Fundamentals

This article talks about different accessories that you can use to support your camera when taking photos.

Hmm.. Good image – what is that? Do you believe only people with expensive cameras can capture good memorable images? Or lucky travellers at exotic locations?
Often people try to believe that buying a more advanced (and expensive) camera will improve their images: you can often see compact camera owners dreaming of all the beautiful images [...]

How you grip the camera is often ignored and seen as unimportant. But is it really? Can you hold your camera steady? Even if you are holding it for longer times, especially if it is a DSLR with a heavy lens – won’t you get tired?

In this article I will talk about what I usually do after I return from the photo shoot.

There are numerous file formats available and which one you are going to use depends largely on what you’re going to do with the file. So which file format should you choose?

This short article is going to talk about the difference between RAW and JPEG file format. Which one should you use?

What are channels? Why is it good to understand them? How can you take advantage of them when editing images? How does the channel palette look in Adobe Photoshop?

With the histogram you can analyse the tonal value of the image. It shows how bright or dark the image is (number of tones captured at each brightness level) and also with a color histogram it shows the amount of specific colour in the image.
You can find the histogram in the histogram pallet (windows / [...]

This article talks about pixels, the basic building blocks of every image