The rule of thirds is the single most important photo composition rule you will learn—and don’t worry there is no math involved. To oversimplify the rule of thirds, it dictates that your subject shouldn’t be centered in the frame. In addition it shows you how to best compose your photographs. The slightly more-complex explanation is [...]
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Histograms are quite possibly the most under-used tool in the photographers tool set, simply because they are misunderstood. At first glance they look like a deranged pointless graph, but the truth is– they can tell you almost everything you need to know about your exposure, in a simple and easy-to-read way. How To Read [...]
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Automatic This mode is self explanatory—it does everything for you. This is for point-and-click photographers—but, if you are reading this then odds are automatic mode is not you. Semi-Automatic While the name of this mode conjures up mental imagery of bad-ass machine guns, it is not quite that exciting. A semi-automatic mode is perfect [...]
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History disagrees on how and when the camera was invented. Depending on how you actually define a camera, it can be said it was invented clear back in about 470 t0 390 B.C. by a Chinese philosopher named Mo-Ti. Mo-Ti didn’t call his invention a camera; instead he called it a locked treasure room. His [...]
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