12-bit image files can store up to 68 billion different shades of color. 14-bit image files store up to 4 trillion shades. That’s an enormous difference, so shouldn’t we always choose 14-bit when shooting RAW? Here's a landscape I snapped, then found out later I had shot it in 12-bit...
Photography Tutorials Category Archive - Page 19
Sensor Size, Perspective and Depth of Field
A few months ago we wrote an extensive article on sensor crop factors and equivalence. In that post we covered several topics: the history of the cropped-sensor formats, brightness of the scene, perspective, depth of field, noise and diffraction. In today's post I want to focus on (if you'll excuse...
Long Exposure Photography Tips
Long exposure photography can produce stunning photos. Nighttime shots can bring out unexpected detail and create amazing light effects. Daytime long exposure can create images with haunting moods and ethereal imagery. None of this is actually hard to achieve, but it does take a little thought and preparation. Here are...
Photographing the Milky Way – A Detailed Guide
I have been shooting the night sky since my grandfather gave me my first 35mm SLR in junior high. Today’s digital SLRs allow us to shoot amazing things that I could only dream of a couple of decades ago! In this article, I will go over some of the tips...
Astrophotography Tutorial
Astrophotography is a hobby rapidly gaining popularity thanks to the fast advancing CMOS sensor technology. Over a decade ago, the light recording material employed in astrophotography was primarily chemical emulsion. Its low sensitivity makes it very hard to record the weak signal from deep space. In addition, the lack of...
Recommended Canon 7D Mark II Settings
The Canon 7D Mark II is a popular camera for sports and wildlife photography, but it also comes with a complex and often confusing menu system for photographers. To help guide our readers through these features and menus, we decided to share the settings our team has been using on the camera...
Recommended Nikon D7100 Settings
While reviewing the Canon 7D Mark II, I had to borrow the Nikon D7100 to compare image quality and other camera features. So, I thought doing an article on the recommended settings for the D7100 would be useful to our readers. Although the Nikon D7100 is not a direct competitor...
Exposure Stops in Photography – A Beginner’s Guide
There is so much duality in photography. On one hand, it's the light and the subject, it's the story we tell and the story the viewer sees, it's a feeling, an emotion, a state, a symbol, a metaphor. Sounds poetic, doesn't it? On the other hand, it's pure science, every...
Underexposure vs Overexposure – A Beginner’s Guide
In this article, we discuss the topic of underexposure and overexposure in photography, with image samples and other relevant information for beginners. Now, on one hand, there's not much to actually discuss - a simple explanation of the terms is what interests most beginner photographers. But here is my slightly-absurd-at-first-glance...
What is Crop Factor?
Whether you are just getting into photography or have been shooting for a while, you have probably heard the term "crop factor". With so many different cameras and camera systems available today, this particular term comes up very often in product specifications, marketing materials, articles, books and you might even...