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Today I thought I’d show you guys what a difference just a few hours and a shift in angle can do for your photo. Must say I was quite impressed by it myself when I looked back at it. So here is the picture Took it yesterday during one of my nightly walks. It’s shoot through a fence as you can see. The earlier picture This…

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about using or not using flash. But back then I was only able to show you guys with pictures the difference between using and not using, while not actually explaining why it was like this. And to be honest, it was because I didn’t know why; now I do. It’s all about shutter speed. To put it simple: The…

Back when I had just bought my Canon Digital IXUS 870 IS I was really bad at this. Sure a beginner, but I mean, a clear nice photo, what was that? Using the correct settings? Never heard of it. And there was my biggest problem, I was to shaky. Didn’t really mater what kind of picture I was taking it never turned out good. Then I got…

So today I’ll be bringing up something that I learned quite recently. A mistake I managed to do more then once and would probably keep doing if my girlfriend didn’t point it out to me. It’s about the corners of some on my photos. When I initially took these pictures I couldn’t see the mistake on them and I suppose that comes with an…

Today I want to bring up something that is so dreadful that it might actually kill you while reading. Nah, just kidding, but perhaps paying attention to this will spare your photos this dreadful fate. So what am I talking about? Yeah, digital noise. That is probably one of my worst enemies so far, not counting bad focus. But by…

The best advice I can give you about getting to know your camera, is what I was told my myself as a beginner: “read the manual”. And to be honest, there is no way I can explain your camera better than the manual can. But if you’re like me, and your camera is 2 years old and you’ve had it around while moving around; in short, if you lost…

A point and shoot camera? I’ve never heard of it, until today. Yet, I’ve had one for 2 years soon. Yeah, I’m talking about the compact camera. The smaller and easier to handle camera out there. So why will I be using this camera to start with? Well, being the only camera I have available for myself to use at the time, it’ll be the…