For many new photographers, and quite a few not so new photographers, metering is one of the most difficult photographic terms to wrap their head around. The short version is that the metering mode you choose will affect how the camera calculates the exposure of an image. These days most cameras are very good at [...]
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Make Your Blacks Black and Your Whites White
The goal in photography is to have your blacks black and your whites white. This is what most photography courses, books and workshops will tell you. It leaves your images looking more life like. It gives your images more ‘punch’. No the reality is that most of the time your camera will not be able [...]
Exposure Compensation in Wildlife Photography
Exposing your images correctly should be one of the goals of every photographer. In wildlife photography this means creating images that reflect the real scene you were faced with. You might have done everything correctly but there is still one problem – your camera’s metering system cannot think. Regardless of what you are photographing, no [...]
Don’t Forget Photography
HDR photography has been around for a while and continues to be a ‘love it’ or ‘hate it’ type of thing. I am not one of those people who avoid HDR like the plague and, at best, I have dabbled around with multiple exposure images. I do enjoy playing around with it and can most [...]
African Moments
First off a big thanks to Hilton Kotze for his guest post yesterday where apart from a killer sequence, excuse the pun, he share some solid advise for aspiring wildlife photographers. Make sure to go and check out his blog or, if you are keen on improving your wildlife photography, join him on a photographic [...]
