Insects can vary in size to a large extent, this means that insect photography too can vary from macro to close ups. The most important thing to remember is that we are dealing with relatively small animals here so we have to be careful not to intimidate them. Insects have very fine detail and if captured properly they can make beautiful photographic subjects. As they are so small we don’t see them in thier complete beauty on the normal course, therefore a photograph which shows lots details will be very …

Today most mobile phones have cameras built into them. The most important advantage of these are that they are very portable and available when ever you need them as most people carry their phones along with them where ever they go. The mobile cameras however have some limitations. They are made so as to be very low on power consumption. Their sensors are very small so as to keep the phones compact. The image processors that they have are very basic. They also have high noise and low frame rates.

These …

Let us understand what backlight is first, you have a subject in the fore ground and there is a bright light source in the background this light source is called the backlight and the phenomenon that makes the subject look darker is usually referred to in the photography sphere as backlight. This article is meant for the crowd that is new to photography.
Why does the subject become darker when there is  backlight?
The light from the backlight is not falling on the subject, but it is very high in intensity. …

The angle-of-view is how wide an area is seen by a given lens.
Angle-of-view is determined by two factors, the focal length of the lens, and the area of light sensitive material used to capture your image. That means, when your lens becomes longer the angle of view is reducing and the final image will contain lesser area of the image plain. This is what gives the effect of zooming in or enlarging what is being seen to a particular area of interest.

As a general case when the focal length …

Lets see the basic options one have for digital photograph storage. Like any digital data photographs also can be stored in any digital storage device. The basic division would be physical devices and virtual storage. Now physical devices can have large storage devices and small capacity. Also we can have permanent storage and erasable storage. Some examples would be storage cards, external hard drives, optical storage like blue ray discs or DVDs, online storage.
Top priorities when selecting the storage option:-

Capacity:- It is possible to take tens to hundreds of GB …

If you have to use a magnifying glass to see your subject in a photograph there is no point in that photo graph at all. Photographs are meant to tell some thing, having a lot of unnecessary things in your frame will take away the importance from your subject. This article is meant for the beginners, the aim of this article is to make the photographer understand why it is important to fill the frame right and also how to do this.
Let us take the part of why it is …

Macro simply means big, micro means small now are they both the same thing ? In fact yes the two words point to the same realm of photography. Even close up photography is the same thing. That is getting small things to fill up the whole photograph. Now the scale of working is what differentiates them.
Macro and Micro are used interchangeably for the realm of photography which aim at getting the object that is in the photograph to be the same size as the sensor. That is on a aps-c canon …

Let us take it from the basics of what super macro photography is. Super macro is referred to the photographing of subjects at a ratio of more than 1:1. Normal macro is when we shoot at 1:1 magnification ratio, that is the 1mm of the subject is produced on the sensor as 1mm. Now super macro photography is when we represent 1mm on the subject as more than 1mm on the sensor.
What does super macro photography do?
The photographs become so detailed that you can compare them to looking at …

Lets get some things cleared first, the larger the aperture the smaller the depth of field that means the smaller the f stop the smaller the depth of field.  I repeat in bold
Large aperture = Small DOF
Small Fstop  = Small DOF
So what does that mean when u are using say 2.8 Fstop on your macro lens the depth that will be in focus will be less than when using say 4. I would like to look at depth of field as the volume in focus. Remember that the DOF extends …

Today most camera’s have the capacity to focus, that is previously there were cameras that had an infinite preset focus but today any camera selling above 50- 60$ have an auto focus system. Auto focus is a system where the focusing lens arrangement is repositioned to attain a focus image, by the camera itself to get a sharp image.�
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Auto Focus Sytem
The above image shows the standard auto focusing system in a very simplified diagram. This is the system that most DSLRs implement. Such a system is expensive dues to …