Photography Tips for Beginners: How to Get the Best Shots of Your Children | www.elizabethstreet.com

Photography Tips for Beginners: How to Get the Best Shots of Your Children | www.elizabethstreet.com: "Some people never remember to record a single moment. But once you become a parent, those days are way, way over. After all, who wants to not have enough photographs of the children? Who wants to not have images of Baby’s first steps? Or that first Halloween costume? At some point, most parents turn into click-happy obsessives. However, just because you’re photographing your kids all the time doesn’t mean you’re getting the best pictures"

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How To: Take Great Sports Photos

How To: Take Great Sports Photos: "Your favorite player just rounded third base and is headed for home. Your daughter is finishing her dance recital and is ending with the perfect plie. Your son is getting ready to shoot the game winning goal. All of these moments are just a click away...if you have the knowledge and equipment."

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Useful Photography Tip #55: Place a Flash Against a Large Wall to Imitate Window Light

Useful Photography Tip #55: Place a Flash Against a Large Wall to Imitate Window Light: "Often when I shoot products for the website, I try to think of different and creative ways to light the scenes but also have a natural and lifestyle like appeal to them. Due to a busy shooting schedule, legitimate window light isn’t always available–so it needs to be faked. Firstly, we should keep in mind that the larger and closer a light source is to a subject, the softer the light is. And in general, the light coming in from a window is usually quite soft. Soft light refers to the quality of the shadows."

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Why a 50mm Lens is your new Best Friend

Why a 50mm Lens is your new Best Friend: "You may have heard the term “Nifty Fifty“ before.  If you haven’t, it is usually a reference to the Canon 50mm f1.8 lens. But for the purpose of this article I’m going to use it synonymously with any prime 50mm lens."

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Sony announces new waterproof Handycam

Sony announces new waterproof Handycam: "Sony’s new everything-proof Actioncam is definitely a worthy opponent to the likes of the GoPro HERO, although sometimes people just want a user-friendly video camera that can go in the water. Well, that’s where the Sony Handycam HDR-GW66VE comes into the picture. It’s a compact HD camcorder that can be submerged to a depth of 10 meters (33 feet) for up to an hour."

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Stray Light and Lens Flares in Photography – PictureCorrect

Stray Light and Lens Flares in Photography – PictureCorrect: "A camera lens is made up of several elements, pieces of special glass ground to a specific curve according to computer calculations. Each element directs light in a particular way and corrects aberrations caused by other lens elements. A telephoto lens may have from 10 elements up to double that number."

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Sony's Cyber-shot HX50V claims smallest and lightest 30x zoom crown

Sony's Cyber-shot HX50V claims smallest and lightest 30x zoom crown: "Given the ubiquitous nature of smartphones and the ever-increasing megapixel count of their onboard camera sensors, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the compact digital camera may have snapped its very last snap. Sony believes that its new Cyber-shot HX50V superzoom will make you think again."

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Large Sensors, Compact Cameras | OutdoorPhotographer.com

Large Sensors, Compact Cameras | OutdoorPhotographer.com: "Compact cameras are facing heated competition from a new era of smartphones that are always connected and offer imaging quality on par with compacts that were introduced only a few years ago. As most serious photographers know, however, alongside these advantages smartphones also offer lackluster low-light abilities, impossibly slow autofocus, minimal manual controls, compressed image capture over RAW, run-of-the-mill video specs, nonoptical image stabilization and fixed lenses that offer slow apertures without optical zooming. "

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Modern Landscape Masters | OutdoorPhotographer.com

Modern Landscape Masters | OutdoorPhotographer.com: "Landscape photography can be a lonely endeavor. Those of us who are driven to capture the landscape are on a quest for rarely seen vistas, unusual weather conditions and the sort of special light that happens near the edges of the day. We're up early to be on the trail in the dark, and we get home late, having waited for the entirety of the sunset to paint the scene in rich, glowing hues. Some landscape photographers make these treks with a friend or a spouse, but more often than not it's just us and the scenic splendor. "

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What Are Your Favorite Photography Tips? [We Ask You]

What Are Your Favorite Photography Tips? [We Ask You]: "Photography is an art form and pastime anyone can participate in. You can buy a cheap disposable camera, point it at random things, and be a photographer of sorts. But to be a really good photographer, one whose photographs demand to be studied for more than a few seconds, takes skill, determination, an eye for detail, and the right equipment. Though on that last point there are some ingenious camera hacks that don’t cost the Earth."

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