Photography Schools

What are RAW-format digital images?

What is a lens diaphragm and what purpose does it serve?

What is exposure? And how to control it?

Julia Margaret Cameron

An unfocused spiritual element in photography.

The Origins of Today's Famous Brands: AGFA, Canon, Konica, Leica, Kodak - How did each brand come into being in the first place?

10 ways for setting lighting in a portrait shooting

In a portrait shooting, it is important first of all to depict the individuality of the person being photographed.

How to Take Better Pictures of Children

It is the most difficult to take a picture of a newly born child nicely. Have you paid attention that all pictures of newly-born children on the back are alike? How would you take a picture of a baby in a more interesting way?

Composition Lessons

As one well-known photography school recommends, in order to get a good picture you need: to know the subject of shoot, to focus on it and to take away the unnecessary things.

Recommendations on composition

One doesn't have to arrange a picture symmetrically with the exception of cases, when building of rhythmical pictures or symmetry is a main idea.

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre Biography

Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) a French physicist and the most famous of people who invented photography.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Nicephore Niepce in 1829 signed a development contract for his heliography method with Louis Daguerre.

Key Tone

The key of image shall be determined by ratio of black, white and gray fields in it.

Red-Eye Effect

What is Red-Eye Effect and How to Fight with it.

Landscape shooting

is one of the most commonly used kinds of shooting in photography.

Shooting of Flowers and Other Plants

One can only envy to those, who takes great interest in shooting flowers. The objects for shooting are available n any time of the year: in the forest, in a botanical garden, on a flower-bed and in a flower-shop.

Shooting Sports

Sports subjects have become one of the most popular kinds of shooting among photographers -amateurs and professionals.

Shooting in rain

It is rather difficult to reproduce rain in a photo.