Cam and Cheese

Blur in your pictures can come about from a lot of different ways. Not all blur is bad. Bokeh is a term used to describe the blurry out-of-focus background in your images when using large apertures. It's a really desirable effect. However not all blur is desirable, and here are some tips to reduce that blur from your images.

Transferring pictures from your camera to your computer seems like a simple thing to do. Just connect your camera to your computer using the USB cable that came with your camera right? Wrong. There's a faster way to do it.

So you've had your fun with your new dSLR. You've learned about the body and lenses. But now you want to go onto the next challenge: Shooting in manual mode to create your own creative and wonderful works of art. There are three things that you will need to adjust - aperture, shutter speed, and ISO - the "photographic triangle".

Have you ever seen those pictures where lights would just beam with light rays? As an example, I've posted a picture to the left. The lamp post on the left was made into a bright looking "sunstar". It was not done by Photoshop, but just an adjustment in your aperture settings.