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Tips for Organizing Your Family Photos
As you continue to document your everyday life with your children, you will no doubt soon amass hundreds of photos! Dealing with this amount of digital files can be a little bit overwhelming if you don't have a suitable filing system in place. Here's some tips for organizing your family photos:
What is a fast lens and why should I get one?
You may have heard the term "fast lenses" or "flat glass" o your photography travels, and wondered what the hell that meant, and whether that meant you had to go and get one of them too.
In this post, I'm going to break down what fast glass actually is, and why having one in your lens arenas is a good idea!
Why you might want an external flash...
Anyone else noticing how dark it's getting? Winter is on it's way! As much as I love the dark evenings for a new host of shooting opportunities, one of the things I picked up last year that I had been hankering after for ages was a Canon Speedlite to help with my indoor pictures over the dark winter months.
I thought it might be helpful for some of you to understand why you might need or want to use an external flash on some occasions, especially now that the day light hours are getting shorter!
Photography Project Ideas
Are you in need of some new photography project ideas? Here are 15 ideas to improve your photography, kick start your creativity and document your days!
If you have been shooting for a few years like myself, it can start to feel like you are simply photographing the same things, in the same way, every day. This is when a creative photography project can help you break out of a rut and have you capturing something different! It not only gives you a new focus, and something new to reach for, but it can also help improve your photography skills immensely so they are great for beginners to more seasoned photographers alike.
For that reason, I have been thinking about tackling a new project next year (to keep me on my toes!) and thought it would be fun to share some of the photography project ideas I have come across in my travels - see what you think....
What do the numbers on your lens mean?
I've covered a fair bit on lenses this past week, comparing different focal lengths and understanding lens compression, and I thought I'd rewind a bit for any new photographers, and talk about what the numbers on the lens mean.
This was one of my very first questions I had when buying my DSLR and it took me a little while to figure out! Hopefully this post will help break this down if you are new to lenses too.
So, let's take a look at some lenses and break down the numbers to see what they mean, and what you should look for.
Let's start with a lens that you will often see sold as a "kit lens" with your camera:
How to Work Out Your Depth of Field
To get tack sharp images, one element you need to be aware of is your Aperture. Aperture controls the depth of field - in other words, how much of your scene is going to be in focus. A smaller F number means you will have a smaller depth of field (less in focus) and a bigger F number means more will be in focus.
I have been asked many times about which aperture you should use for what, and whilst I always try to give guidance on that, the truth is that it very depends on the camera model you have, the lens you are using, how far away you are from the subject and the distance between yourself and what you are trying to get in focus.
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It's been quite a few years now since I made the switch from Aperture Priority Mode to shooting in Manual Mode, and it was one of the BEST things I ever did to improve my photography skills.
It was like a whole new world opened up to me, and I started TRULY understanding exposure, and in turn, getting the images that I wanted.
Of course, there was a lot to learn, and there are some things I wish I had known before I started!
So, here are 10 things about shooting in Manual Mode that you might just wish you knew…