The F Stops Here

How well does your editing go? You’re happy with the results? Your print turns out exactly like it is on your monitor? Probably not. Most...

At this point in our conversation a reasonable person would ask which provides greater detail with an APS-C body: a professional grade...

I said last week that sometimes angle of view (and in lenses this is the same thing as saying focal length) can be as important as image...

Let us continue our examination of image circle and sensor size. As we determined, using a projector that produces a larger image circle...

Sorry for the hiatus I've been on. I promise, the blog isn't forgotten. I've started writing a book on macro photography. Wish me luck...

So, there are three aspects to a memory card. First is the capacity. In general, a 32 gigabyte memory card will record 4,000 JPEG images...

In preparation for this article I spent some time on Google, which usually is counter-productive. But it brought to light the lack of...

Differing light sources produce light of varying colors. Unlike the human eye, your camera doesn’t have a concept of what color certain...

The primary unit of measurement in photography is the “stop”. In its simplest terms, this means twice as much or half as much. If I...

Your camera has a tool that controls its sensitivity to light. The function that controls this is called ISO – and if you want to win...

The shutter in your camera is a mechanical mechanism that opens and closes to expose the sensor to light. We measure the period of time...

As we continue our discussion of aperture keep in mind that in addition to allowing more or less light in, the aperture also has a...

This is part one of my Essentials of Photography series. The control that never stops being important, is key to understand in all...