Iceland Aurora Photographic

So you have the night photography bug. You sit twiddling your thumbs in the daylight hours waiting for the light to fade so that you can go out and leave your camera perfectly still with its shutter open for many tens of minutes. You are not alone!!

The rules of composition are guidelines for producing a well designed image. 'Guidelines' are probably a better description than 'rules' as they just help us as a kind of starting point. Do not break the rules until you are an expert at following them. You need to understand how they work and how they help you create great compositions. Learn the rules and then break them only if it will create a better image than if you followed them.

There are many reasons why you might want to crop an image. You might want to make a smaller file size, you might have straightened an image and you need to correct it,or maybe you want to improve the composition.

Photography is all about communication. Communicating a scene or an object is similar to communicating in writing. It makes more sense if there is an order. Sentence take if we a...  Sorry, if we take a sentence and jumble the words up, it has the same contents, but the meaning is lost.  At the other extreme a poet can arrange the words to provoke feelings and thoughts outside of the sentence. In a visual way a photographer has to arrange the subjects/ objects in a scene so that they make sense, and artists will arrange object/ subjects in a scene to provoke emotions.

This site is all about creating great images from a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex camera). So what should you look for if you are buying one?

The question is very pertinent as there are a lot of very good DSLRs on the market these days. Ten years ago, it wasn't even worth buying the best DSLR because the quality didn't compare to film. But in many ways, digital technology has surpassed film.

Were you seriously expecting a blog post to cover the topic of landscape photography?