With the sudden advent of Mirrorless cameras that was initially led by Sony, and then followed up by other brands like Canon, Nikon and Fujifilm, it’s only obvious that a person who is planning on buying a new camera will have this question on their mind – Should I go for a DSLR or a…
If you are a photographer, it’s a must that you have an Instagram page. Photography and Instagram are a match made in heaven. One of the best ways to increase your followers is to post often. The more your frequency of posting, the more followers you will get. But another thing that is very important…
This is a guest post by our photography online course student, Amit Kumar. An introduction about who you are, what you do for a living and how you got into photography. “Travelling is all about finding your soul”. This is my belief since childhood. Hello I am Amit Kumar Kundu, working in Pune as a…
This is one of the biggest myths regarding a full frame camera. I often see beginners get tricked into buying a full frame camera by the shopkeepers. I want to tell you about one of the things they tell beginners which is not true. They will tell you that a full frame camera blurs the…
One of the most common questions asked by beginner photographers is – What does a polarizing filter do? Let’s find out! Later on, we’ll also be seeing which is the best polarizing filter that you should buy. But first of all let’s see the answer in brief with some before and after examples of shots…
Let’s say you are trying to take the shot below: Can you guess what’ll be most important setting for this shot? If you guessed Aperture, you are correct! In a landscape shot, it’s important to get all the focal planes in focus right from front to back. Hence, we need a deep depth of field….
Landscape photography is one of the most popular forms of photography. Here’s what you need to know about it: Settings to use For landscape shots, we generally use a deep depth of field since we want everything in focus. So we use a larger f-stop number, like f11, f16, f22, etc. There is no fixed…
What is Light Painting in Photography? Light painting is a photographic technique where images are created by capturing the movement of light sources in a dark environment using a slow shutter speed. This method, also known as long exposure photography, allows the camera’s sensor to collect light over an extended period, often several seconds to…
Sometimes, due to the kind of lighting that we are shooting in, our images can have an unwanted colour cast in them. For example, look at the shot below: You can see that the shot appears very yellowish. This is because it’s being shot under tungsten lighting, which produces a yellow looking warm light. Different…
Trick photography refers to a kind of photography where certain techniques, either straight from the camera or while editing, are employed to give the illusion of something surreal. Below you can see a few examples of trick photography: Of course, all these shots are edited. But there is a certain way of going about…