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)
- Fashion photography (4)
- Flash photography (4)
- Focus & Focusing (3)
- General (7)
- Portrait photography (3)
- Product photography (5)
- Sports photography (2)
- Stock photography (1)
- Weather photography (1)
- Wedding photography (1)
- News: Jun 2007
- Gear: Jul 2008
- Photography: Aug 2007
- RAW & pp: Feb 2007
- Books: Jan 2007
Lens Flare: What It Is and How to Reduce It
by Sean T. McHugh
Lens flare is created when non-image forming light enters the lens and subsequently hits the camera's film or digital sensor. This often appears as a characteristic polygonal shape, with sides which depend on the shape of the lens diaphragm. It can lower the overall contrast of a photograph significantly and is often an undesired artifact, however some types of flare may actually enhance the artistic meaning of a photo. Understanding lens flare can help you use it--or avoid it--in a way which best suits how you wish to portray the final image.
Filed under: Exposure, 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
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
White Balance
by Ron Bigelow
The light that the photographer paints with often has a colorcast to it. Film and sensor capture this color, which then affects the quality and mood of the image. To create an image that accurately depicts what the photographer intended, the photographer must be aware of the color of light and must make adjustments when necessary. The subject of the color of light, and the techniques of dealing with it, are referred to as white balance.
Filed under: Exposure, General
Photographic Cheat Sheet
by Gordon McKinney
This (constantly updated and extremely useful) "cheat sheet" provides a number of useful tables for any photographer who's interested in planning ahead for prevailing light, enabling the selection of lenses, flashguns, reflectors and associated shutter speeds.
Filed under: Exposure
Expose (to the) Right
by Michael Reichmann, The Luminous Landscape
There is a way to maximize your digital signal-to-noise ratio if you expose your shots "to the right" (of the histogram). Especially effective when shooting RAW, but this is something you should care about when you're about to press that shutter button.
Filed under: Exposure
