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Learn Digital Photography with Sandro Dzneladze

  • Camera Basics

    • Camera Basics - Carefully Approaching Your Camera

      Carefully Approaching Your Camera

      I’m not actually talking about a specific walk or gait needed to ‘approach’ your camera, nor am I indicating stalking your camera as a lion would its prey. What I mean by careful approach is that you should have something in mind when you go out to shoot. Too often, photographers don’t take the time

    • Camera Basics - Using a Tripod — How Good Sticks Help Create Images

      Using a Tripod — How Good Sticks Help Create Images

      For many photographers, a tripod is more of an inconvenience; something else to lug around and carry that is never used. Often it is relegated to the closet filled with gadgets seldom used. Most of the time people tend to ‘run and gun’ or ‘skoot and shoot’ with their photography. They have their cameras in

    • Camera Basics - Lens Filters – Choosing the Right One for the Right Image

      Lens Filters – Choosing the Right One for the Right Image

      Of all the digital camera accessories lens filers are one of the best tools in a photographers camera bag. Lens filters and camera hoods should be an important part of any photographer’s camera bag whether professional or amateur. Lens filters can include polarising filters that reduce glare and improve the saturation of the shot, or

    • Camera Basics - Picture File Formats in the Digital Age

      Picture File Formats in the Digital Age

      A subject that never came up prior to the technological advance of digital photography was file formats for photos. The arguments and debates were about film types, speeds, size, and companies along with the development and lab processing of each. Today we hear about file formats. Should I shoot RAW, JPEG, RAW + JPEG, etc.?

    • Camera Basics - Choosing a Good DSLR Lens

      Choosing a Good DSLR Lens

      While most people concentrate on which camera to buy, which tripod to get, which lighting gear should be purchased, all the other accessories that go along with digital photography, most don’t have the foggiest clue when it comes to choosing the glass on the front of their cameras. Almost all professional photographers will agree that

    • Camera Basics - Image sharpness 101

      Image sharpness 101

      Are your photos lacking sharpness? Do they come out blurry? Did you spend hard earned cash on a new SLR camera, only to discover that your old compact outperforms it in sharpness? Well, if this sounds like your case, don’t worry you are not alone! I had similar experience years ago when I bought my