CreativePro have completed the last part of their Digital Camera Buying Guide series which would help you to choose the best digital camera for your need.

Part 1: Budget, SLR vs. point-and-shoot, and resolution; This very first installment of their guide has a detailed discussion of all of the issues and considerations you need to make when hunting for a digital camera.

Part 2: Exposure controls (program modes, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, and ISO); After considering cost, category, and resolution, now it’s the time to look at the exposure control of your next digital camera. Here they try to answer common questions such as how much manual control do you want? Is automatic white balance important? And does film speed matter in a film-less camera?

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Shaun Quinlan has written an interesting tutorial on photographing moving vehicles. In the tutorial he explains about the equipments and the process he used to capture the images in the article, and provide you with enough insight to get out on the road, using your camera in a new way.

>> Visit Photographing Moving Vehicles tutorial

elephantstaircase.com has an article on how you can turn a ‘disposable ‘digital camera which normally costs you around 10 bucks into a camera that you can use over and over, just like a normal digital camera.

Visit Ten Dollar Digital Camera

Canon has added some new online tutorials for its DSLR users. The new Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP) 2 Tutorial website will give you new insights into the powerful capabilities of Canon’s premiere RAW workflow solution.

The tutorials are available in Quicktime movie format and has two sections; Section one provides explanations and examples of all key DPP features; Section two demonstrates those capabilities within a stimulated, but realistic workflow scenario

Thinsite.net has a neat tutorial on High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, from capturing HDR shots properly, merging the bracketted shots into a single HDR exposure using Photomatix and the post processing steps in Photoshop.

Click on the image above to enter the tutorial site..

Harald Edens has some great tutorials on digital weather photography. His site is a great starting point on techniques used for photographing atmospheric optics, lightning and other atmospheric electricity, clouds, auroras, eclipses, star trails etc.

>> Visit Weather Photography Techniques

Looking for some inspirations to help you have fun with those summer memories? Here are some tips and photo inspirations to take better summer photographs..

I’m gonna TICKLE you… by nascity

SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS

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Photocritic.org have some pretty useful tips for taking better photos at a live band concert. So here’s what the author has to say regarding the tricky light conditions on most live band concerts.

“Second, observe. Concert lighting move in patterns, and you need to try and snap the photo of once the lighting is exactly right.

Always shoot in fully manual. It’ll be too dark for your auto focus, and the rapidly changing lights mean that your light meter is worthless. You need to be good, but your instincts will save you. If you can’t “feel” how a photo is going to turn out before you look at your digital display at the back of the camera, perhaps you aren’t ready for concert photography quite yet. There’s no shame in that - just keep practicing. “

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As a digital photograher, understanding white balance is important to be able to take better photos with the right colors under a wider range of lighting conditions by avoiding color casts created by your camera’s Auto White Balance (AWB). Cambridgeincolour.com have a very useful tips and tricks article for understanding white balance.

“Under mixed lighting, auto white balance usually calculates an average color temperature for the entire scene, and then uses this as the white balance. This approach is usually acceptable, however auto white balance tends to exaggerate the difference in color temperature for each light source, as compared with what we perceive with our eyes.”

Maximum Sharpness - Beginning Photography Basics

All photographers at some point were completely ignorant when it came to photography. Think about that. At one time even Ansel Adams could not tell you the difference between an F-stop and a dark slide. At some stage of a photographer’s life something happens to spark the passion and drive to improve. Quite often beginning photographers focus their education on exposure, depth of field, film types, etc., and overlook the most basics of photography; one of which being creating sharp images.

I cannot tell you how many times a photographer has emailed a digital image, or shown me a print, of an image they have produced - of which they want feedback. Many of them have been creatively composed, perfectly exposed, matched with the right depth of field, but looked like there was an earthquake going on while they took the shot!

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