Many of the most enjoyable types of digital photography are, unhappily, seasonal. If you love to shoot baseball or football sports action, you’ll have to wait until baseball or football season kicks off. Should your passion be shooting autumn colors as the leaves change after summer’s end, you’ll have to wait until September and October [...]
Visibly best photo quality and somewhat improved performance make the Nikon D300 a significant upgrade over the D200 and an first-class all-around choice.
When you build up the follow-up to a hot camera, how do you turn up the heat? When Nikon shipped the D200 a few years ago, it’s combination of speed and photo quality [...]
Although every camera uses different buttons and menus to control key features, each includes some variation on the basic array of controls. This chapter provides an overview of the exposure and focus controls a digital photographer must master, and includes descriptions of how these controls differ between digital cameras and film cameras.
You’ll learn about automated [...]
Photography is an extremely popular hobby because it is challenging but is also a way to be artistic and expressive. However, photography is not necessarily cheap. Cameras and film are expensive and the advanced hobbyist is often tempted by lights, tripods, lenses, and filters.
However, it is possible to practice amateur photography on the cheap. It [...]
Canon has declared the new EOS Rebel XSi, which is a 12.2 megapixel consumer level DSLR that packs a ton of “pro” upgrades. At the Rebel XSi’s initial introduction it was available in a body-only configuration for $799 and a kit configuration with the new EF-S 18-55mm IS lens for $899. It’s now considerably less. [...]
