When it comes to buying new equipment you have to balance a number of factors including the price point, the quality of the gear and the reliability of the retailer. This means that deciding where to buy your equipment from can be tricky but there are some general rules you can bank on to help…
Great Reasons Why You Should Learn Photography Before Videography
There are no hard and fast rules, as with any artistic or creative pursuit, however, there are many working professionals who advise that it’s usually better to master photography before you take the leap into the world of videography. Photography will give you an invaluable grounding in the basics of composition, lighting, different types of…
Great Signs That You Are A Photophile
The word photography comes from the Greek root words of ‘photos’, which means ‘light’, and ‘graphe’ which means a ‘representation’ of something, usually using lines or by drawing. Together, the words ‘photos’ and ‘graphe’ roughly mean ‘drawing with light’. This is a quite an elegant way of describing the art of photography since the practise…
Complete Guide To Buying Camera Gear From The Grey Market
It can be extremely costly to purchase new cameras and photographic equipment and although it’s usually worth paying the top dollars for high quality gear there are occasions when you can do an end run around the domestic market and make significant savings by importing products from other markets. This allows you to easily avoid…
Complete Guide To Selecting The Best Tripod
A good, sturdy and reliable tripod is an excellent addition to your photography gear that can open up new avenues of creativity and possibilities for your work. A tripod keeps the camera dead still while you take a photo meaning that you will never have ‘shakes’ or blurs in your images giving you the ability…
Why Are Mirrorless Cameras Better?
A mirrorless camera is a type of camera that does not use a reflex mirror inside its body to direct the light onto the viewfinder and instead uses a high tech image sensor and an electronic LCD monitor to show the user a preview image. Unlike the DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera that uses…
Professional Tips For Photographing The City
Every city is a bustling hub of culture, art, business and the whole range of human activities that make up our shared experience of the world. This makes cities some of the most exciting places for photographers to work because they can really capture the heart of a civilization and the people who create it….