The Pixels in Pete's World

Advancements in digital photography used to be measured by the megapixels that its sensor can capture for each image. Thank goodness that race has ended at least in the DSLR market. Now, it’s about how good the image looks at high ISO. It’s not that I have an aversion to digital noise in an image. [...]

A portrait to match the holiday season is fairly easy  if you have a flash you can fire off-camera. But you’ll need a lens that has a wide aperture. That is often called a fast lens because the  wide opening or aperture allows you to shoot with a ‘fast’ shutter speed. Then it’s a matter [...]

When I left off on my previos post on friendly faces at the carnival, I had mentioned ambience. Once the sun sets, the carnival looks very different especially during that very brief window when the sun has set but there is still a lot of light left in the sky. Objects in the vicinity of [...]

Of the obstacles you face whenever you want to take a picture, low light is probably the toughest to overcome. Things get even dicier when your subject is moving. #3 Lighting Whenever light levels are low: you won’t have the shutter speeds needed to handhold long lenses successfully you can’t freeze the action even if [...]