Shoot Large Files, make sure you have room to back them up / external drives better than DVDs?

Digital photography brought a whole lot of good to the photographers of all caliber, but it brought some changes along with it.  Change isn’t a bad thing however adopting proper practices can be difficult.  Film shooters used to be able to buy cheap binders and sleeves to protect their negatives, quickly label them and file them on shelves or in drawers and cabinets.  Because film had an inherent cost of first purchasing the raw product and then paying to have it processed, most photographers had a limited number of negatives to deal with and sort through to find specific photos.  Digital photography has completely changed the game and technological advancements have helped and hindered our ability to store digital photos. Continue Reading

Nearly everywhere I go with my camera someone will inevitably stop and ask me questions or strike up a conversation on photography.  Most all people who are into photography are nice and want to share the knowledge, which is something I totally love about photography.  Continue Reading

For whatever reason, new photographers assume they need a tripod and seem to set their cameras up atop them.  I often then watch these new shooters struggle and fumble to get the camera positioned in a way that will allow them to take a photo framed how they want it to be.  Tripods have a place in photography, but they should be a tool called upon when needed, not a must-have that’s always used. Continue Reading

The shutter inside your camera exposes light through the lens to the digital sensor.  Manipulating the shutter speed, slower or faster, can result in some really cool effects. Continue Reading

Perhaps one of the most overlooked photographic accessories is the humble reflector.  They are affordable, transportable and unlike nearly everything else associated with digital photography, they don’t cost an arm and a leg.  They are most commonly used on location to reflect sunlight onto a subject, but here I’ll show you how to effectively use one in a studio setting to achieve a really nice portrait. Continue Reading

Over the last ten years as digital still cameras have evolved, ones that also shoot digital video  have slowly started to gain a following.  Since their inception, digital still cameras have had the ability to capture video, and digital video cameras have been able to isolate single frames akin to something similar to still photography, but neither was really good at the other. 

It seems that the video features on still cameras was more of a selling point and not very usable.  The same holds true for digital video cameras.  All the while, digital SLR cameras were left taking nothing but photographs and never had the option to do video. Continue Reading

Photography is an amazing, fulfilling hobby that captures moments and creates memories.  How you take a photo and the abilities you will have to capture what you want and how you see it is to a point limited by your hardware.  Here we’ll take a look at choosing a digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR for short) and why you’d want to use one instead of a point and shoot digital. Continue Reading