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The people who take up photo journalism are those who look for news. In essence they are different breed of people who are inquisitive and are very alert and always look out for news under strange or unexpected situations. The most remarkable attribute of a good photo journalist’s is his or her anticipation of an event, which he/she posses a gut feeling or sense something dramatic will happen. This is apparent among the journalist Read the rest of this entry »

As someone who is passionate about, you are probably interested in knowing how to include more depth of field in your photos. There is a lot of literature on this subject. If you’re a professional photographer, you’ve probably learned some things about wide angle (shorter focal length) and telephoto lenses (long focal length). For years photography textbooks and magazines have been promoting the idea that a wide-angle lens provide Read the rest of this entry »

To make the most from your photo album and to create a fun collection that you can share with friends and family, here are a little steps you should consider before starting. By properly managing your pictures in time, you will find that putting together your photo album becomes much easier so the result becomes much better. First, this is a checklist for you to prepare all the pictures you will have.

First: Get all y Read the rest of this entry »

I have to admit that in digital photography I personally have been a laggard. I have two traditional film cameras – a vintage manual focus Nikon and a Canon Rebel, which is a newer model equipped with auto focus. Up until recently, I’ve been heroically resisting the temptation of trying a digital camera, although each of my kids has had one for years now. But a few days ago, my father gave me one of his – a mid-priced Olympus – be Read the rest of this entry »

What a tripod is doing is to create a very stable platform that the camera you have can use and allow you to take long exposures and not have the risk that the camera will shake and spoil the picture you take. Of course, you could just rest the camera somewhere, but with the help of the tripod, you could lock the camera in any position and you dont have to be afraid that the camera will fall over. But you might ask yourself how lo Read the rest of this entry »

Where do most of our digital pictures end up? We all know that he vast majority of snapshots are burned on a CD or saved on the PC in a not so organized fashion so they are very difficult to find. Some of the are uploaded on the Internet and then erased. Very few get printed and placed into scrapbooks or photo albums and even a smaller percentage are enlarged and framed to display on the wall. The reason for this is than most of t Read the rest of this entry »

When you’re just starting up with wildlife photography, composition can be a daily challenge. It gets even more difficult if you’re dealing with a moving, uncooperative subject. There’s not much to learn on how to deal with such a subject. However, experience will teach you how to be quicker and improve your chances to catch the right moment.

There are a few tips to help you improve your composition in wildlife photo Read the rest of this entry »

People often have problems finding balance in their photos because they simply do not know how to start. Most of them lack any professional training in photography and don’t have the knowledge to get the most out of their photos. Others have the knowledge but do not know how to use a specific, sophisticated model. However, the secret of taking a balanced photo does not lay in the specific functions of the camera, but in masteri Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s the deal: photography is not rocket-science, though with the archaic long lens change box camera range, it well may have felt so! With the advancement of modern technology and science there have been many developments in the production and styling of cameras and thus, modern man (and woman – lest this appear sexist) has the advantage of easy-use, single-click, auto-focus cameras that not only store hundreds of pictures Read the rest of this entry »