By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com All digital cameras introduce noise into a capture. Factors that contribute to the amount are ISO, length of exposure, underexposure, size of the sensor, and how much cropping is done to the file. The higher the ISO, the more noise. Exposures of two seconds and longer introduce...
By Tracy Greene – TakeGreatPictures.com Fall into a lot of photos When the leaves are piled up high and the kids are ready to take that first dive, set your camera to sports mode, or manually set your shutter speed to a 250th of a second or faster to be sure you capture the...
By Tim Barribeau – September 22, 2011 – PopPhoto.com Now in its 3rd year, “Portraits of Love” is a group that sends family portraits to soldiers in time for the holiday season, and they’re always looking for more photographer volunteers. Portraits of Love is an annual event organized by the PMDA and...
By Brandon Remler – TakeGreatPictures.com See how you can take your photos from ok to wow using photo apps and plug-ins. There are so many ways to capture and share images nowadays but after the capture there are also thousands of possibilities of what to do with the image in the myriad software choices...
Fish-eye Image of Skyline – Canon 5DII – 15mm lens – ISO 400 F/5.0 @ 4.0 seconds By Brandon Remler – TakeGreatPictures.com A great week for scenic NYC photos! We finally saw the rain pass and blue skies returned so I was out and about shooting. I thought I’d send out a few images...
By Jason Schneider – TakeGreatPictures.com You can’t dunk a DSLR and you might not want to expose your interchangeable-lens camera to the windswept sands at the beach or risk dropping it in the drink on a whitewater canoe trip. That’s why this is the season when many active lifestyle consumers are taking a close...
©Russ Burden By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com To become a better photographer it’s imperative you learn how to interpret the amount, angle, direction, intensity, color, and contrast of the light. Subtle changes can make the difference between a magnificent image or a mediocre one. The word, photography, literally means “to write with light.” Light...
From TakeGreatPictures.com Enter today for your chance to WIN a Tamron 70-300mm lens and discover first class sharpness, brilliant colors, and striking contrast in this amazingly versatile lens. The fast, crisp frame-filling power of the Tamron SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC lens makes distant subjects instantly intimate. Discover first class sharpness, brilliant colors, and...
© Bill Durrence By Bill Durrence – TakeGreatPictures.com Anyone who has worked in the photo industry for very long (and many who haven’t) has heard some variation on the phrase, “The reason pros get good shots is that they take so many pictures of the subject/scene.” It’s a half-truth. The implication that the good...
©Russel Burden By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com To become a better photographer it’s imperative you learn how to interpret the amount, angle, direction, intensity, color, and contrast of the light. Subtle changes can make the difference between a magnificent image and a mediocre one. The word, photography, literally means “to write with light.” Light...
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