Photography can be so much more expressive when you venture beyond point-and-shoot. For newbies stepping up to a more capable camera, such as an advanced compact, a mirrorless compact system camera, ...

Jo Plumridge is a British writer and photographer who specializes in design, travel and comedy pieces. As a photographer, she focuses on portraiture. This post was originally published on the ...

Learning even just the basics of photography takes a bit of work and one of the more complex ideas is the relationship between ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. German photography blog Photoblog ...

Photography is much more than pointing a camera and pressing a button. This is something you realize soon after getting your hands on a serious shooter. Maybe you stumbled upon your smartphone’s ...

Welcome to another edition of Let’s Talk Photography! This week I’d like to share my thoughts on shutter speed. As we’ve discussed previously, the most important thing to learn in photography is the ...

New photographers don’t have to go straight from auto to full manual mode without training wheels. Shutter priority mode is one of three semi-auto mode that mixes the best of auto and manual together.

In part one of this series you kicked your digital SLR camera's auto mode to the curb with the help of program mode. In doing so, you learned to control the flash, the ISO value, and the white balance ...

Last week I talked about aperture, depth of field and how to use them to your advantage. Today is about aperture’s kissing cousin: shutter speed. Like aperture, shutter speed controls the amount of ...

Okay, I just recently got an XTi and have a 50mm lens for it that arrived today. I was trying it out and have run into something I'm at a loss to explain. This could very well be because I'm new to ...