Composition in Photography
Hi there This week I thought I would address photographic composition – a subject that seems swamped with rules, do’s and don’t which sometimes confuses people learning to improve their photography. What is Composition? Composition in photography is how all the elements in a scene are arranged within the photograph. These include the main ‘focus’ of […]
Blurry photographs
Hi just a quick post this time. There is nothing more frustrating to be in a beautiful place or capturing a moment with your camera when you get back to check the photographs and see that they are blurry and out of focus. You may be kicking yourself thinking what did I do wrong or […]
White Balance
Hi there This time I thought I would address the often misunderstood question of white balance in photography. Why sometimes when you take a photograph and it appears on the screen or on your computer as a different color to how you saw it when you took the photograph. In this post, I will explain […]
Histogram
Hi there So in my last few tutorial posts I have covered the importance of the ‘photographic triangle’ to obtain a correct exposure – the combined use of aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Today I thought it was a good time to explain a useful feature that most camera’s have to help you determine a ‘correct’ […]
Exposure Compensation
Hi there So in my last few posts, I have explained the benefits controlling of shutter speed, aperture and ISO and how these three key fundamentals work together in photography. You will have seen how you can used these creatively and also together to ensure that your photographs are well exposed. We have seen that […]
ISO in Photography
Hi there. So this week, I want to talk about ISO in the final part to the key fundamentals of photography basics, following up from aperture (https://antonyz.com/aperture/) and shutter speed (https://antonyz.com/shutter-speed/). ISO is the way we control the camera’s sensitivity to light. Previously on film cameras the ISO was chosen by loading in a particular […]
Shutter Speed
Hi there! In my last post, I explained that with a little understanding of a few key basics, you can take your camera off automatic mode and take full creative control – it will change the way you take photographs forever! The camera has three key ways for you to control the light that enters […]
Long Exposure Photography
Hi there I thought I would start this blog post focussing on a style of image I have been working on recently as part of a small portfolio of black and white architectural images – long exposure photography. Long exposure basically means making the camera record a larger amount of time in a scene that is usually necessary to […]