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Taking some great Christmas photos – tips and techniques (Part 3)

ashish — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:51:00 +0000

In the past 2 posts in this series (Christmas photos tips and techniques), I have enumerating some tips and techniques that related to improving your photos of Christmas events. Here is the third post in the series:

Tip 1036 (Take test shots of the location): If you have the ability to be in the location [...]

Taking some great Christmas photos – tips and techniques (Part 2)

ashish — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:37:58 +0000

In the first post in this series (Christmas photos – tips and tricks), I had enumerated some tips for improving the quality of photos. In this post, will continue with more tips on this subject, hopefully these will help you.

Tip 1031 (Assorted Gathering): This is not exactly a Christmas photo tip, since it extends [...]

Bokeh, what is it, and how to improve it – Part 2

ashish — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:25:43 +0000

Read the first part of the series on bokeh and photography here:

Tip 996 (Aperture blades and bokeh): The aperture opening in a camera lens is essentially a series of blades converging on each other, and opening to a certain amount depending on the selected aperture size (click to view the image). Now, if you [...]

5 Photo tips for wedding photography

ashish — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:59:28 +0000

Tip 866 (Get comfortable with the family before the event): It is pretty important for anybody covering marriages to have a comfort level with the family before the wedding, given the need for the photographer to be present at all important occasions and to get really close while taking the photos.

Tip 867 (Explain the [...]

Some advantages of using long lenses in portrait photography (contd..)

ashish — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:28:46 +0000

Tip 821 (Using a long lens can reduce the overall subject): One of the disadvantages of using the long lens for shooting people photos (as a part of group events such as weddings or parties), is that the long lens removes the people from the situation, in the sense that when you look at the [...]