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• More of flash usage: navigating the controls – A12

  September 18 2009 - Photo Technical

  Photography = painting with light.  We’ve learned to control light using combinations of aperture, shutter, and the ISO (formerly film speed) settings, but we can also use the built in flash.  Actually, when it gets dark we have to use the camera flash for the light by which to paint our photograph.

• Make lighting judgments in a flash – A11

  September 18 2009 - Photo Technical

  Last time the topic was composition and there will be more on that at future ports of call.  Consider whatever is discussed, it is all to help you creatively take better pictures.  Now let’s come back to that primary subject of controlling light, this time using your cameras’ built in flash.

• A photo composition guideline: Think in thirds – A10

  September 18 2009 - Photo Technical

  Note that in this photograph neither the lighthouse nor the horizon are centered Previously I discussed the importance of foreground interest in taking better seascape (and landscape) photograph.  It could be the crest of a wave, the bow of a ship, a buoy, or anything that presents itself for you to use creatively, the idea …

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• How to make photos at sea more interesting – A09

  September 18 2009 - Photo Technical

  Photography on the water, or seascapes, are very challenging, I think more so than landscapes.  Why?  One of the compositional elements that I always try to include into my land or seascape photographs is foreground interest.

• The last word in light control: ISO setting – A08

  September 18 2009 - Photo Technical

  I have covered some very important and essential basic ground in photography, the interplay of the aperture (f-stop) and shutter speed settings.  There is the temptation, even for me, to suggest this is really just cursed technical stuff, but it’s not just that.  These are the technical resources allowing you to be a most creative …

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• Photo success a balancing act -A07

  September 18 2009 - Photo Technical

  With shutter speed increased to freeze motion, the aperture must be larger (a smaller f-stop) to let in enough light. For the last couple of columns we have been discussing how your camera is able to control light to expose the photograph you are taking.  This control revolves around the interplay between the Aperture and …

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• Learn to control shutter speed, then you can control motion -A06

  September 18 2009 - Photo Technical

  By adjusting settings properly, photographers can avoid coming back with blurry, unreadable images.   I hope you sailors are saving these photography articles. Taken issue by issue, you will learn all the basics and more.  Last time I began discussing the relationship between the aperture and shutter.  Why and how we use both to control …

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• Control the picture with shooting modes -A04

  September 18 2009 - Photo Technical

  Let’s get away form the bits, pixels, chips and dial a photo. We are about to take a journey that will explore the fundamentals to understanding how the primary controls work together to take the photograph you want to capture, so here we go.  Below is a photographic diagram of the Shooting Mode Dial on …

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