ISO, in the ancient days of film, represented the film “speed” or how much light was needed to expose the film properly. Film was typically rated from 200 to 800.  The lower the number, the more light was needed for proper exposure.  Many professionals opted for the lowest ISO film they could find because these […]

Photography is literally painting with light and this is the single most important thing that you need to know how to control in photography. Outdoor photography is very different from shooting indoors namely because you can’t control your main light source, the sun. The sun is more harsh than any indoor light, and […]

One of the most exciting things about digital photography is not the camera itself, but what you can do with the photo after the fact using various software programs such as Photoshop Elements or CS3.
A popular thing to do is to take 2 or more images and merge them together forming a composite image. […]

NEF files are the Nikon RAW format.  Canon and the others will have their own RAW format, which might have the extension RAW or something else; however, they essentially work the same.
RAW files are not compressed, which allows you to ultimately print them bigger with better quality than JPG files.  For example, I can print […]

Lens flare is a bright light that causes undesired artifacts in your picture, which is usually a polygonal shape like starbursts, circles, or rings in a row across the image. It can also be in the form of a glare across the whole picture, which reduces contrast. The shape of the lens flare is […]