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June 20, 2009
 
Tips on Capturing Great Landscape Photos

Alongside photos taken by Daniel Chinchay, Ted Burns writes, "After selecting the location which you feel will enable you to capture a great picture, evaluate the amount of light available in the area. If this is for an important picture, make the effort to consider the effects of light at different times over the course of 24 hours and decide which part of the day the light will be most beneficial."          Full Article

June 13, 2009
 
Urban Portrait Photography

Steve Paxton from paxtonprints.com submitted this great article on how to safely and professionally take high impact urban portraits. He writes, "Imagine yourself, camera in hand, walking through a busy metropolis. The sights, the sounds and the smells of a bustling city overwhelm your senses. People all around you are scurrying to and from work. Others are sitting in outdoor cafes enjoying lunch. The city is alive with activity."         Full Article

June 7, 2009
 
Wedding Photography Tips and Techniques

Christopher Maxwell writes, "Do you know what ISO refers to and what settings work best for various lighting conditions? If you stepped outside for some photos at a wedding, what would you move your ISO to? If you are indoors, what ISO setting will give you a good mixture of quality and light capture? At what ISO setting does your camera begin to take grainy photos? On my Nikon D1x I will shoot indoors at ISO 400 with grain-free results."   Full Article

June 3, 2009
 
How to Improve Your Landscape Photos

Paul Miguel writes, "Viewpoint and composition are also important when taking pictures. Try to create depth in the image - using a good focal point in the foreground is ideal to do this, such as a tree, boulder, or perhaps a bridge or stream. Consider the height you're taking the picture from and think: would this look better if I was lower down, or higher up? Don't just settle on taking all your shots from head height - try some variation."          Full Article

May 25, 2009
 
How to Increase the Dynamic Range of a Photo

Steve Paxton writes, "There are times when it is impossible to capture the entire dynamic range of a scene in a single image. Recently I ran in into this problem during a short trip I made through a beautiful farming valley. I found a lovely old shed and decided to stop to take a photo. After securing permission from the landowner I reached into my car to grab my camera equipment. It was at that moment that I realized that I had forgotten to bring my tripod with me."          Full Article

May 12, 2009
 
How to Photograph Fireworks

Suwat Pongtepupathum writes, "The best place to photograph fireworks should be any tall building around the fireworks area about 0.5-1.5 km from where the fireworks will be shown. You must be able to pan your camera without any obstructions in your viewfinder. Moreover, it should be upwind direction too. You must go to your location as early as possible because there will be a lot of photographers and speculators. You must remember that the location is everything for taking fireworks photos."      Full Article

May 1, 2009
 
Rule of Thirds Aspects in Photography

Andrew Goodall writes, "For beginners in photography, composition can be a real obstacle. Even when you have all the technical skills, it can be difficult to compose a photo that is pleasing to the eye. I have news for you: it is just as tough to teach to others. That's because composition can be so personal. What appeals to me may not appeal to you. However, many photographers, beginners in particular, are not happy with the way their photos look. But often they can't quite put their finger on why."          Full Article

April 18, 2009
 
Twilight and Night Photography Tips

Peter Phun writes, "Twilight is a magical time. Just because the Sun is down, doesn't mean you should put away your camera. When the Sun sets, a different looking world exists for the photographers. Colors do not appear the way they do in daylight. Instead, colors display based on your camera's white balance setting and how that setting matches the various light sources in your scene. Backgrounds become less distracting. Street lights and lit building interiors give you outlines and shapes of various colors."         Full Article

March 29, 2009
 
Thomas Hawk - PictureSocial Photographer Showcase

Thomas Hawk is a widely recognized photographer who recently joined the PictureSocial photography network. One of his goals before he dies is to publish a library of 1,000,000 finished, processed photographs. But the volume of his photos is less impressive than the quality of his photos. Here is a sample of his work, each photo listed after the jump is linked to the full size photo on PictureSocial with more information available.         Full Article

March 25, 2009
 
Casio Announces a New Ultra-compact Digital Camera

The EX-FS10 is a card-sized camera just .64” thin, and the EX-FC100 is a compact camera that fits perfectly in the palm of the hand. These cameras also offer a number of other innovative functions including allowing the user to capture a still image while viewing the movement of their subject in slow motion and automatically selecting and saving one frame from continuous shots.         Initial Review

March 20, 2009
 
The New Intelligent Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS15

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS15 is a 12.1 megapixel compact digital camera with a Leica DC Vario-Elmar 5x optical zoom lens. Panasonic has enhanced the Intelligent Auto Mode (iA) on the DMC-FS15 from the previous FS models to now include AF tracking and Intelligent Exposure in addition to Mega O.I.S., ISO Control, Intelligent Scene Selector and Face Detection.         Initial Review

March 14, 2009
 
A New Sony Digital Camera with a Full Web Browser

The Sony Cybershot DSC-G3 is a compact digital camera with Wi-Fi capability and a full web browser. It is the world's first digital camera to offer a full web browser to access the internet anywhere Wi-Fi is available. The 10-megapixel camera is about three-fourths of an inch thin and includes a 4X zoom Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens. Combining the Intelligent Scene Recognition feature with Face Detection, the camera includes an anti-blink function that helps make closed-eye photos a thing of the past.         Initial Review

March 8, 2009
 
Olympus Announces Some Tough New Cameras

Olympus kicked off CES 2009 with some tough cameras. The Olympus Stylus Tough-8000, designed for active and adventurous people, features an impressive 12 million pixels of image resolution for poster-sized prints and can survive a 6.6-foot drop, venture 33 feet underwater, withstand 220 pounds of crushing pressure, and laugh at freezing temperatures. Olympus also released the Stylus Tough-6000 at the same time.         Initial Review

February 8, 2009
 
Wide Angle Photo Tips and Techniques

Alongside a photo by Gautham Narayan, Andrew Goodall writes: "When using a larger lens, you narrow your field of view considerably, so if you focus on a subject in the foreground you really don't capture much of the background. On the other hand, with a wide-angle lens you capture a much wider field of view. Your foreground subject may still be the focus, but you can make use of the background to add interest to the picture as well."         Full Article

February 2, 2009
 
Nikon Announces the Impressive D3X

The Nikon D3X is a high end 24.5-megapixel digital SLR with Nikon’s cutting edge core technologies. With a high price tag, it is aimed primarily at professional digital photographers. The D3X features five frame-per-second burst shooting, 6048 x 4032 image resolution, ISO speeds up to 6400, Nikon's exclusive 3D Color Matrix Metering II, and a 3.0-inch super density LCD screen. It will be available in December 2008 for about $7999.          Initial Review

January 20, 2009
 
Black and White Photography Zones

Tedric Garrison writes, "If you listed the ten greatest photographers of all time, Ansel Adams would no doubt be on that list. He and another man by the name of Fred Archer developed the Zone System way back in 1941. Realizing the limitations of the media, they were striving for a way to create more visual depth. "Expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights," was the phrase that many photographers used to us in order to explain what they were doing when they used the Zone System."         Full Article

January 14, 2009
 
Landscape Photography with Character

Alongside photos by Jim Worrall, Andrew Goodall writes "Landscape photos are a most rewarding pastime, but it can be far more challenging than some people imagine. It sounds so easy; visit a beautiful location, shoot a few snapshots, and come home with a work of art in your camera. After dealing with the public for over 20 years, I swear most people think it really is that simple. But taking good landscape photos is much more challenging. Anyone can recognize the potential of a good photo subject, but making a memorable image is a different story."         Full Article

January 2, 2009
 
Sports Photography Tips and Techniques

Matt Smolsky writes, "Victory in sports is about practice and performance - the best athletes prepare better than anyone else, training their bodies and minds to perform when winning and losing matter most. It's no different with sports photography. Those one-of-a-kind photos you see don't happen by accident, or just because the photographer was in the right place, at the right time."         Full Article

December 22, 2009
 
Tips to Capture Tack Sharp Photos

Pat Lyne writes, "There are lots of ingredients to making a spectacular photograph, but the most important is for the picture to be in sharp focus. Even the slightest blur takes away from the picture, no matter how good the subject, lighting and color. Photographers have somewhat varying opinions on what constitutes a tack sharp picture, but generally, a tack sharp photograph has good, clean lines. The picture has clear definition, instead of a soft blending of lines."          Full Article