Who is your favorite photographer?

Normally each of us will have a role model that we follow. Whether it is your dad, mom, teachers and leaders. The same goes to photography. You will have atleast one photographer that you like and this photographer will have an impact on your photography styles. So share with us who is your favorite photographer and why you like him/her?

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Recommended photography books

Some photographer learn their photography skills from photography school. But many of us did not manage to enter photography school. Some of us enjoying photography as their hobby and some change their career from doctor, lawyer, engineer to photographer just because they love photography. So how do you get the photography skills if you are not in the photography schools? Read books and practice a lot is the best way to learn photography. Here I will mention few books that I have used and still using to enhance my photography skills.

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10 Tips to shoot better landscape

Landscape photography, one of the oldest and most popular subject for photography. Each time we saw a great landscape photos we will always tell ourself “I wish I can shoot like this” and now you can. Keep on reading my 10 tips on how to shoot great landscape photos.

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How to shoot water screen

This month, at Putrajaya, Malaysia we have the world biggest water screen show. I went out to try shooting water screen for the first time. At first I thought I can use the same setting I used to shoot fireworks. But I was wrong. For fireworks, you need to use very slow shutter speed 2 , 10 or sometimes even 30 seconds is used. But for water screen shot, I have to use faster shutter speed. The best is 1/8 and above. It was quite hard actually to get the right exposure because of the faster shutter speed.

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How to get panning effects

Panning is great way of showing the sense of motion. It is a very simple technique but difficult to master. Last week, I have post an article about exposure and mention little bit about shutter speed and panning. This week I will give you a step by step guide on how to shoot great panning effect. This post will be divided into three parts. The stuff you need, the right setting and the step by step guide.

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Exposure - Shutter speed, Aperture and ISO

When I first started photography 4 years ago, I am having trouble to understand about what is exposure. But after a while I’ve got the idea. Today I will introduce to you what is exposure and I will guide you to a simplified step by step guide on what is exposure and how to use it. This post will be divided into three sections. The first one is the general view about exposure which I have introduced to you just now and the second which I will tell you after this is about the factors or the elements that makes the exposure and the last part of the post will guide you on how each elements of exposure affects each other and how to use them effectively.

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Leading lines

In my last week’s post, I wrote about how to achieve a balanced pictures with the use of rule of third technique. This post is the next article on the composition technique series.

Leading lines is used to lead the viewer’s eye into the image or a subject in the image such as from right to left, bottom to top. This technique is best use for landscape and other panoramic sceneries.

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The rule of third

Long before the DSLR comes to life, the photographer used a very simple camera. It really test the photographer’s skills. But today half of the hardship has been reduced by the sophisticated electronic camera. The image are sharper, the exposure are more accurate. But still there is one important element to complete the best pictures criteria still cannot be done by today’s sophisticated camera and that is composition. No matter how sharp the image is, how beautiful the colour is, how accurate the exposure is, the image wont be the best if the composition part failed.

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Apple Aperture 2 Review

Aperture 2 has been released. The previous version, Aperture 1.5 was great but very slow. The RAW conversion is good but not as good as Adobe’s and it was more expensive too. With the release of Aperture 2, it has changed all that.

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How to Shoot Fireworks

Hello… So we are coming to the end of year 2007… so this will be an opportunity for photographers to take fireworks pictures.. taking fireworks pictures can be a challenge for most photographers. The challenges like exposing in the dark skies with a bright flash going on and off really test the technical camera skills of a photographer… But don’t be afraid of the challenge.. after all these challenges will enhance our photography skill.. So now let’s take a look what are the tips for taking great fireworks pictures. This tips is just from my previous experiences and I hope to hear some suggestion from you guys to..

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