In this beautiful landscape photograph, the depth of field is huge. From the flowers in the foreground to the clouds in the background, everything appears very sharp.
Here, the perceived depth of field is very large, probably several kilometers (or miles).
If that doesn’t help you visualize and understand the idea of a large depth of field [...]

A good understanding of ‘Depth of field’ is essential to being able to take good photographs. However, this is a topic that often confuses a lot of photographers and while one can find many tutorials out there, the explanations are often very technical and make for daunting reading.
We will take a more practical approach to [...]

This is a part where those of you who cannot afford / do not own a strobe package should pay attention.
If you want to include exterior light with a homemade lighting system, you will have a massive disparity between the exterior and interior color temperatures. You’re probably intimately aware of this if you’ve tried to [...]

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After learning the basics of photography studio lighting for objects, we can apply the same rules to portrait photography. However, there is one part of the equation that changes, and that is falloff. Falloff describes how quickly the center spot of the light (or area of equal illumination) changes into the ambient illumination [...]

There are lots of ways to introduce studio lighting and it seems like every book I’ve ever read has a different way of going about it.
I think that studio lighting is like telling a story, you can be a master of grammar but without a good idea, the story will be lackluster. The same goes [...]

Depth of Field (DOF) is a very debated subject in the photography classes. However, from all the available tutorials, this video appears to me as the best for explaining the importance and the effect of DOF. Not to mention that the images which serve as examples are extremely good, made by professionals.

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1. Purple Fringing
- one of the most commonly chromatic aberration in photography

Try not to shoot against the sky if the below portion of the frame is much darker, decrease the exposure one step, use a polarizer and, if possible, shoot in RAW format.
2. Overexposed
- too much light enters the camera in a given [...]

Let’s start with the definition of one pixel is the smallest picture unit in a computer image or display. Now you noticed that every camera specification refers to the number of megapixels that the camera posses - this means million of pixels. All these million of pixels are arranged in a grid. This grid has [...]

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This summer I had the chance to go on a trip at the seaside, the Black See Romanian Coast. I had all the needed gear with me: camera, extra memory cards, extra rechargeable batteries, tripod and a laptop. Every experienced photographer developed a certain shooting style of his own (for example photographers who [...]

Probably the oldest trick in photography, but most people forget about it so take a look.

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