Tag: camera
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Basic Flash
Understanding how and when to introduce a flash to your photography is the first step for many into professional level shooting. So what’s a flash? Basically a flash is an artificial light source that can be attached to your camera (direct flash) or used remotely (off-camera flash) and adds light to an image where more…
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Wedding Gear
When it comes to shooting weddings what gear do you need? In the Nikon world the standard wedding photographer’s kit goes like this: 12-24mm f/2.8 24-70mm f/2.8 70-200m f/2.8 105mm f/2.5 macro 35mm f/1.8 50mm f/1.4 85mm f/1.8 two pro camera bodies one or two off-camera Nikon remote controlled flashes Repeat if needed for a…
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More On Light Meters
When shooting film here’s another good reason to buy an external light meter. In your 50-year-old film camera the built-in light meter is likely not working anymore or if it is the meter itself may no longer be delivering a precise, accurate and predictable meter reading. Built-in light meters just aren’t reliable enough after all…
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Shaky Camera Syndrome
One of the biggest problems with buying an expensive modern technologically amazing digital camera is the automation. Automation in the hands of a new photographer can easily work against getting a good image as easily as it should work in getting the image right in the camera. What I see often on FaceBook are new…
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Blinded By The Light
Another new photographer asked on FaceBook for suggestions on how to improve her badly exposed image of some birds feeding in a field. The birds were about the size of big chickens and the background was an overexposed field of green. Of the 20 or so recommendations she got almost all of them were wrong:…
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Travel Cameras & Lenses
I was on one of the Olympus FaceBook sites yesterday where a woman* photographer (this is a relevant piece of information) was asking what lenses she should take on a vacation trip to the Far East? Seems a friend was willing to loan her a bunch of Olympus lenses including some PRO zooms and other…
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How Many Lenses Do I Need?
The answer is one. Of course almost nobody shoots with just one lens – well maybe the Leica film crowd with their super sharp 35mm lenses – but you really only need one lens. So which lenses should this one lens be? Generally speaking you can use your kit lens (that’s the small inexpensive zoom…
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Shakey Photos
Are you getting images that look out of focus or just overall soft and not as sharp as you’d like to see? Is this happening when shooting indoors without a flash or when taking shots at night again without a flash? If so it’s very likely your shutter speed is too slow. This happens all…
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Does Size Matter?
When we are talking about sensors, does size matter? Do you really need or even want a full-size sensor or would a micro four-thirds sensor be a better fit? This image from Wikipedia shows the different size sensors that you can buy and a lot depends on your camera model. For example I shoot micro…
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How To Get Better Fast
Not a day goes by without someone asking on FaceBook about how to become a better photographer. The answer is simple: Shoot more and shoot more often. It isn’t about equipment. It isn’t about location. It even isn’t about experience (although that’s the direction we’re heading). Photography is an art form. You get better by…
