Introduction to DSLR photography

Teaching yourself photography

Exposure ...>
White Balance
So what is white balance and why won’t auto white
balance do. The foundations of what white balance is and why we should
use it, expanded with
other articles.

Choosing the white balance setting to use
how to use the camera settings

Setting and using PRE The PRE setting within white balance allows us to
get the most accurate colours - we look at how to use
it.

Exposure and White Balance Targets

Other steps we can take on white balance
Other ways to manage colour and other approaches.

The K values of light a table
of colours of different
types of light.

Photographing sunsets
- Technical Tip.
How to get the full effect.
Photographing Sunsets -
a more detailed explanation.
Sunset
Filters
How to
Photograph Waterfalls and White Balance
Depth of Field
Depth of Field DOF
Explained

Application of Depth of Field 
Slicing
Introducing
Slicing
Depth of
Field Magic
(Project)
What we can do with Helicon
Focus

Capturing
Slices with
a Nikon DSLR

Slices - Coins

Slices - Chips

Slices - Red flower

How to Photograph Waterfalls and Depth of Field
Composition
Composing
Photographs - Introduction

Developing the Eye - The Use of Mirrors

Framing Up the Image - The Use of Framing Tools

Calculating Cut-Outs (extra information)

Guidelines On Viewing Guide (extra information)

Expanding
the Techniques - Combining mirrors and cut-outs

Perspective
Making Buildings Stand Up
Straight. Overcoming
the problem of buildings sloping
backwards

Coastal Lenses and Perspective

Spirit levels

How to
Photograph Waterfalls and Perspective
Close Up and Macro
Macro Photography

Macro or micro photography - taking things close up. Advantages and
effect. Differences in terminology between manufacturers, example images.

Macro Background System

Close-up Lenses 
Tubes & Bellows

Various ways to
get closer to the subject, options, accessories including long lenses,
teleconverters, close up lenses etc

Fotomate
Sliding Plate 
Novaflex Castel-Mini

Portraiture
A Quick Look at the Direction
of Lighting in Portraits
Introductory look at the direction a single light comes, and building from this
start point.

Pinhole Photography ...>
Panoramas
Fotomate
Sliding Plate 
Novaflex Castel-Mini

Spirit levels

3D Photography
...>
Black & White
Monochrome Photography

Monochrome Effect Filters 
Cyanotype

Duotone

Filters and the
Digital Camera filters for Black and White, polarizer's and grads, plus filters available
on some Nikon camera. Using filters in Capture NX.
Sepia

Soft
Images
Vignetting
Aerial
Kite Aerial Photography,
(KAP) its long
history, and how to undertake now.

Night Time
Photographing fireworks
Photographing carnivals with lights
Photographing fun fairs

Photographing Street scenes at night
Photographing coloured lights in forest/woodland settings
Carnivals and Illuminations

Fire
Festivals and Fire Events

Firework
Events

Special situations
Traffic Free Photography

Wildlife
Photography ...>
Landscapes...>
Identifying Photo Locations
Video Filming
Nikon Movies on a DSLR -
Effects of Settings Chosen

Water
Photographing
Waterfalls
Photographing Seawater
Photographing
Water

Water
Frozen In Time

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