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Archive for the ‘Composition’ Category

Quick-Tip: Aperture Bracketing

June 24th, 2007

How to use the aperture priority mode on your camera to bracket your depth of field in a similar fashion to exposure bracketing.



The New Rule Of Thirds

April 22nd, 2007

The next generation in composition techniques has arrived. Feast your eyes on the “New” rule of thirds.



New Perspectives, Prime Lenses, and Digital Film

March 1st, 2007

Get Creative With Your Photographic Perspectives
The Digital Photography School urges us to Get a New Perspective by Getting High… With Your Camera. Sometimes we (photographers) forget to move around and try new things when we’re out snapping shots. Taking pictures pointing straight down onto your subject is definitely not a widely used technique, [...]



6 Tips for Controlling Depth of Field

February 27th, 2007

Depth of field (DOF) is one of the most important factors in determining the look and feel of a photograph. It’s also the most overlooked for photographers moving from a point-and-shoot camera to a digital SLR camera. The dSLR (and most of the ultra-zooms) offers huge amounts of control over depth of field, [...]



Night + Camera + Car = ART

February 25th, 2007

If it’s dark outside, you have a camera, and you’re in a car, don’t make waste of your time — make art! I’ve got to give my Dad credit for this one, since he’s the one that mentioned it to me. Actually, he sent me a bunch of whacked-out pictures and made me [...]