Share The advent of digital photography has spiked the interest of digital image processing. Back in the film days, majority of amateur photographers’ workflow stops as soon as the roll of film is dropped off to the processing lab. Not too many photographers ventured into the art of the darkroom, developing their own negatives, manipulating the print, and adding special toning and effects to their final prints. The darkroom was a...

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Share Basic Lighting Fundamentals Photography is about lighting, without light, there’s no photograph. Photographers should be concerned with mainly the different characteristics of light namely: Direction of Light Quantity of Light Quality of Light Depth of Light Color of Light These basic fundamentals of light will not change regardless of whether you’re using natural light or artificial light. Light can alter mood, texture, and impact of your subject, and understanding lighting and knowing how to control and modify light...

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Share Understanding Lenses Part II Focal length and type of photography In the strictest term, there isn’t a rule that states a certain lens can only shoot a certain type of scene. Traditionally, the wider the focal length, the more it is recommended for landscape and scenes with a lot of environmental elements; while longer focal lengths are used for isolating subjects from a distance such as portraits or wildlife. However, there are...

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Share Digital SLR Lenses Explained One of the main advantages for using a single lens reflex camera (SLR) is the ability to change lenses to give the photographer maximum flexibility with their photographic output. A lens is a simple device that bends lightrays to form an image onto a camera’s sensor. In its most simplest form, a lens can be a small hole in a dark box. As light passes through the small...

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Share In our previous lesson, we explained how the three basic elements of shutter speed, aperture size, and ISO setting creates an exposure. In this lesson, we will show you how combining the three elements together to create variations on identical scenes. Before we begin, we need to recap some important pointers from the previous lesson: Shutter speed controls how much light hits the sensor at a given aperture size. Slower...

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