F-Stop Chart

F-Stop Chart If you’re looking to learn more about F-Stops and how it effects your exposure and the look of your image, please check out our detailed article: Understanding F-Stop as part of our Photography 101 series. You Might Also Like Think You Know It All? This short downloadable quiz has been designed to help you learn more about the basics of exposure, and the three pillars of the exposure triangle. Are you ready for manual mode on your camera? Take the test!

New Freebie Download Available

Hey guys and gals, just a heads up that I’ve added a new free download to our growing list of resources. Affinity Photo is rapidly becoming the go-to photo editing solution for those that don’t want to pay for a monthly subscription as you have to do with Adobe Photoshop. I’ve added a free shortcut guide to Affinity Photo HERE alongside the one for Photo Mechanic. I’m going to keep adding to that page in the future as well, but it made the most sense to put these ones up first because nobody else is offering these! Hope some of …

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Lowepro Whistler Backpack Review

Lowepro’s Whistler line of outdoor and adventure photo packs are designed to be rugged and weather resistant for adventurous pursuits. How does it stack up to the competition? Given that I have lived in the town that the bag is named after, for over a decade, it seemed like something I should take a good long look at.

65 Inspirational Photography Quotes

Sometimes we jus need a little inspiration, and I’ve found that it can be as simple as a few quotes from some very wise people. These are my favourite ones on the subject of photography: 1. “To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson 2. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” – Elliott Erwitt 3. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – …

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Securely Erasing Your Photos Before Selling Hard Drives

I recently did an upgrade of my backup hard drives, something that every photographer will end up doing at some point. I was left with a stack of drives on my desk which I’ll sell on Craigslist or through my local buy and sell forum. They all work perfectly so I’m sure someone will want to put them to use. There’s an important step to perform before you sell any computer or hard drive, though! Erase doesn’t really mean gone.. I’m sure that everyone takes a basic precaution when they sell a hard drive, and deletes all the files and folders …

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8 Reasons you don’t want to miss this crazy deal…

1. $127 for $3300 worth of products! Well you’ve got to start with this one really don’t you? You could go and buy all of these products individually from their respective creators, but it would cost you over $3300! There’s no catch here, all of these products are the real deal, the full product. No demos or sneaky tricks like that! 2. UNIQUE content None of the products in this bundle have appeared in any other photography bundle. Ever. There’s no need to worry about duplicate content if you’ve previously purchased a similar bundle deal. You’ll get your full values …

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