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Professional sports photographers should be able to fully capture the energy, movement, and emotions displayed by the athletes during a competition or training. Fortunately, technology has provided sports photographers with quality compact cameras with large sensors, dual pixel cmos af system cameras, bridge cameras and interchangeable lens systems, allowing you to capture the winning shot. …
Even with a high-end tripod, camera and lens, you might not get the results you expect if you don’t set up your tripod correctly when shooting portraits. Learning how to set up a tripod for a portrait photograph will help you stabilize your tripod and minimize camera shake. How to Set up a Tripod for …
If you use your camera daily, or even once in a while, you will have to take some time out to clean its sensors. It might seem like a hassle, but you must know how to clean a DSLR sensor. It can be through dry cleaning or wet cleaning. How to Clean a DSLR Sensor …
While the most commonly advertised number when it comes to selling a digital camera is megapixels, image quality is not just about the number of pixels. The Nikon point and shoot Coolpix S6500, for example has 16 megapixels, but their popular entry level DSLR the D90 only has 12.3 megapixels. Which one will have better …
Choosing a new digital camera can seem rather daunting—there are hundreds of options out there with a wide range of features and an even wider price range. But if you start by narrowing it down to what type of digital camera suits your needs, you’ll narrow down those overwhelming options. Options like size and features …
If you’ve followed the ads for the latest cameras, you’ve probably heard the term “anti-aliasing” or “optical low pass” filter tossed around. So what is an anti-aliasing filter and why do many recent cameras seem to be getting rid of them? An anti-aliasing filter (or low pass filter) helps to reduce distortion in fine patterns—you …
Most of the time, a good digital camera is pretty adept at sensing the lighting conditions and selecting the optimal shooting settings. Auto and the no-flash auto lets the camera do the thinking and the photographer do the snapping, often resulting in clear, well lit photos. There’s just one problem—cameras can’t actually think. On an …
Back before digital cameras, photographers weren’t finished after just taking the photo. The image was developed, fine tuned and perfected in the dark room, and each photographer did their developing a little differently, depending on the result they wanted. In a digital camera, a JPEG file is automatically processed, but a RAW file isn’t—giving the …
In the world of online sales, product images are essential to draw in the customer—but bad product images can just send them clicking the back button. A good product photo will have all of the elements of good photography in general, like proper exposure and lighting. But product photography also involves more than just a …
With digital camera technology developing so rapidly, even last year’s cameras feel outdated. The latest and greatest advancements quickly become old news, leaving you to decide whether to settle for the older model or upgrade to the shiniest new digital camera. It’s likely that you want to buy the newer – and supposedly better – …
When it comes to buying a new camera, there are dozens of features to consider—image stabilization is one of them, and it often gets overlooked. Manufacturers use different names like vibration reduction, optical image stabilization and shake reduction, but the bottom line is that image stabilization systems allow you to use your camera handheld at …
If there’s one question that will start a riot in a group of photographers, it’s “what camera brand is best?” Okay, so that’s (hopefully) a bit of exaggeration, but it’s a highly debatable topic. While there is no right answer as to the top camera brand, each manufacturer offers a certain set of characteristics that …
