Figuring out your aperture is important to learn in tandem with shutter speed. If you are unsure of aperture, visit the photography tutorials “Aperture Setting” and “Aperture F Number“. By going through these tutorials we will be able to focus purely on changing the setting to best fit your photography needs for each picture you [...]

Photographic backgrounds don’t have to be expensive to be great. As most things in photography, the simpler the better as you always want to keep the attention on your subject. I have two favorite and often used backgrounds. The First are a pair of black bed sheets that I soaked in vinegar to set the [...]

Selective Color, White Vignettes, and Oval Frames- OH MY! The good news is that there are a lot of great programs out there that make digital art accessible to everyone, from the free programs like Picnik to the affordable programs such as Photoshop Elements. The bad news is that I’ve been tempted lately to post [...]

“It’s not the camera, it’s the photographer” That quote is heard in photography circles about as often as the big hand goes around the face of a clock. Every photographer that has any confidence in their skill will tell you that they can capture a great images with any decent camera. Now it is time [...]

The Adobe suite offers Photoshop and Fireworks for batch processing photographs. To Batch Process is just to change multiple photographs all in one sweep. You may want to quickly re-size photographs to be easily put on the web, or just doing a quick crop so that all your photographs have the same proportions. Chances are [...]