On Digital SLR’s, when mounted with a lens of given focal length, you would have noticed a considerable change in the Field Of View, when compared to a film camera. This is nothing but the “Crop Factor”. The field of view (also field of vision, abbreviated FOV) is the (angular or linear or areal) extent [...]

When you are out to buy a Digital Camera (a point and shoot or an SLR: Single Lens Reflex) It’s normal that the salesman will do his usual up-sell. They would make you believe that if your camera has more megapixels then that’s the one for you. Well, they are just doing their job and [...]

When “facebook” and “twitter” took over our social lives where we spend more time online “socializing” as opposed to real life socializing there comes a time when you need to make that extra effort to make more friends in the cloud. For that — you need a slick facebook and twitter icons on your website [...]

Any SLR user (advanced) who shoots in M mode must have surely come across the term “18% gray”. So what exactly is this 18% gray and how does it affect exposure? Mostly all cameras have an in-built light meter, which are calibrated for 18% gray i.e. the reference point for a camera’s light-meter to determine [...]

If you are an ardent shooter using a SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera then am sure you would have experienced some shots with camera shake, even though it’s not dark. You would experience this quite often if you shooting in M (manual) mode. Well there is a reason behind this and this is often referred [...]

I think in Photography one thing that cannot be achieved is to capture the full range of shadows, highlights and luminosity in a single capture. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range imaging I was introduced to HDR a few months ago through another flickr member. The first thing you’ll notice in a HDR image is [...]

Damn!! I forgot that light meter..does that sound familiar. A beautiful landscape is waiting in front of you to be clicked and you are left with your imagination on how to expose that frame. Well..sunny 16 rule comes handy.

I was always fascinated to see night photographs of traffic esp. those long white and red streaks of light, the sense of motion is captured greatly at night. I have shuffled through enough of those Nat Geo magazines to find some night photographs and whenever I found one I was never disappointed. After said all [...]