A year ago this month I got my first DSLR; a Canon 60D. The sole reason for the purchase was...
Balance is one of the most important elements of composition yet is also one of the hardest to describe, though...
When most of us think of amazing wildlife photography, we think of African safaris involving massive, white telephoto lenses that...
Leading lines are composition elements that allow a photographer to direct the viewer’s attention in the photograph, making the image...
Composition Basics : The Rule of Thirds More than anything else, composition is what separates the snap-shooter from the photographer....
Getting Mom to Use A Digital Camera At first it might seem like a daunting task followed by months of...
An Explanation of the Histogram : Histogram Basics Histograms are almost always confusing for the beginner in digital photography, which...
Perhaps the most fundamental step in photographic composition is deciding what to include in your image and what to exclude....
In this video, I show a couple of different techniques for using the gradient tool to create more interesting graphics....
New: Microsoft Camera Codec Pack [I]f you have a high quality digital camera and use Windows, you now have one...
[If you don’t care how sharpening works (you really should…), then you can skip this and read Part Two: Techniques....
In response to an email question that I received on the topic, I created this video today explaining how to...
Video Editing in Photoshop CS6 Four years after HD video recording was introduced to SLRs by the Nikon D90 and...
This is the unifying framework of exposure: every setting works in doubles or halves.
Orchid Photography Today, I published an article about orchid photography on the official B&H Photo blog, BHInsights.com. If you’d like...
Over the past month, I’ve published a couple of videos about differences in image quality produced by three 50mm lenses:...
After writing the “Three Basics of Photography” article, I decided that the Bucket Analogy was fine but still a little...
Composition Techniques: Framing The concept behind framing (within an image) is pretty obvious: by placing some sort of visual boundary...