

Someone asked this question in a forum and here is a great answer that will be helpful to all of us!
“First off, lenses are designed for their specific maximum apertures. A 300mm f/4 is not a stopped down 300mm f/2.8. It was designed as a f/4 from its inception.
Virtually all lenses are sharpest at about [...]

How to photograph fireworks

Last year, I had gone home for Diwali and as some of you might know, Diwali is the Indian festival of lights. We were invited to a friend’s place for a fireworks display and I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to try out some fireworks photography as I was quite new [...]

Finding Inspiration – Look at other people’s photographs

Whenever I feel I have plateaued or out of ideas for photos, I always turn to Flickr or DeviantArt to help me get inspired about photography again and give me some new ideas to try out.
Looking at photos that others have taken will give you ideas on what the photography medium can achieve. To get [...]

How to clean the sensor for your DSLR

I have been looking for some information on how I could clean the sensor for my DSLR and I came across this really good article on various ways that you could clean the sensor. Dirt can mess up the sensors and not cleaning it the right way could have a permanent damage to the sensors [...]

What is Infrared Photography

Infrared (IR) Photography is the process of shooting pictures in the infrared spectrum rather than the regular visible light we can see. This spectrum of light is said to be in between the light we can see and the microwaves used by radars and microwave ovens. Many people confuse Infrared Photography with Thermal imaging. Thermal [...]

What is Boudoir Photography

Boudoir is a lady’s private room and Boudoir photography is a style of photography that involves women in sexual or sensual poses. Boudoir photography should not be confused with erotic photography as it focuses more on the aesthetic qualities of the woman. Boudoir Photography plays on the idea of teasing the subject rather than what [...]

What is Autobracketing or Automatic Exposure Bracketing (AEB)?

Automatic Exposure Bracketing (AEB) or Autobracketing is feature on most DSLRs where the camera will take 3 or more successive shots using slightly different settings. This is done mainly for 2 reasons. First, you would use Autobracketing if you want to shoot using different settings and the choose the best of the lot or Second, [...]

Digital Camera Flash Diffusers

There are times, when you are shooting in low light, that you will ‘HAVE’ to use the flash and most times, the light emitted from the flash will too much and it floods the picture.
In these cases, you can either reduce the intensity of your flash by changing the intensity value in the settings of [...]

Use Poladriod to create Polaroids!

You can use a service called Poladriod to create polaroids from your digital pictures! Its quite easy as 1-2-3 they say.
1. Download the free POLADROID application and launch it
2. Drag & Drop your photos
3. Wait… wait…. wait again… or shake the picture. Then look at or print your POLADROID picture
The software is in [...]

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