CPC Blog :
Exposure Bracketing: Why And When We Need It
July 29, 2021 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Often when shooting landscapes or cityscapes we’re faced with a scene which presents us with a challenge; How can we capture such a wide range of tones, from light to dark, in the same exposure? Typically, the only way to do this is with Exposure Bracketing.
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10 Tips For Successful Silhouettes!
May 12, 2021 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
When faced with photographing our subject in front of a bright background, we often end up with the background perfectly exposed but our subject a silhouette.
If this has happened to you and you purposely planned to capture a silhouette, then good for you, you probably don’t need to read the rest of this article. If however, you captured a silhouette by accident and want to know how it happened so you can do it again, or perhaps NOT do it again, then read on.
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Phone Photography Pointers
August 13, 2020 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Many of us have DSLR or Mirrorless cameras yet we all turn to our phone camera at times simply because it’s always with us and let’s face it, it’s just quicker and easier to share right away from our phone.
Having a collection of go-to Apps will help take your phone photography to the next level, the Apps are your tools and you’ll use the one that will give you the look you’re after. The choices are endless but here are a few of our favorite capture and editing apps.
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10 Tips For Landscape Photography
June 25, 2020 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
The key to an engaging landscape image is to photograph visually interesting scenes, convey a sense of depth, have foreground interest and use strong compositional elements. Review these 10 tips for stronger Landscape shots.
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Editing Your People Pics
May 16, 2020 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Whether you are taking casual family & friends’ photos or capturing professional style headshots and portraits, having the skills to edit them will make your images stand “head and shoulders” above the rest, pun intended.
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Correct Exposures VS Creatively Correct Exposures by Bryan Peterson
September 29, 2017 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Did you know that most picture taking situations have at least six possible combinations of f/sops and shutters speeds that will ALL result in the ‘same’ correct exposure? Furthermore, did you also know that despite having six possible correct exposures only one, maybe two, would be the ‘creatively’ correct exposure?
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