If you like to take your camera to a basketball, baseball games or other event that have fast action movement in low light condition and take that golden shot of a basketball dunk for example. You need a fast shutter speed and probably can’t use the flash because of the distance. The only thing left [...]

Don’t be afraid to try different and unusual framing in your photos. Cropping in unusual places, sometime can produce a very pleasant and artistic feel or just save a crappy picture with poor composition. Don’t be afraid of cropping, some people think that cropping its bad and make you a lazy photographer but it give [...]

Have you come across a situation where you are portraying someone and the sun is so harsh?  You love that background, the model is doing an excellent job but when you see the screen of your camera, you realize how horrible it out the shadows and highlight are, the contrast are too strong. Luckily we have equipment available to deal with that situation. This photo was taken at Fort San Cristobal in Old San Juan, PR at 11:45 am. For those who are from Puerto Rico know how strong the sun is at that time. To counteract the effects of the sun and to do that you only need to use the best of the best in equipment. A softbox 80”x 76”in a 10,000 watt strobe, camera right and above. Thinking that this [...]

Sometimes in photography you need to have a bit of patience and wait for that perfect moment.  Wait for that one opportunity that satisfy to make that single photo, the perfect shot you see on your head.  For this post I wanted to use my new niece Alannys.   As my first niece I’m making an [...]

  If you are just starting out in photography, I highly recommend you get a polarizing filter.  This filter comes in two forms: the circular and linear.  I recommend the circular because it is easier to use and carry.  This filter reduces glare and increases to taste, because you can adjust this type of filter.   In this case, I used the filter to cut some reflections in the water so that the rocks barely looks beneath the sea. However you can do the opposite and make the water reflects the sky and clouds.  Here I made ​​a small diagram to show the best moment where more reflections can be achieved and that is when your light source is 90 degrees from your subject. Sorry I’m not that skilled at drawing and [...]

Cinemagraphs more than a photo, but not quite a video. The first time I ever see this type of photography was almost a week ago,  I came across two amazing blog, from Jamie Beck and Coco Rocha.  They make this awesome picture that they called “cinemagraph”. The cinemagraph are simply a .gif file with more artistic feel that [...]

Almost all the camera today have the histogram.  The histogram is a graph that shows you the brightness of an image.  The left side of the histogram show how many “dark” pixels you have captured and the right side, how many “bright” pixels you have captured. The region where most of the brightness values are [...]

Long exposure photos, using a long duration shutter speed to capture the stationary elements of images while blurring or obscuring its moving elements.  Long exposures photos are easiest to accomplish in low light conditions, but can be done in brighter light using a Neutral Density Filter.  Long exposure photography is often used in the night in order [...]

The ISO in the camera control how sensitive is the sensor to the light. You can make a search to learn more about how the sensor works. This article is more about how to used it to take better pictures. In most camera the ISO start at 100, the lowest the number the less sensitive [...]