Lens hoods are an incredibly simple and incredibly useful piece of kit. But people often don’t know what their purpose is, when they might use one or what lens hood, they should buy. In this article, we’ll look at lens hoods in detail so you can pick the right ones for your lenses.
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Newborn photography specifically means photographing newborn babies – often as young as a couple of weeks old. It’s always going to be a popular genre of photography, as people are always going to be having babies!
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HDR allows photographers to combine images, allowing you to bring out the full dynamic range of an image from shadows to highlights. It’s useful in a number of situations but tends to have a ‘love it or loathe it’ reaction tied to it – images can look overly surreal and unrealistic. This is fine if you’re going for a deliberate fantastical look to your images but care needs to be taken if you want natural looking shots. In this article we’ll look at how to create HDR images and the technical skills you will need.
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Composition refers to how different elements and objects are placed in relation to each other in the picture. It is not only limited to photography, it applies to visual arts such as designing and painting too. Knowing the rules of composition enables an artist to portray their art in a way that makes the maximum impact on the viewer. Hence, composition plays a key role in photography.
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What is white balance, how does it affect photography? Have you ever wondered why your subjects turn yellow when taking photos indoors? Or why is your camera flash making them blue?
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In this article, we offer 10 valuable tips for getting a beautiful skin in portrait shooting. As the PHOTO-TREND team, we occasionally strive to provide the best tips on a particular topic. We try to help you gain more knowledge and skills in photography.
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Hits: 2The importance of Aperture: We explain how changing the aperture can make a dramatic difference to your wildlife shots One of the greatest mistakes a wildlife photographer – amateur or professional – can make is to disregard the wealth of benefits that can be found by shooting at a wide variety of aperture settings. So often it seems that the pursuit of bokeh or diffuse surroundings, consumes the imagination, limiting the myriad ways in which individual encounters can be viewed, and, as a result, the diversity of images that…
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Daytime shooting means you have no shortage of light, shutter speeds are high and there is little chance of either motion blur or camera shake. Why would you deliberately want to choose slow shutter speeds? It is, for want of a better phrase, an artistic choice. We are very used to seeing images taken in the daytime that are sharp, free from camera shake or motion blur where everything is static and frozen in place.
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Have you arrived at a point where you wonder why your photos look more like simple snaps and not professional level masterpieces? There are a number of hints and tips we can pass on that can help you evolve as a photographer. Many of those tips cover shooting techniques, others may simply be advice about equipment and understanding a little more about your camera. You don‘t have to use them all but pick out a few that work for you, develop them and make them a part of your creative photographic process and they will stand you in good stead as you progress your skills.
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Filters have been an essential part of photography since its very beginnings. Used creatively they can improve a hard-to-capture scene, add an extra artistic element to an image or just provide a bit of fun.
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