Truly great portrait photography isn’t anything like what you remember from high school. It isn’t about capturing someone in front of a fake background and hoping it turns out. From my experience, the portrait photographers who really know what they are doing take the time to learn everything there is to know about their subjects. [...]

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On a bright day, the sun is both your best friend and worst enemy. It can provide a lot of light if you’re facing the right side, but it can also make many of your photos look unevenly lit or sometimes completely dark. Believe it or not, there are several things to consider when taking [...]

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If you own a digital SLR, you know there are a lot of lenses on the market, and most of them are definitely outside most people’s price range. Purchasing the wrong one can be a costly mistake. While no lens will ever do everything you want it to do for you, you can get yourself [...]

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Have you ever gone out to a gorgeous landscape, perhaps a vast open field or an imposing mountain range, taken pictures you thought were going to be the best you’ve ever seen, and then found out later on that your photos look nothing like the landscape did when you were there? If this sounds like [...]

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It’s time to critique your work, and this week I am happy to switch it up again and get back to wildlife photography. The following rare shot was sent in by Tony Thundal from Denmark. He managed to capture this telling moment with his Nikon D90 in aperture priority mode with an aperture of F5.6 [...]

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So you’ve had a cheap Point-and-Shoot camera for ages and are looking to upgrade. But should you go with another Point and Shoot (because, they are easy to use and don’t have any complicated features), or should you get a more expensive, but also more capable, DSLR camera?

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If you own a digital point and shoot or SLR camera, you may have been sold on its the built-in image stabilization system. For some camera models, this is available through the lens. On others, it is in the camera. Either way, you probably want to know what it means for your photography and whether [...]

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Welcome to the first in a series where I explain what all the numbers and symbols mean on your camera. It’s a problem almost as old as cameras. Manufacturers want to impart as much information as they can about an item, but they don’t have room on the product to place paragraphs of explaining information. [...]

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Sometimes some of the subjects in your shots are in focus, but other subjects that are a little closer or further away are out of focus. This is an unwanted side effect of having what’s called a ‘Shallow Depth Of Field’.

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