Photography

Do you ever think what orientation suits best for the subject you are trying to capture or do you just press the shutter release button and try your luck?
Orientation can greatly affect how and what image is presenting.

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 series of articles I’m going to look at how to hold your camera to take sharp, blur-free images. This is an introduction.

The rule of thirds is one of the most commonly heard and easiest techniques of composition. Yes, techniques! It might be called a rule, but it is only a guideline for better positioning the subjects on your images. It is useful in many instances but nevertheless don’t be afraid to break it!

Have you ever tried to take a picture of a friend on a very bright sunny day? And the result being not his happy smiling face, but dark face and very bright background behind? Yes, congratulations: you have successfuly captured his silhouette! So why are you even reading this article?
The above example is quite common [...]

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?