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Taking things further
When you take a picture of a sunset you generally want the sky to come out right rather than the ground. It’s easy to make sure that happens.
You don’t have to limit your sunset shots to only being about the sunset. Here’s how you can light up the stuff in the foreground.
With a few of these tricks up your sleeve there’s no limit to the kind of fun you can have immersed in the tiny, bizarre world of macro. This is the first page of a two-part guide offering all the stuff I wish I’d known earlier.
Following on from the previous article, now I’m going to talk about some ways to take your macro photos to the next level.
I mention this a few times throughout these photography guides, but I’m devoting a whole page to it this time because it’s worth stressing and it’s also such an easy thing to do. I’m talking about just getting down (or up) to the subject’s eye level.
They’re all around us, but getting a good shot of one can be exasperating. Here are some tricks to help your bird photography
In the first section I gave a bunch of suggestions for getting started in bird photography. Here are some more ideas, starting off with birds in flight
This is a handy trick for making your subject stand out from its background. Here’s how it works
Sometimes you want to stop the background from mucking up your photo. It’s handy knowing how to isolate your subject from everything going on behind it. And digital SLRs make it easy
I’ve been getting a lot of nice feedback from my frog photos. So I figured it would be good to explain how I work. It’s not difficult. You just need a bit of patience and a tripod. Oh yeah, and some frogs.
If there’s anything better than seeing an animal in its natural habitat, it’s getting a picture of it too. But animals can be notoriously uncooperative photo subjects. Here are some tricks used by the professionals to improve their chances.
People familiar with image-editing programs are able to do some clever stuff to their photos, but how much work does a photo need to make it great? The answer might surprise you.
You’d think it was difficult. I mean dogs can move really quickly, right? But it’s easy if you know the right settings.
Before you start
The essential basics
Common problems and their solutions
Photography at night
Technical stuff explained
Photography words deciphered
Sneaky stuff
Quick tips
Extras
