Photography

Aperture – variable or fixed?

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Let’s talk a bit more about photography and lenses in particular. In the last few posts we talked about photography, cameras and lenses. Today, I want to expand on that. A bit more on lenses, apertures to be exact. When purchasing a lens one of the decisions to make is to decide whether you’re happy […]

Photography

Why is the Lens so important?

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So, why is the Lens so important (I mean camera lens here)? Why so many photographers or experts say that the lens is more important than the camera? Let’s start by looking at how the lens works. source:Wikipedia, author: Bill Ebbesen How the lens works Lens is a number of glasses put together to filter […]

Photography

Camera body or lens?

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If you are a photographer (everyone who takes photos is a photographer), you may start pondering on this question. And I don’t mean to ask “What was first?” kind of question, but “What is more important? Which piece of your equipment?” You may immediately answer that the camera of course, but what about the lenses? […]

Photography

Shall we use Neutral Density Filters

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Now, you may be thinking: What is this about? What are Neutral Density (ND) filters? The question I’m actually going to discuss here is: ” Shall I use ND filters (Gradual ND in this case especially), or shall I do that in post-processing (in Photoshop or Lightroom)? Great question, but let’s start with what Neutral […]

Lightroom

Episode 56 of Photoshop Lightroom TV

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Finally, another episode of Photoshop Lightroom TV goes live! Last week, there was no new episode because of technical reasons, but fortunately this week brings another episode of Photoshop Lightroom TV – Episode 56. This week episode even brings a photography tip as part of “Tip of the Week”. The usual tutorials that I am […]

Photography

Prime lens or Zoom lens?

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Welcome to this friday’s post. If you have been interested in photography, you must have heard about prime lenses (we all know that pretty much everyone has heard about zoom lenses) before. But the question that arises is: ” What are the differences? Which ones are better? “ Let me try to explain that today. […]

Photography

Into the wild with Julieanne Kost

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Welcome to the new week. Today we have a Bank Holiday here in Britain, but most of you folks do not so I decided to post something for you. 😉 Today, I’ll point you to a great page and I’ll talk about Julieanne Kost. You have heard about Julieanne before, she’s an Adobe Evangelist, or […]

Photography

Mastering depth of field – part 2

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I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s post. Today, we’ll talk more about depth of field. Let’s take it from the moment where I started talking about manipulating depth of field. There are three factors that define (or manipulate) depth of field: aperture setting focal length of the lens distance from the subject Focal length is something […]

Photography

Mastering Depth of Field

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Let’s start a new week with a photography post. This blog is not just about Photoshop and Lightroom, but photography as well. I’ve been into photography for many years, my passion for photography started when I was in high school and it’s been a real passion for me since then. So, what is depth of […]