Let me tell you something first: There’s no need to get the best camera you can afford, especially when you’re a beginner. DSLR technology has advanced a lot recently, and that technology is now being incorporated even in the entry level DSLRs, so even the cheapest DSLRs are fully capable of taking great photos. Also, [...]
Unfortunately, to take event photography to the “next level”, you probably have to buy a DSLR. Event photography depends more on gear than fine-art photography since speed and versatility is crucial. Therefore, the equipment tends to be more expensive. It’s difficult to use a P&S (point-and-shoot) camera to get good event photography photos for several [...]
Fine art photography is hard to talk about, simply because it’s art and there’s no right or wrong. You never know, people like to make their photos technically imperfect because they think it adds an effect. In any case, I’ll try to guide you so that you’ll get something you want. “The Best Camera is [...]
So, you want to take photos now? Welcome to the world of photography. Shoot photos, share them, and most of all, have fun! Photographers are usually pretty nice, so feel free to ask around if you have any questions. In Photo 101, I’ll help you sort out the very basic things like gear; but its [...]
Ever take off a pair of orange-tinted goggles/glasses and get really excited that the world looks blue until you realize that everything looks back to normal again? That’s white balance. What’s White? We see things from sensing the light that reflects off of a object’s surface. Something white reflects an close to equal amount of [...]
The focal length of your lens determines how much “zoom” you have, in a sense of how large things show. Field of view (FOV) is the angle at which the camera can “see”. The shorter the focal length, the wider the field of view is from that lens. Vise versa, a longer focal length means [...]
