This page will provide you with links to interesting articles regarding photography and photo techniques.
Use the filters on the left to narrow down the listing to match the subject of your interest.
- Concert photography (2)
- Exposure (6)
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- Flash photography (4)
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- Portrait photography (3)
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10 Tips for the New Digital SLR Photographer
by Thomas Hawk
New to dSLRs and photography in general? Get some good across-the-board pointers on what to watch out for and what to try out straight from the publisher of FlickrNation.
Filed under: General
The Ultimate Exposure Computer - A Guide for Nature Photographers
by Fred Parker
If you want to control the creative side of photography, you need to understand the interrelationship of Exposure Value, ISO sensitivity, aperture and shutter speed. You must have this understanding even though you own the most sophisticated equipment available.
Filed under: Exposure
Chromatic Aberrations
by Paul van Walree
A technical paper on chromatic aberrations - color errors that happen due to light dispersion - with explanations on what causes and what remedies them.
Filed under: General
Wedding Photography Experience
by Roman Zolin
Insightful read for beginners in wedding photography, with regards to the photojournalistic style; what to watch out for, what to do and what not to.
Filed under: Wedding photography
Legends Behind the Lens: Tony Sweet
by NikonNet
A very insightful read about a dedicated photographer, how he finds himself in the moment and how he makes photographs based on one single principle. Article found on NikonNet, as T. Sweet shoots with Nikon gear.
Filed under: General
Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras
by NK Guy
This is the Bible of flash photography with EOS cameras. Split in three major parts, this site can keep you occupied for a pretty long time.
Filed under: Flash photography
The Digital Zone System
by Shay Stephens
The Zone System is an idea first formulated by Ansel Adams, Fred Archer and Minor White in the early 1940's and brought out in a book of that name authored by Minor White.
It observed that B&W images could be thought of as having zones of tonality --each one stop apart-- that could be manipulated in lighting, exposure, processing and printing in ways that achieved the desired intention of the photographer.
This article will get you started on improving your metering.
Filed under: Exposure
Weather photography - techniques
by Harald Edens
An excellent starting point on techniques used for photographing atmospheric optics, lightning and other atmospheric electricity, clouds, auroras, eclipses, star trails etc.
Filed under: Weather photography
Homemade Light Box for Product Photography
by Joseph Holst
The object of product photography is to show details of an object clearly. Lighting an object well brings out details and provides pleasing highlights. One method for uniformly lighting small objects is to surround the object in a light box. The following article describes the process for making your own lightbox for small object photography. From start to finish this project should take no longer than 30 minutes.
Filed under: Product photography
Frequently Asked Questions About Modeling
by Joe Edelman
In case you're trying to persuade someone to do some amateur modelling for you, maybe you could pass this information to them.
Filed under: Fashion photography, Portrait photography
