Take Better Travel Photos…

People have been taking travel and vacation pictures ever since more portable and less expensive cameras became accessible to the general public. Those early vacation slideshows were not always greeted with enthusiasm by those who’d been buttonholed to watch them. In fact, you’ve probably seen a cartoon or two about the dreaded vacation slideshow. Well, …

Getting Creative with White Balance

From Nikon Learn & Explore For well over 100 years, photographers had no choice—they had to shoot in black and white. By the mid-1900s most people could do color photography if they wanted to go to the expense and trouble. Now, color is the norm. Before digital photography, a photographer’s choice of color was determined …

Bracketing: The Creative Insurance Policy

From Nikon Learn & Explore Site Once upon a time—in the days when we shot film—bracketing was an insurance policy. It was a technique we learned from professional photographers, and they did it because it was their business to come back with the shot every time, no excuses. So when they faced tricky lighting conditions …