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I previously wrote about white balance and how setting your camera white balance control to the proper setting for the scenario you are shooting will give you more accurate colours. But what if that is not what you want? Overriding your white balance let’s you control how your camera records your images. To maintain the …

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements are both powerful photo editors. For the hobbyist, Photoshop Elements can be used to handle most, if not all of your photo editing needs. For serious photographers and professionals, the full version of Photoshop offers more tools for complete control over your photos. Both programs, and many other photo …

Study and Practice Today’s tip could be applied to just about anything you wish to excel at.  It is something I have mentioned in the past and is well clichéd: Practice makes perfect.  If you aren’t out practicing photography, you aren’t out improving your photography. Of course, you could take tens of thousands of photographs …

Use a wide or ultra wide angle lens to add some extra spark to an otherwise dull image. Using the widest lens or setting you have, move in close to your subject.  You will notice that the perspective is distorted as the subject gets further away from you. Some subjects that this works very well …

When I was younger, still in high school, I spent a lot of time learning photography, not unlike today. I read all the books I could, I talked to the guys in the local camera shops and most importantly, I shot a lot. However, back then my choices were all film based which was expensive. …

This weeks tip is a very simple one. Watch your elevations. Simply, if your subject sits at a higher elevation than the camera, place the subject in the top half of the frame. If the subject sits below the camera, place it in the lower half of the frame. Following this simple guideline can help …

I have mentioned in previous tips that I do much of my shooting in the early morning. This is for a variety of reasons, better light than midday, less or no people traffic to interfere with my photos and of course life is busy and shooting in the morning doesn’t interfere with other things leaving …

Today’s tip is a quick one regarding the relationship of colour models. You are most likely most familiar with the RGB colour model as this is used in most computer applications, your digital cameras, monitors, etc. Another very common colour model comes from the print industry, CMYK. If you are using Adobe Photoshop Elements, you …

Many of the software packages that come with digital camera’s as well as a lot of the photo editing software applications have features that let you stitch a series of images together to create a panoramic shot. There are a few steps you want to take before hand though to be sure you have some …

Last week I talked about rating images in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and in the past also talked about using keywords. Both features can be used together to help find images within your collection. Lightroom still has more though.  Two other methods for sorting your images are use of color labels and of flags.  With color …

I’ve mentioned in a previous tip using keyword tagging within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to help keep your photos organized. Another organization method in Lightroom is through the use of it’s rating feature.  You can assign a rating from 1-5 stars for each image that you create. Later, you can filter your images using those ratings, …

Today’s tip is a simple one, yet effective one. A bride and groom can be one of the hardest subjects to expose well. The bride is usually dressed in a very white gown and the groom, a very black tuxedo. Together it is an exposure nightmare. One trick to helping with this is to place …

The old saying is April showers bring May flowers. Today I offer a couple tips to help you capture the beauty in those flowers. 1. Try to avoid full sun. Shooting in full, midday sunlight will produce high contrast photos with distracting shadows. If you have to shoot in these conditions, try to use a …

Today’s tip is another tip for Adobe Lightroom users. The third tip that I wrote dealt with organizing your images. Today’s tip is how Lightroom can help you with that. Using the Library Module in Lightroom, tagging images with keywords could not be any easier. With your thumbnails visible, select an image or a series …

This week’s tip is about controlling the brightness of your background when using your on camera flash. Controlling the brightness of your background relies on a little technical knowledge, the inverse square law. The brightness of the flash output is relative to the inverse square of the distance from the flash from the subject. Sounds …

I am just finishing up my review of Adobe Lightroom. So far I am very impressed with Adobe’s new offering with only a few issues. This week’s tip is for Lightroom users. I have talked in the past about how important proper white balance is in your photographs. If your camera has the ability to …

Today’s photography tip is a short one.  As Winter is turning to Spring (at least in the Northern Hemisphere where I am) there are many changes occurring around.  The days are getting longer, birds are migrating, flowers are begging to sprout. In the coming weeks, the first early wildflowers will begin to arrive, some already …

I am a control freak. When I shoot, I like to have as much control over my photo as possible. I use primarily aperture priority mode to control my depth of field though will switch over to shutter speed priority when I am shooting an image where I need to stop action or where there …

Most digital cameras with advanced manual override controls often have multiple focus modes, most often single focus or continuous focus. Today I will explain the difference between both and situations when you may want to use them. Single focus mode will lock focus on your subject and hold that focus point for as long as …