Flash Photography Demystified – Part 1
Flash photography can be somewhat challenging at times. However, understanding the basic concepts of flash photography opens up a whole new world of creative possibilities. If flash photography seems [...]
Lightroom – White Balance settings for RAW and JPG
If you have JPG files in your archive in addition to RAW data and you process the images in Lightroom or Adobe Camera RAW (ACR), you may have noticed [...]
What is Distortion?
No, it wasn't the masons who distorted this wall. It was just the lens. It is a wide angle zoom lens 16 - 35 mm / 1:2.8. As you [...]
Blurry Foregrounds
Blurred backgrounds are very popular. Especially for portraits, whether of people or animals, but also for many other motifs, a blurred background can direct the viewer's gaze to the [...]
50 Years of Photography – A Personal Retrospect
50 years ago I got my first camera. No, I didn't buy it myself. My parents eventually gave in to my pestering. It was my cousin Helmut's fault, the [...]
Useful Filters for Digital Photography
In digital photography, most of the filters we used in the analogue era have become obsolete. This is especially true for the different color correction filters that were common [...]
Photo Locations: Carnival in Venice
Venice is without question always worth a visit. But the carnival offers even more photo opportunities than usual. Of course we are talking about the costumed people that are [...]
Color Key – Quick & Dirty
Black and white photos with a colored element in it, so-called color key photos, were already popular in the 1980s. After that it became a bit quiet around these [...]
Photographing the Moon
In our beginner courses the question with which camera settings one photographs the (full) moon comes up again and again. The participants almost always think that you need a [...]
Yet Another 2020 Photography Trend
While researching the subject of photo trends 2020 we came across another interesting thing: candid compositions. The English-German dictionary translates candid with "sincere", "honest", "unapologetic". This naturally raises the [...]