April 5, 2010
Taking a look at the top commercial iPhone photography apps, there is an array of great apps for adding effects to your photos, editing photos taken on your iPhone and shooting videos on an iPhone 2G or 3G. We’ve chosen five of these, and found a few iphone app alternatives for free that will achieve [...]
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April 1, 2010
I’m not afraid to admit it: I’m an amateur photographer who rarely gets excellent shots – maybe only less than 15% of all my shots are good. Most of my other photos are OK, but they could be better. I’m sure this happens to most amateur photographers. That’s why there are photo editing tools out [...]
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March 29, 2010
Digital photography provides us with a variety of tools to help make better photos. Unlike the old film days, we now have ways to review how well exposed or metered our shots are before actually printing them. Most photographers contend with reviewing images on the back of the LCD screen to assess how well exposed [...]
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March 29, 2010
As a photographer, making a commitment to take at least one photograph a day can be a daunting task, but when you have somewhere to share these photos, it becomes a little easier. Being a part of community that is trying to do exactly the same thing – take at least one photograph a day [...]
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March 26, 2010
Over the past ten years of the digital photography revolution, digital camera memory cards have become increasingly more affordable and larger. They are the film of digital photography, but thankfully a lot less expensive. So what is the least you should know about digital camera memory cards? Here are my recommendations.
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March 24, 2010
If you want to get serious about digital photography, you will eventually need to learn about how to shoot beyond Automatic mode on your camera, and understand how to meter your shots using various camera exposure settings. I’ll be honest and say that it took me a while to really understand the triangular relationship between [...]
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February 22, 2010
It has always been the desire of humans to be able to capture a moment and then perhaps re-live it sometime down the line. Up until a few years ago, photography used to be limited to a select few professionals or people willing to own and maintain a camera, film and then develop them into [...]
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February 17, 2010
One of the great features of digital photography is the ability to convert color images to black-and-white, or what some photographers call monochrome conversion. There’s little or no need to shoot digital photos in black-and-white when color images can easily be converted to black-and-white in Photoshop or a similar image editor. In this article, I’ll [...]
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February 10, 2010
The world is divided. Actually, I meant the world of web browsing, with both Firefox and Google Chrome going at it hammer and tongs. If Firefox is the uncrowned king of browsers with its popularity and fleet of addons, Google Chrome is the new kid on the block. Well, the kid is growing up very [...]
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February 8, 2010
While we all love our iPhones, there’s probably a few things we wish we could tweak or change about them. This is a list of common iPhone complaints, which luckily have a solution. Most of these solutions, however, require that you have a jailbroken phone. If you’re not sure how to jailbreak your phone, the [...]
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February 2, 2010
Macro photography is one of the great art forms of the image-making genre. Most novice photographers rarely try it because they are accustomed to point-and-shoot photography, which is the complete opposite to approach macro photography. But this art form can be achieved by anyone interested in learning how to handle some essential macro photography techniques. [...]
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January 25, 2010
Digital photos are great, but often times we just post them straight to a website page or let them languish on our computers. For several years now,however, Big Huge Labs has provided some awesome and practical photo related projects that can be done in a short amount of time, with very little computer skills needed. [...]
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January 8, 2010
I owe a significant amount of my digital photography knowledge and skills to what I’ve learned from the abundance of digital photography sites with free tutorials on the Internet. Sure there’s lots of photography equipment you can purchase and courses you can take, but there’s lots of material produced by veteran photographers in the field [...]
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January 4, 2010
If your family is anything like mine, making a family portrait is almost as hard as winning the lottery. We manage to get a portrait done once a year, and it’s usually a few days before or after the Christmas holiday. Here are a few of my portrait photography tips from my recent session. First, [...]
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December 21, 2009
World-renowned photographer Chase Jarvis acknowledges that the best camera you can have is the one that’s with you. It doesn’t matter if it’s a 20- or 2-megapixel camera as long as you’re able to capture that moment. One of the many reasons why the iPhone has gotten so popular since its birth wasn’t because it [...]
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