Your journey into night photography has reached the Moon, the main attraction of the night sky. Everyone has been at least once overwhelm by a magnificent giant full Moon. If you have your camera with you in one of these moments don’t hesitate and start shooting it because the Moon is actually moving very fast [...]
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Night Photography: Lights and Movement
December 6th, 2010 
Andrei There are many situations in night photography where the sources of light will be in the frame without any possibility to avoid this. The main problem with these photos is how to expose to get the best results. If you will expose for the light sources the result will be a photo completely dark, except [...]
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Night Photography: Flash and Artificial Light
December 2nd, 2010 Andrei The camera integrated flash is a powerful and useful source of light that cope with most of the situations for indoor photos where distances to the subjects are usually small. Night shots are almost always done outdoor where distances to the subjects are quite large and the integrated flash is not powerful enough to cope [...]
Night Photography – Equipment and Exposure
November 29th, 2010 Andrei As I said in the last post, taking top quality night photos can also be achieved with just basic equipment. Since almost all of compact cameras have an automatic night mode, they can be used for taking night photos. Many of these cameras also have a complete manual mode for advanced users where you can [...]
Payday Loans
November 27th, 2010 Andrei When workers need advances on their paychecks to cover bills and expenses, it is good to know that there are payday loans online that are available to people who need them. Online payday loans make it fast and convenient to get the money needed in the short-term to pay the light bill, make the car [...]
Night Photography
November 25th, 2010 Andrei This series of lessons about night photography is not an absolute beginner one; an amount of photography knowledge is required for you to be able to adventure with your camera into the night. If terms like exposure, ISO, metering mode, etc. are new to you, please read my beginners tutorial first, so you can fully [...]
Viewfinder
November 18th, 2010 Andrei Optical Viewfinder on a Digital Compact Camera On a digital compact camera the viewfinder represents a simple optical system that zooms at the same time as the main lens and has an optical path that runs parallel to the camera’s main lens. Being so small, viewfinders have a problem represented by framing inaccuracy. Being positioned [...]
Storage Card
November 15th, 2010 Andrei For digital cameras, storage card is the same thing that film is for conventional cameras. They are removable devices that hold the image taken with the camera. Storage cards are evolving in the same direction as digital cameras: larger capacities (several GB) and faster write speeds to accommodate higher resolution images and shooting in RAW [...]
Sensor Sizes
November 11th, 2010 Andrei If we compare a typical sensor size to a 35 mm film, we realize that the sensor size of digital SLRs is typically 40% to 100% of the surface of the 35 mm film. Although they have similar number of pixels, digital cameras have smaller sensors. As a result, the pixels are smaller and the [...]
Sensors linearity
November 8th, 2010 Andrei Sensors are linear devices. If you double the amount of light, the sensor output will double, as long as the pixels are not full. If a pixel reaches full capacity, the output will be constant or clipped. Human vision is non-linear. If we double the light, the effect will be larger in low light conditions [...]
