User-created articles: Photo Techniques

Simple lighting setup to help elevate your images to another level. Sometimes less is more. Frank

This article explain the way to do High Speed Sync with YN560 flash.

An introduction to the EV adjustments available on your camera. Read alongside your camera manual to learn how to manage how your camera captures light.

Composition is an important aspect of good photographs. In this essay I offer remarks about composition . These are organized as a loose list of items written as they crossed my mind and that I wanted to share.

Focus-bracketing for "Macro" setting and for closeup lenses is discussed. In order to adjust the camera's focus distance automatically, the script brack.bas is cited for the macro bracketing and a new script close.bas is provided for closeup-lens bracketing.

The 15 fundamental rules of composition explained by Alain Briot--www.beatiful-landscape.com-- in an easy to read, step by step format. The goal of this essay is to help you create photographs that you will be proud to show and exhibit.

Nowadays, with a great availability of pre-packed kits containing photography accessories, the fanatics are finding it easier to obtain accessories and gear essential for making their studio complete.

Basic tips on how to shoot green screen photographs - Ensure that the scene is evenly lit with the help of photographic lights,Be prepared, Minimize wrinkles in backdrops, Position the subject 3 to 6 feet away from backdrop, Make sure that lighting doesn’t cast shadow on the backdrop ETC.

ETTR (exposure to the right) is a method to make better photos by exposing more. I made some tests in order to see if it works. I used two of my cameras in these tests. Seven years old Sony was one and the other was rather new Olympus OM-D.

The idea is not clipping while preserving as much detail as possible in the shadows where the signal/noise ratio is very low while also preserving most of the tonal details residing in the right bright illuminated part of the curve where there is a high signal/noise ratio ..

How do you know if a street photograph is any good? Kit Sadgrove has 10 rules to judge them by.

Astrophotography may involve exposures of several minutes or more. Since the sky appears to move due to Earth's rotation, such exposures often require some way to track the sky's movement during that exposure. This article describes building and using a relatively inexpensive tracking mount.

Experiments in photographing Ballroom DanceSport competitions using multiple wireless flashed and an Olympus E5 and Zuiko 35-100 f 2.0

An outline of photographic assignment with quite an extreme degree of technical difficulty. My thoughts on the problems, technical challenges and issues faced are detailed and discussed in some length. Feedback in surmounting these problems is welcome.

This step-by-step "behind the scenes" tutorial shows how to produce a stunning product shot on a very modest budget using ONLY household lights from a home improvement store plus some creativity.

Introduction to fisheye techniques with sample pictures using a Peleng 8mm and a Canon Fisheye zoom lens

How to Take Best Picture with Flash

I really love to get better at making my images look great! And I am in dire need to know how this works!