How to Create Perfect Bokeh With Your DSLR and Prime Lens is a question of many users. Let us see how to create great round bokeh and custom shaped bokeh. Previously we wrote about the technical details of Bokeh and this time, how to create Bokeh. This article How to Create Perfect Bokeh is specifically written for the DSLR users with a 50mm f / 1.8 Lens like Nifty-Fifty. You can read more about … [Read more...]
Digital Photography
Digital Photography covers all the techniques like Digital Camera like DSLR, Digital Rangefinder to obtain a picture through the use of an electronic sensor as well as processing techniques.
DSLR Lens Anatomy and Lens Settings
DSLR Lens Anatomy and Lens Settings are less frequently discussed than the settings of the DSLR body. Settings of Lens is quite important optical factor. After searching in Google Web Search (and carefully avoid the Wikipedia spams) it appeared that most of the photography blog Authors either never actually handled a DSLR or never changed the settings on the barrel of the Lens. Knowing a DSLR Lens … [Read more...]
Creating HDR Photograph with Adobe Photoshop
Creating HDR Photograph with Adobe Photoshop is easy those who only have one exposure digital photograph. Image RAW or exposure bracketing will make it better. But we will take that you have taken only one photograph with the option to save as JPEG / JPG high quality image. Basics of HDR Photography Creating HDR Photograph with Adobe Photoshop follows the basic principle we … [Read more...]
Tilt-Shift Photography
Tilt-Shift Photography involves various camera movements Tilt and Shift movements of the lens or the mount of lens. It has usages like for Miniature Faking. Basically, the functions 'Tilt' and 'Shift' are independent, so there are lenses that allow for example, only shift and there are professional cameras in which the function tilt and shift through is not implemented through mechanics of the … [Read more...]
Lens Speed : The Maximum Aperture of a Lens
Lens speed means the maximum aperture diameter a particular lens can have. As the f-number is reverse, it becomes the minimum f-number of a photographic lens. As usually we mention f-number, e.g. like 1/2 or f /2.8 (2.8 is the f-number and f is the focal length); manufactures mark the lens with this digit. This diameter is named as Lens Speed as the Light intensity of incident rays through a lens … [Read more...]
Guide to Use a DSLR Camera
Guide to Use a DSLR Camera describes how a DSLR camera works and how you can exploit the features to 100% after knowing the basic principles of operation. Elementary knowledge on DSLR or Digital single-lens reflex camera, Basics of Optics are needed to be known by the reader in order to get most out of this Guide to Use a DSLR Camera. Primary audience of this guide are the new … [Read more...]
Manual Modes of DSLR : Guide that Works
Manual Modes of DSLR requires a bit theoretical knowledge. Manual Modes of DSLR can deliver the best out of your DSLR and a Good Lens using your skill. Those who are fully new to DSLR world, it is recommended to read our previous guide How to Use a DSLR Camera. The compact digital cameras do not give access to these modes. What you will find written in this article applies only to digital SLR. … [Read more...]
Portrait Lens for DSLR : Guide and Tips
Portrait Lens is the photographic lens, which are perfect for taking photographic portraits . It is more easy to pickup the wrong Lens due to various reasons. We are not going to discuss the elementary chapters on Portrait Photography taking that the reader is already used to these topics either by reading our or and standard blog or book. Today, most of the good Authors of Digital Photography … [Read more...]
Aspherical Lens in Digital Photography
Aspherical Lens in Digital Photography is designed to correct the aberrations produced by the usual spherical and optically differs from the spherical shape. Previously we discussed about Chromatic Aberration. If you think about the Photographic Lens Design, it will be apparent that; more complex the lens design is; more complex the spherical and other aberrations will be. Spherical aberration is … [Read more...]
Reflector in Digital Photography
Reflector in used both in photography and cinematography, the basic idea is to lighten the subjects with indirect diffused soft light to control the appearance. Appearance of what ? Appearance of the details of the subjects. For example, when the sun is over our head, if you take a picture without using reflector / reflectors / external extra artificial light source; the shadow casting on the … [Read more...]
Which Digital Camera to Buy ?
Which Digital Camera to Buy is not only a helpful buyers guide, but also it alerts about the shameless false promises made by the consumer grade manufacturers. Asking which Digital Camera to buy is not a fool's question, rather a wise man's question to save the hard earned cash to readily get ripped off by misleading Advertisements. Which Digital Camera to Buy : Define Your … [Read more...]