If you have just purchased your Nikon D80, the controls on the outside of the camera coupled with all the menus and custom settings can be … all » downright overwhelming. We give you a structure for looking at the controls as well as a repeatable ritual for taking great photos with your new [...]

Nikon Understanding Digital Photography DVD You are ready to take your digital SLR photography beyond the automatic settings on your … all » Nikon digital SLR camera, this 45 minute Nikon School© DVD is the perfect guide. Join Bob Krist, award-winning National Geographic Traveler Photographer, on a day of shooting and instruction. Along the [...]

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First, let’s see what I used: a white textile (canvas or so) and not a paper. Why? Because I want the result to be realistic and not plane. Also, it’s important that the background surface should not be glossy.
Natural light plus a tungsten light (two of them would be even better) and fill [...]

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During the past few days I had a walk in the park and I noticed the beginning of autumn. After a few shots capturing lonely people in the far distance on the “golden” autumn afternoon - melancholic spirit, I got connected with the ground: some leaves (left standing or prearranged) create patterns and [...]

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Using the Close-up Mode is one of the easyest shooting modes but also probably has the most impressive results. A few tips on using this on a SLR camera in this video.

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Tip 1
Use your best telephoto and macro lenses. Some little creatures won’t allow you to get very close and since you don’t want them to be scared away and chase them all over the place for a long time, you may consider a telephoto lens.
Tip 2
Be very patient, move slowly and silently. Try [...]

Metal
1. Use a light-blue background to display silver to its best advantage.
2. Use a piece of poster board to reflect light back on the piece, but mask the image of your hands or camera that may have reflect in the surface.
3. Add small colorful accessories to pictures of silver, such as a flower, to add interesting reflections and [...]

Now that you have the 3 elements requested (tripod, background, lamp), let’s start using them.
One rule in photography is about how busy the background is. If you take a picture of your object with the library behind, for example, the person who looks at the picture will loose the concentration over the subject of the [...]