When photographing animals you need a lot of patience, they either do nothing for long periods of time or they are so hyperactive that you can't keep them in the viewfinder. What you need to do is study the animal for a while and try to predict their next move. Birds will often follow a definite flight path so, if you can work out what it is, you can just wait until they fly past a certain point. I usually switch to manual focus when photographing birds as the auto focus can often end up trying to focus on the empty sky. Read the rest of the article here.
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DSLR Lens Selection
A quick look at available lenses shows that there are far more lenses to chose from than DSLR cameras, yet there is a lot less information about them. Most people know by now that kit lenses only get you so far, if anywhere at all. Here we discuss how to create a personalized set of lens. Remember, those are not the only possibilities, so feel free to adapt those to your needs.
Fashion Photography Guide
Fashion photography to many entails dreams of huge paychecks and a glamorous lifestyle, but it is very difficult to attain this level of success in fashion houses and magazines.
Comparing Traditional and Digital Photography
By Jill Kane
When it comes to photography, the digital wave is very much in evidence and yet, both operate on the same principles. Both have a lens, an aperture and a shutter. The difference lies in how the image is formed.
How to promote a photoblog
Let’s take a closer look at why you might need a photoblog and how you could make it get noticed in the field which is pretty much crowded today (one of the major photoblog directories Photoblogs.org lists over 32,000 photoblogs!).