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I talked last week about using focus lock to ensure your subject was in focus while still maintaining control over your composition. This week I will discuss using negative space in your photographs. Negative space is the space around your subjects in your photographs. The space of nothingness in your photographs is just as important …

I wrote last week about furthering your photographic abilities by joining a local camera club or taking a course at a community college. As I said last week, I found them to be helpful in my own photography. This week I offer a tip to aid in focus and composition. I had previously wrote about …

It has been a long road, but I hope everyone enjoyed my 4 part series on digital black and white photography. One thing that wasn’t mentioned in my tips though, be sure you take your photographs in colour! Shooting in black and white mode on your camera will eliminate all of the colour information you …

Over the past few weeks, I have discussed different methods to create black and white photographs from your colour images. I covered the three main conversion techniques, convert to grayscale, desaturate you image, and using the channel mixer. Of course, there are still even more ways to convert you image to a black and white …

Last week I continued my discussion of black and white digital photography and the topics of using grayscale and saturation to convert you colour photographs to black and white. This week I discuss using the channel mixer in order to create pleasing and dynamic monochrome photographs. Channel mixer is available in the full version of …

Last week I began my discussion of black and white digital photography. This week I will further that discussion by talking about the first two methods of converting your digital photographs to black and white, or more specifically, monochrome. For the sake of simplicity, I will use black and white in my text, but even …

I may have mentioned in the past that I began my journey into photography by working with black and white images and film, from start to finish, including loading my own film cassettes, developing and printing my own photos. Still to this day, black and white has a special spot for me. With digital photography, …

I have been active with computers for many years, and much of that I was also active in photography. Organization of my personal space, work space and life are all pretty haphazard, but my photography has always been very organized. I started in photography many years ago, and soon after began developing my own 35mm …

Last week I discussed practicing using a single focal length to get a better understanding of how a given focal length can affect you photographs. This week, I discuss a few tips for improving your travel photography. If you have ever had to sit through a slide show of someone’s travel photographs, you are well …

The old adage about practice makes perfect applies to photography as well. Very few cameras today have fixed focal length lenses but they are still available. Quality in zoom lenses has become much better with the passing of time and now super zooms (in the 10 and 12x range) allow consumers to get in even …

More and more digital cameras are coming with very long zoom lenses. While 3x or 4x optical zooms used to be common, we are now seeing 6x, 8x, 10x and even some 12x zooms, equivalent to a 28mm – 336mm lens in 35mm film. While these super zooms are great at magnifying your subjects, they …

Last week I talked about the quality of light and how it is affected by the size of your light source. I hope that you have since tried to compare similiar photos in different types of lighting. Until you practice and experience it, it can be a hard concept to utilize in your photography. One …

Last week I discussed environmental portraits. We had one reader write asking us “What do you do to photograph an idle layabout?” You can read my answer when viewing the comments for the entry. Remember, if you have any questions or comments about any of the tips appearing here, please send me an email. This …

This week’s tip is a little misleading as I am not talking about shooting what is around you, but shooting your subject in their environment. A portrait should be more than simply a photo of a person, it should tell a story about them. While a studio shot may look very nice, they are quite …

A lot of the photography that I do is nature related. Each weekend, I am up before the crack of dawn so that I can get to my destination before the sun comes up, but nature is not all that I shoot. I also shoot assignments, weddings, engagements, and the different people I shoot with …

Last week I began my discussion about digital image sensor size, this week I will finish that discussion by talking about how image sensor size affects the quality of images. As you remember from last week, the size of the image sensor compared to a 35mm or full frame sensor when using the same lens …

Last week I talked about how to shoot a sunrise or sunset. This week, I will get into something a little more technical, a brief discussion about digital image sensor size. Many people coming from a film background with an SLR are already familiar with the issue of sensor size. Most digital SLR’s have a …

Creating a dramatic sunrise or sunset photograph is not that difficult, though there are a few steps to take to be sure it is done well. Ultimately, there is little difference between a sunrise and a sunset photo. However, you may have better luck with sunrise photos because there are fewer people up at the …

Many photographers that I know are fair weather photographers, that is, they only shoot if the weather is nice. Unfortunately, they also miss a lot of great photographic opportunities. Macro Photography in the Rain This shot of Dutchman’s Breaches was taken this past weekend, in the rain. It was one of only six I was …

Many otherwise excellent photographs have been ruined by distracting elements in the photo. One easy way around this is to scan all four side of your viewfinder for things that have no business in your photo. The top of someone’s head, a light standard or maybe sign. If you find something that does not belong …