All Entries Tagged With: "shutter"

What is Shutter Speed?

Often times it’s good to have a quick definition of a term or component of photography to use as reference. This way you don’t have to be embarrassed not to know. Today we discuss…quickly…
Shutter Speed
One of the main components of exposure, shutter speed, is the rate at which the shutter, opens and closes [...]

When to Use Auto Exposure Mode

Can you get great results from your camera if you’re still shooting in auto exposure mode?
The short answer is yes. Perhaps the real question is why would you want to use full auto exposure?
There are only a few reasons to use the full auto exposure on your camera in my opinion.

When there doesn’t appear [...]

Weekend Perusing

Jim M. Goldstein wrote a great reminder article over at Digital Photography School about 5 questions to ask yourself before tripping the shutter. Think of it as a mental check list to run through your head.
Our friend Brian Auer at Epic Edits Weblog posted a good article earlier this week on why you should use [...]

Film and Photography Today

Here at Your Photo Tips almost every article written pertains to digital photography. Most photographers out there are using digital cameras to capture their images. But how many of you out there still shoot film? I confess to not having picked up my old film camera in quite some time. You don’t [...]

6 Tips to Getting Super Sharp Photographs!

There are several things that occur while taking a photograph that can produce unwanted results. Often I will find images would have been much better had they just been sharp! Sometimes we can use blur to our advantage, but when we don’t need it, well we just don’t need it. Here [...]