New Digital SLR

You’re probably just sitting there at home just wondering on how people take up all of these beautiful close up shots of different things. This is what we call macrophotography, in other words: Close-up photography (why it’s not called microphotography completely puzzles me) This type of photography depends on the details of what we usually don’t look at. Just look at the petals of a flower, what do you see?

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Imagine being able to look back at every single day from the past year. Imagine being able to recall what happened that day by having that one simple image to capture the moment. Just take a deep breath and relax. When you look at a picture that you’ve taken, don’t you feel that sudden rush that infiltrates your mind when you see that specific arrangement of colors on a piece

Taking shots during a party that you were invited to is probably one of the hardest challenged that you will ever go though while enjoying this art we call photography. When you go to a party, you run the risk of getting drunk, getting things lost, or even just not even taking any pictures at all, but we aren’t going

Everyone goes through what we call a “drought” or a period of insignificance where no work seems to come in, ideas are all dry and you just don’t feel like picking up your camera at all. Sometimes you want to just throw yourself at the wall out of boredom, or just break your tripod in half out of anger, maybe you just feel like your equipment isn’t up to date,

“I see a light… Am I dead?”

Don’t count on it.

Today, we’ll bring out a definition that I have been longing to post about, namely: Aperture.

Dictionary.com says:

ap⋅er⋅ture
/ˈæpərtʃər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ap-er-cher] Show IPA
–noun
1. an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc.
2. Also called aperture stop. Optics. an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

In reality, aperture is more

Oh man, I’m so excited! I’m gonna take a picture of the sun!

Well, that’s what happens when you get overexposed pictures. (This is a worst case scenario, so don’t expect to get a full white screen…and never expect to get…The Beatles… in it as well)

In reality, exposure is what you need to worry about in pictures. most pictures undergo special treatment

I know you’ve been there: the perfect shot just slips away as you grab your camera, and what do you get instead? Some old guy eating ice cream. Great.

Seriously though, even after all these years, photography isn’t perfect. For example:

• Weather affects battery life. We should never forget this fact.
• Lighting affects automatic shutter speed.
• Direct flash can cause color loss. It’s best to bounce the flash, but I’ll get into that later.
• You

These are the moments when eenie-meenie-miney-mo’s are completely useless. I mean, you aren’t shooting a bullet in the dark here, am I right?

In choosing your “dream” camera, you have to keep these in mind:

1. Necessity: WHY Do you need a camera? Are you just gonna buy it to brag it? Or do you want to capture the true essence or reality, the mood, the aura of every single aspect of life,

“Great, I’ll get going and try to-”

Now now, not so fast, we can’t have you running amuck with next to no skill in photography, you might miss a scandal of Miley Cyrus! We can’t have that happen, can we? We have to learn how to take a picture first.

Alright, first thing’s first, get ready to take the hardest step in photography: Taking pictures.

You see that there button positioned, usually, at

Shh… I hear something…

-Shutter Click-

“Aww, someone blinked! Let’s try that again!”

Have you ever, seriously, have that happen to you? When people are taking group pictures, and you just somehow HAVE to retake a picture just because someone blinked? That’s nice for you, because I’ve never had that happen to me before. Why? I just never seemed to care enough. But this blog isn’t about me, it’s about the little “magic