Shutter speed goes hand in hand with the aperture setting on your camera. They both influence how much light enters the camera & therefore the lighting of your photography. If you don’t know what shutter speed is, visit “What is Shutter Speed?” and “Shutter Speed Settings” to learn more.  In this photography tutorial we are [...]

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 [...]

Think of all the things that could get in the way of a perfect photo shoot. If rain, lightning or other so-called bad weather are on your list, you can scratch them off now! Once you learn how to use these elements to your benefit, you’ll be heading out the door with your camera in [...]