Photography Articles: Cameras and Equipment

© G. Newman Lowrance All Rights Reserved Save yourself a ton of money by first learning about cameras and photography equipment. A few tips will save you big cash - by both getting you the best deals and ensuring that you buy the best cameras and gear for your needs. Learn more in these articles by the world-renowned photographers that teach here at BetterPhoto.com. Beyond Your Mouse: The Best Devices for Image Editing by Richard Lynch Image editing requires great manual control. Most people just use a mouse because they come with their system, but there are other options to consider that may help you get more from your image editing. Read Beyond Your Mouse: The Best Devices for Image Editing... Cleaning a DSLR Camera’s Sensor by Peter K. Burian Recently, I received a note from a student in my Digital Photography course asking how to clean her digital SLR camera's sensor. The question is certainly valid since every D SLR owner will eventually need to address this issue. NOTE: The contents of this article are NOT relevant to those who own digicams with a built-in lens. Read Cleaning a DSLR Camera’s Sensor... Close-ups, Long Lenses and Depth of Field by Kerry Drager Slightly Blurry Background Vs. Extremely Blurry Background: Experiment! Read Close-ups, Long Lenses and Depth of Field... Creative Photography: The Super Wide-Angle View by Scott Stulberg Read Creative Photography: The Super Wide-Angle View... Digital Decisions: Use Your In-Camera Controls Wisely by Peter K. Burian Many of today’s digital cameras include overrides for controlling color saturation, contrast, and sharpness. If your digicam offers these functions, you may be tempted to really boost all three aspects for more "punchy" images. But that can be a mistake, because inappropriate settings can produce unnatural effects as illustrated in the accompanying photo. Read Digital Decisions: Use Your In-Camera Controls Wisely... Do Tripods Effect How Sharp a Picture Is? Yes! by Kerry Drager The Accessory Photographers Love to Hate Can Also Improve Your Compositions Read Do Tripods Effect How Sharp a Picture Is? Yes!... How to Select the Right Inkjet Photo Printer by Peter K. Burian Whether you shoot with a digital camera or scan photographs, print making can be one of the most rewarding aspects of photography. In the past, you needed a darkroom and a great deal of expertise to make beautiful color or black-and-white prints. Today, anyone can make prints that are suitable for framing, without working with caustic chemicals. The prerequisite, of course, is a printer designed to produce optimal results when outputting photos. Read How to Select the Right Inkjet Photo Printer... Keeping Your System Healthy by Richard Lynch A grouping of short checklists for system maintenance for hardware, software, compute systems, digital cameras, scanners and printers. Read Keeping Your System Healthy... Pro Tips 1: How to Keep Your Digital Sensor Clean by Kerry Drager One of the annoying "features" of digital SLR cameras is the seeming ease in which the sensor gets dirty. Sure, you can clone dark specks out of a sky with your image-editing program, but it's often easier to practice good prevention measures. Following are tips and techniques from BetterPhoto's instructors, all experienced professionals: Read Pro Tips 1: How to Keep Your Digital Sensor Clean... Pro Tips 2: How to Clean Your DSLR's Sensor by Kerry Drager OK, you followed all of the prevention measures outlined in the first survey of BetterPhoto's online instructors. But your skies are now starting to show those nasty little specks ... i.e., from dust on your digital sensor! Unfortunately, this sort of thing eventually occurs to just about any digital SLR camera. A good prevention strategy simply makes this happen later, rather than sooner, and perhaps reduces the severity. Below, BP's instructors - all pro shooters - share their thoughts and insight. Read Pro Tips 2: How to Clean Your DSLR's Sensor... Holiday Gift Ideas for the Photographer in Your Life by Kerry Drager So, you don't know what to give that very special photographer who seems to have absolutely everything? We at BetterPhoto.com™ are here to help - with all sorts of excellent holiday gift ideas. Read Holiday Gift Ideas for the Photographer in Your Life...   04-08_mg_0234printer © Jim Miotke All Rights Reserved