Category Archives: Photography Basics

Choosing a Camera Lens Filter

Filters are a great way to protection your expensive glass lens. After all, they are an investment. There are filters that offer more than protection and help create some very useful effects for your pictures. Now, you can create some of the effects with your editing software, but it is nice to have the filter right […]

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Deciphering Lens Lingo

Are you in the market for a new lens for your camera? Do you understand what you are looking at when you see all the numbers and symbols on the lens? It can be confusing, but once you know what you are reading, you can glean a lot of useful information for selecting your next […]

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Find Your Photography Style, Pt. 2

Stop looking at everyone else’s photography. That is it. It is that simple. If you are trying to establish your photography style, you have to stop looking at what everyone else is doing. It is one thing to study a photography technique. It is another to spend hours looking at other people’s work and growing more […]

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How to Find Your Photography Style - Part One

I hear a lot of beginning photographers say they do not know what their photography style is or how to find it. Your photography style develops the more you practice creating images and trying out new techniques. If you want to get better, you have to start shooting lots of pictures.

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Understanding Aperture and Depth of Field

Aperture describes the size of the opening in a camera’s lens. The amount of light let into the camera is measured in f-stops. Think of aperture like you would the pupil of your eye. It controls light. The higher the f-stop number, the smaller the opening and the less light the lens allows in. Zoom […]

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