Nikon D800 | Tokina AT-X 16-28mm F2.8 Pro FX | ISO 400 | 1/640 sec | F2.8 Photo: Abby Ferguson Understanding shutter speed, aperture and ISO can be overwhelming for beginner photographers. Even once ...

Welcome to another edition of Let’s Talk Photography! This week I’d like to share my thoughts on shutter speed. As we’ve discussed previously, the most important thing to learn in photography is the ...

Photography is much more than pointing a camera and pressing a button. This is something you realize soon after getting your hands on a serious shooter. Maybe you stumbled upon your smartphone’s ...

Last week I talked about aperture, depth of field and how to use them to your advantage. Today is about aperture’s kissing cousin: shutter speed. Like aperture, shutter speed controls the amount of ...

Photography has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last half century. Steven Sasson developed the first digital camera for Eastman Kodak in the mid-'70s, but that model was larger than ...

New photographers don’t have to go straight from auto to full manual mode without training wheels. Shutter priority mode is one of three semi-auto mode that mixes the best of auto and manual together.

Okay, I just recently got an XTi and have a 50mm lens for it that arrived today. I was trying it out and have run into something I'm at a loss to explain. This could very well be because I'm new to ...

Everybody seems to be obsessed with the ‘cinematic’ look these days, especially with regard to the 180-degree shutter rule – or for those shooting digital, setting the shutter speed to double that of ...

Still playing with the settings on the D750, my first FX. On the D7000, I kept it at base ISO for day shoots and of course this works out most of the time when it's clear. But in the course of ...