Photography Tips & Tutorials

Cropping; both in-camera and during post processing can dramatically change and image.  Follow our advice and take your photography to the next level 10 years ago when I bought my first DSLR camera 6MP was consider large.

Understanding White balance and how it affects color in your digital photography.

In film days, a photographer might have a whole range of colour correcting filters in his bag, ranging from amber coloured filters to warm up the image, to blue filters...

Most people think the digital cameras  histogram only shows you your exposure. Few realize that it can also tell you a lot about image quality. Some of you may have heard the saying: “Exposing to the right“ But what does it really mean?

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A JPEG is a compressed image file, and it is smaller in size than a TIFF, PSD or a RAW file. This means that you can fit more photographs on your memory card or your computer hard disk if they are JPEG’s – which sounds like a good thing.

Today an understanding of Photoshop is as important as being able to use a camera. Capturing a photograph in-camera is just the first stage of a process.

Leaning the art of Composition, more than anything else will make a huge difference to your photography.

Whether you have a DSLR with several lenses, or a compact camera with a zoom, you’ll need to make decisions about whether to use a wide angle lens, a telephoto lens, or a lens somewhere in between. So what factors will affect your decision?

You’ve probably heard people talking about the quality of the bokeh in a photograph.  So what exactly is it?

Q. Tell us a little bit about yourself A. My name is Gavin Phillips. Before teaching Photography and Photoshop I was doing web design.

The ability to change your ISO settings is one of the greatest advantages in digital photography over film.

The greatest composition will produce a poor image if the lighting is wrong. Bright or dull, hard or soft, sunlit or cloudy, sunrise or midday; all these give different light qualities that need to be used in the best way to generate the best images.

Packing your camera bag for a day out can sometimes be a bit of a dilemma – on the one hand, you want to take every piece of gear you own, just in case you might need it, but on the other hand, you know you’ve got to carry it all!

Photographers who work outdoors with natural light, rather than in a studio, have to make the best of the prevailing weather conditions.  This will be especially true when we’re visiting a location at some distance from where we live.  If a...

The Impact of your image depends on how you choose to frame it. Here are some of the secrets behind those techniques.

The successful use of colour in photography is a fundamental creative tool. By understanding the concepts of Colour Theory we can arm ourselves with the ability to make key decisions that will greatly influence the success of our images.

The winners of the Veolia Environmental Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 have been announced.

MyPhotoSchool Tips & Tutorials Newsletter 15 is out Now  this week we look at how to create an in camera black background to your images, We and and article and Video from MyPhotoSchool tutor David Tipling on Bird Photography, A terrific article by...

Google has just announced a new search by image’ function which should prove to be a useful resource for photographers.

I’m Heather Angel and I have worked as a wildlife photographer and writer for several decades and now also teach wildlife and macro photography for MyPhotoSchool.

Hello my name is David Tipling.  In this, my first article for MyPhotoSchool, I want to talk about how to photograph garden birds.

Sample Video Tutorial from HDR Photography Tutor Gavin Philips

 

If you would like to learn more about HDR photography consider doing Gavin’s 4 week online course HDR Photography and Beyond

As a photographer who had used film cameras for almost twenty years before converting to digital, it took me a little while to adjust to the idea of looking at the histogram on the back of my camera.