Your shutter speed controls how long your shutter stays open for an exposure. If you have a lot of light on a subject, the shutter closes fast, if you have low light, the shutter speed is slow. Pretty basic. The faster the shutter speed, the sharper your images. Have you ever taken a picture of [...]

Aperture sets how wide the lens opening is when you take a picture. The wider it opens, the more light it lets in. Also, the wider it opens up the more blurry the background and foreground of your image. When you are setting the number on your camera, the lower the number, the wider it [...]

Today’s cameras are getting better and better, aren’t they? As a matter of fact, I have a camera phone that takes some crazy sharp pictures with extraordinary color, all at the click of a button. However, there are plenty of times where I would like to tell the camera what to do, how to see [...]

If you’ve come to this site you probably love photography. There are probably only a few photographers that wouldn’t love making money with photography. Well just like any other method of making money, making money with photography is work. Don’t get me wrong it’s fun work, but it still requires putting in the practice, learning [...]

Resolution is simply the measurement of a pixel plane and is used for measuring monitors, digital photo sensors, and just about anything you’d put on a monitor or photo sensor such as web pages, photographs, and windows. Resolution is measured in pixels and megapixels. The amount of pixels that a camera catches in a single [...]