Category: Photography Gear

The Telephoto Lens Conundrum - The Bigger It Is, The More Problems It Produces

Snake-eating eagle, Tanzania, 400mm lens, f5.6 @1/250s, ISO 500. If your passion is photographing wildlife, and in particular birds, you will need a powerful telephoto

Why You Need to Understand Your Camera

With each passing year, cameras in the market seem to be getting smarter and smarter day by day. Your DSLR camera is a sophisticated piece

Graduated Filters - The Landscape Photographer's Amazing Tool - Free Quick Guide

If your landscape photography looks like this example (above), you’re probably disappointed. What happened to the beautiful blue sky, you ask? Landscape photographers face a

Six Tips and Techniques for Manually Focusing a Lens

Technology has always been at the forefront of photography. Camera manufacturers always seem to be boasting about a new feature or improvement to existing ones.

How to Choose a Lens for Night Photography

As the landscape gets swallowed by darkness and the lights come on, there’s something magical that happens. Trees and buildings fade into the shadows, and

7 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Telephoto Lens

For the sake of those among us who use the simpler name for a ‘telephoto lens,’ we’re talking about a zoom lens. This article is

Infrared Camera Conversions

Guess what? Today, I, Robin Nichols, will detail a great way to breathe new life into an older camera! All photographers are inveterate gear buyers.

Getting Started with Wireless Flash Triggers - Free Quick Guide

One of the scariest steps for new photographers is taking on the electronic flash. That’s not unwarranted either. It takes a bit of effort to

Getting the Best from Your 50mm Prime Lens - Free Quick Guide

I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz about the 50mm prime lens. When I first began in photography, technology was somewhat simpler. In those days if

Bird Photography: Uncommon Gear

I think all of us have been in a position at least once where we caught ourselves being fascinated by a piece of camera equipment

Bird Photography: Getting It Stable

I’m quite confident that I do not need to convince anyone of the need to keep things stable for bird photography. Those that need to

Demystifiyng the Amazing, and Quite Useful, Neutral Density Filter

If you’ve been involved in photography for any period of time at all, you’ve likely heard of the neutral density filter, sometimes referred to as

Category: Photography Gear

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