by Anand Chaudhuri | Jan 7, 2015 | Photography Techniques
The word photography means, writing with light. Light is the raw material for any photograph and we want to understand how it works so we can take better photographs. We start this series with Understanding Lighting Brightness. The fundamental quality of light is its...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Jan 5, 2015 | Photography Techniques
Part 3: Understanding Tonal Contrast 18% Gray Understanding exposure metering is the final part of the series of articles on photographic exposure. Almost all cameras have automatic exposure these days and those meters perform pretty well. While that is a convenience...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Dec 26, 2014 | Photography Techniques
Part 2:Understanding Shadow and Highlight Detail In this third part of the series on photographic exposure, we deal with understanding tonal contrast. Strictly speaking contrast is not exactly about exposure, but it is very closely related. In this topic we...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Dec 23, 2014 | Photography Techniques
Part 1: Understanding Photographic Exposure Reciprocity Understanding shadow and highlight detail requires us to ask the simple question of what constitutes detail. Look at one of your photos for dark and light areas where you can gather any texture or color or form...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Dec 19, 2014 | Photography Techniques
Understanding photographic exposure reciprocity is one of the key things for a beginner photographer and it is about getting the right amount light to reach your recording media – film or digital sensor. Today’s cameras take properly auto-exposed photos most of the...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Dec 17, 2014 | Photography Techniques
Contre Jour is French for “against daylight”. We are always wowed by the flattering into the sun shot of a beautiful model. Indeed contre jour shots can be exciting opportunities to create high impact images. It can be somewhat challenging though. So here...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Dec 1, 2014 | Photography Techniques
In this post I am going to share a few tips for photographing Disney on Ice – Frozen at Izod Center, in case you are planning to see that show or a similar show. Seat Location We were seated not too close from the ice, but that wasn’t so bad for me since...
by Anand Chaudhuri | Feb 25, 2014 | Photography Techniques
Why do we need these 5 tips for wedding dance shots? More often than not wedding dance shots turn out flat, mainly because the emotion that was felt in the dance floor seems to be absent in the photograph. But who can deny the romance of the first dance? Or the...
