Learning to Focus in Photography
There are three elements of a photograph that I consider more important than any other. I consider them such because I feel you have to nab them right at the moment you take the shot – not afterwards...
View ArticleHow To Clean Your Camera Lens
No matter how careful you are with your lenses, no matter how paranoid you are about keeping the glass clean, there’s always going to come that time when you will need to get out the cleaning gear and...
View ArticleMonitor Calibration: Using a Spyder4Pro
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another rather important topic that I feel I must write about, one that I find often overlooked by new (and even more experienced) photographers: monitor calibration What...
View Article10 Tips For Photographing Children
// ]]> Photographing children is something we all take for granted. We normally point a camera at a child, ask them to say “cheeeese”, make some funny faces at them, they smile and viola! we have...
View ArticleDo You Store Your Camera In A Dry Cabinet?
On buying my first DSLR, during the time I began to take photography seriously, many people urged me to immediately buy a dry cabinet to store my new camera equipment in. Some of you probably know...
View ArticleAn Interview With Alastair Cook
// ]]> The following is an interview with Alastair Cook, conducted by Michael Stewart of the Interactive Design Institute An award winning artist, Alastair Cook works with lens-based media focusing...
View ArticleTips To Get The Best Out Of Your Camera
The following is a guest post by Lynne Austin, exclusive to pixelogist You love to take photographs but you think you need a professional expensive DSLR camera for those perfect shots? Wrong! An...
View ArticleTop 5 Places To Photograph Before You Die
Everybody has ambitions, and most of us will want to see the natural wonders that our world has to offer. But I could bet, with almost complete certainty that every photographer; either an amateur or...
View ArticlePhotography: Documenting A Reality Or Constructing A Fallacy?
Photography, it seems, is accompanied by the assumption that everything depicted within the medium is an automatic truth. A reasonable assumption to make as photography, in it’s essential...
View ArticleWedding Photography: Rain Isn’t Always A Disaster
Many a spring bride fears rain on her wedding day, but precipitation doesn’t necessarily mean you’re doomed! In fact, the Italians believe that rain on the wedding day is a sign of good luck! Not only...
View ArticleHow Photographers Can Promote Their Work With Social Media
// ]]> Gone are the days when photographers had to hope for a lucky break or try to get discovered. With the advent of social media, it’s easier than ever to show off your work. The bad news is,...
View ArticleHow To Take Good Landscape Shots
Landscapes have the ability to take your breath away, to clear your mind and to give you inspiration. Think about landscapes you’ve seen that have made an impression on you – I bet you can think of at...
View ArticleGreat Tips For Sports Photographers
Photography is storytelling, and sport is a story that’s spontaneously unfolding. It’s up to the sports photographer to decide what story to tell. Depending on where they choose to aim their camera,...
View ArticlePanasonic Lumix LF1: First Look
Alright, here we go, another premium compact camera adding to the multitude already available in the current camera market, and today I have for you the newest Lumix compact by the guys at Panasonic:...
View ArticleAt First Sight: A Short Film Shot on a Lumix GH3
Today I’ll be going a bit outside the pixelogist box of sorts, and talking about this very cool little movie project that was shared with me recently. Yes, I know, pixelogist doesn’t usually do video;...
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