Well, it has taken considerably longer than the “couple of months” that I originally expected, but I am actually about 6 weeks away from having the money to replace my camera equipment and I’m still looking for suggestions about what to buy. I blame the delay on the housing market. I’ve narrowed my choices to [...]

If you had to start buying your photography equipment from scratch and you had a budget of $2000 (U.S.), what camera, lenses, accessories, lighting equipment, etc. would you buy? That’s the position I find myself in. Because of events beyond my control, I no longer have any of my camera equipment, however, in a couple [...]

Shutter Speed and f-stop settings work together in creating the exposure. The best analogy I’ve seen is to think of getting the desired exposure as a filling a bucket. It takes a certain amount of water to fill the bucket. You can pour water very quickly for a short time, or you can pour a [...]

It can be tricky trying to take a picture of a snow-covered landscape. All that bright white snow fools your camera into thinking there’s more light than there really is. To Illustrate my point, here’s a picture I took this morning (as usual, click the thumbnail to view the full-size picture): That looks kind of [...]

Those who are new to photography are likely to get lost in the blizzard of terminology and acronyms that starts when you read the owners manual for your first camera. Here is a list of terms you’re likely to run into and a (hopefully) simple explanation of what they mean. Aperture The size of the [...]