There are two reasons to shoot black and white photography. One reason is because you think it looks old fashioned and it’s a cool effect. A better reason to shoot black and white photography is because of the lessons it can teach you. Black and White Photography teaches you about values. We’re not talking about [...]

One tool that any good digital photo editing software program would have is a histogram and a way to manipulate the histogram. A histogram on your digital camera or displayed on your computer shows the distribution of light in a photograph, the darks to the left and the highlights to the right, while everything else [...]

Camera won’t work? Camera leaks light? Camera just messing up?
Don’t despair…. we have some tips and solutions that could save you tons of money in camera repair or replacement.
Read on and smile:
First, the most common problem:

Flash Photography …. when and how to use flash units.

Always remember: The power of a beam of light falls off fast!
Technically…. light falls of as the distance is squared.

Film types and characteristics:
Let’s start with basic Black & White film …
Low speed film (100) will be pretty fine grained because the silver salts are smaller and packed closer together.

High speed film like (400) is much faster because (basically) the silver salts are larger, thus more sensitive to the light, but will tend to be [...]