Photographing Animals Q: When photographing animals, should I use single focus or continuous focus? A: This depends on whether or not your subject is moving and/or what type of shot your are trying to achieve. If you are looking to catch a bird in flight, for example, it is a good idea to go into continuous as
How To Get Sharp Subject And Background? Q: I'm using a Canon 60D and 50mm f/1.4 to take portraits but I want both the background and subject to be sharp. I've tried raising the aperture lens, but the background becomes blurred. I try not to go over ISO 320 to keep my images from being too
Q: How do you take photos indoors with low lighting, without flash? The room is low-lit, but it does have a lamp that has a warm color to it. The lamp isn't really lighting up what I want to take a picture of, (something across the room). I tried putting my ISO on 3200 but the picture
Q: I have a Canon 5D MarkII and a Canon 430EX, I want to fire the flash off camera with shutter speeds higher than 1/200th sec (high speed sync) I don't need different groups or anything fancy, what flash triggers would you recommend? A: This will be dependent on how fancy you want to get with your controls.
Q: Is there a way to get great photos of the night sky without using heavy image editing software? I have a DSLR (Canon 70d) and I have a tripod etc. But my PC is a simple netbook. I'm trying to get photos of the night sky and a lot of tutorials I have seen require a powerful
Q: I have a wedding coming up that I'm shooting in October. They are doing it about 2 hours before sunset on a shore cliff. How do I properly expose them without using flash or washing out the sky behind them during the ceremony? A: That's a tricky situation. Either the exposure will be right
Q: I dropped my camera on the ground. Everything seems to be working okay but my shots just don't seem as sharp anymore. Are there any tests I can run to see if the sharpness is still okay? A: The first step is to do some tests. Set your camera back up on your tripod
