Tip for the day

Give a different look to your photographs. Search for interesting point of view to shoot. Look for new angles, this could mean getting down onto the ground to capture from a low perspective or finding a higher up vantage point to shoot from.

6 Tips for better Night Photos . . . by Gary Hendricks

Do you like to take photos at night? I know I do. There’s something magical about them – pictures of the moonlight sky and dazzling neon lights convey a special something that daytime photos can’t.


When I started out taking digital photos at night, boy, did I have problems! The issue is that many digital cameras do not perform very well under low-light conditions. To take good night photos, there are some tricks you need to remember – so here are a few of them.

Shooting from the HIP Photography . . . By George Halt

Photo captured by Rohit Tembe 

Hip shooting, which was named after gun fighting, is a photographic style described as shooting photographs from waist level without using the viewfinder of the camera to centralize the subject. This is a learned technique and can be very hit or miss while you are learning it. However, once you have the skill mastered, you will usually have some amazing photographs. This method of photography is preferred by many photographers for the unique and varied artwork that can be constructed from the photographs.

Camera Flash Guide And Features . . . By Jeffrey Kontur

Power, expressed in Guide Number (GN), is a measure of how much light the flash will produce. GN is a non-standard unit of measure. It basically tells you how far away a subject can be from the source of the flash, where the flash is the primary light source, and the subject to still be properly lit. The problem with this is that the distance can be expressed in either feet or meters. There is often no way of knowing which it is. GN also assumes ISO100 and f1.0 so adjustments will have to be made in the calculations to account for real-world conditions. For instance, f1.0 lenses are very rare and extremely expensive.




Recycle time is the time it takes for the flash to be ready to fire again after having just fired at full power. This time will vary and become longer as the charge in the batteries is used up.

Tip for the day

Try to always frame the subject in the camera so you do not have to crop the image significantly. In order to do this you may have to move closer to the subject or wait for the subject to come closer to you, example: a tree or a bird. Moving closer will increase the likelihood of disturbing the subject (if capturing a moving object) so waiting for it to come to closer to you is always better.