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A Quick Guide to Focusing
Nov 17th
OK, I’m a guy who doesn’t always need to know how things work as long as they work. This means that when I take a photo, I don’t really care as much about the technical details of taking a photo as long as the end result looks good to me. So in keeping with this, today’s post will introduce you to a quick and dirty guide to auto focusing.
Knowing how to use your camera’s auto focus system is essential to taking great photos. So let’s get started.
How to Improve your Photography – Look for the Unique Angles
Jul 18th
This is the first article of an ongoing series where we look at simple ways to improve our photography. Many beginners, and even advanced photographers overlook some of obvious ways to better their shots and hopefully these posts will help remind you what to look out for.
In this post we’ll explore how taking a few extra steps to look at a shot from a different angle can help take your photos to the next level.
How to Build A Portable Studio-Quality Background in 20 minutes
Feb 17th
This weekend I took on a DIY project to build a decent background for use in portraits that would give me studio quality shots but still be light, portable and easy to store.
Since I have no talent in painting or construction, I knew I wouldn’t be able to paint one myself or build something too complicated.
As they say, necessity (or is it laziness? 
) is the mother of invention and so I forced myself to look around for materials that were ready-to-use and easy to put together.
After the jump, this week’s video shows you how to build a great photography background in less than 20 minutes.
Understanding Exposure Compensation
Feb 3rd
This week’s video tutorial explains and demonstrates the use of Exposure Compensation on cameras.
Understanding Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority modes on your camera
Jan 19th
This week’s video explains the use of Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority modes on SLR cameras.
Many photographers shoot in these modes to give themselves more control over their shots than full auto would, but also allow them to focus on composition rather than calculating exposure.
Understanding your camera metering modes (Matrix, Centre-weighted & Spot metering)
Jan 3rd
This week we go through the 3 main types of exposure metering modes that modern SLRs use: Matrix, Centre-weighted, and Spot metering.
Each mode can be very useful in different scenarios and being aware of how the metering systems work will give you control over how your photographs are exposed.
Correcting exposure using a photograph’s histogram
Dec 22nd
Tutorial on how to correct a digital photo’s exposure using the histogram tool. This lesson uses Adobe Lightroom as a demonstration tool but the concepts can be used on other advanced photo manipulation software such as Apple Aperture or Photoshop CS.
3 Simple Steps to Enhancing Your Digital Photos
Dec 15th
In this tutorial we go through 3 basic steps that can be used to enhance any photograph. We look at using the histogram and the curves tool to correct exposure and contrast to give photos more vibrant colour and ‘pop’.
This tutorial uses Adobe Lightroom 2 as our demonstration tool but the concepts are applicable to many of the advanced photography manipulation software such as Aperture and Photoshop Elements or CS.
Long Exposure Photography Tutorial – 4 Steps to Amazing Light Trails
Dec 7th
This week’s 2 Minute Tutorial shows you how to photograph traffic light trails in 4 simple steps. This is an example of long exposure photography.