Exposure, Metering and 18%G Grey Explained

Great explanation on Reflective and Incident Metering and How 18% plays a roll.

10 Quick And Easy Tips To Improve Your Photography

What to do when there’s too much light?

When To Disable Autofocus

Spectacular Night Shots In 5 Easy Steps

How to Correctly Expose An Image

The Idiot’s Guide To Camera Settings

Learn a little something about your camera settings...

What Is Bulb Mode? Where Is It Used?

Great for night shots...

Your Camera’s Settings: P mode

Nice Mode to start but you want to get into Manual modes as quick as you can...

Your Camera’s Settings: Shutter Priority Mode

If somethings moving and you want to stop it, Shutter Priority Mode is nice...

Your Camera’s Settings: Aperture Priority Mode

As far as the Priority Modes, Aperture Priority Mode is the place to be...

Manual Mode: A Primer

Manual, the only way to shoot...

Which mode is better? Aperture priority or shutter priority?

Aperture and Shutter Priority Modes are much better then using "Auto Mode" Try it, you'll like it...

DTown/TV All Things DSLR

Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski do a great job with DSLR Cameras

Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro (High Dynamic Range) Explained

The Art of Photography.com

The link provided by Mike has some great video on photography techniques. Highly recommend viewing.

Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO Simulator

This is a great interactive site to show the differences between using the Aperture (regulates the amount of light admitted through the lens for depth of field), Shutter Speed (regulates image exposure, the amount of time the light is allowed through the lens) and the ISO (the cameras light sensitivity).

Inspiration from Bil Zelman

Nailing Your Exposures, Part 3

Nailing Your Exposures, Part 2

Nailing Your Exposure, Part 1

Great Info...

This site really help in explaining how a digital camera works.
Click Here.

Dominik's Xmas Photos

Photo from trunk or treat (Rambo Jr.)

Buying A New Lens?? Focal Length Compairson

The attached link will direct you to a great site that shows the difference between lenses of differing focal length.   http://www.usa.canon.com/app/html/EFLenses101/focal_length.html

Logan, The Sky Angel Cowboy

Beach Trip

We had talked about a trip down to the beach to do some shooting. The dates we were talking about was Nov 2nd or the 16th. It turns out Nov 2nd would be best for me. I have a wedding on the 15th and a family event on the 16th. It's getting dark around 6:00 PM now and I think time changes this weekend so that means it will be getting dark around 5:00 PM. I'd like to keep it a little simpler. Rather than getting someone to go along with us so we can take their photos we can do it ourselves or find someone on the beach that would like to have their picture taken. I want to spend some time on landscape photos as well. So let me know if you are interested in going and if that date and time would be OK.

Bob

Waiting At The Beach

Quick Picasa Video

This is a clip I dumped into the free Picasa software mentioned in the post below. It took less than five minutes to make the video and synch it to one of my favorite songs..

Free Foto Processing Software

For the past two years, I have been using Google's free Picasa software. Two weeks ago they released their latest version 3.0. This works only on computers using Windows operating systems. It can be downloaded for free at:

http://picasa.google.com/#utm_source=en-all-more&utm_campaign=en-pic&utm_medium=et

The reasons I like Picassa are:

First, it's absolutely free - but I hear that in six months they'll start charging for it. It's simple to use, handles cropping, red-eye removal, blemish removal, lighting changes, special effects - all the simple things that make photos better - and without any training. It organizes all the pictures on your computer the first time you launch the program. It makes e-mail pictures very simple - and automatically converts a 2 mb picture to an 80k picture when you e-mail them. It automatically looks for cameras and disks, etc, to import pictures directly into your computer - and lets you name them into an identifible folder for later use. Finally, preserves a copy of your picture that you can always recover.

I recommend you give it a try if you want simple foto management for your Windows computers. Please give us your feedback so everyone will know your experience.

The YouTube video here explains what you can do with Picasa ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskC6c_5L1M