Photographing lightning is certainly an activity that can give a lot of satisfaction and can allow us to take home a shot that is envied by many. However, photographing lightning can also be VERY dangerous. Lightning strikes unpredictably and it is NOT true that lightning never strikes in the same p...

Halloween is one of the best occasions to take scary photos of yourself, your children or pets. However, there are a few things to keep in mind when it comes to Halloween photography. In fact, taking a Halloween photo can be a difficult task due to the often prohibitive shooting conditions. For this...

Black and white adds a timeless, artistic appeal to an image. We see and live in a world of colors. This is how we evolved, and this is what we know. Naturally, people are drawn to color photography like children to candy, drawn to images full of vitality. Our affinity for color can also manifest it...

Documenting home life and capturing family moments is what inspired many of us to pick up a camera. But when we picked up a camera, we discovered how challenging it is to capture those moments. Below you'll find some tips that, in the end, are what I've used over the years to capture my images, my m...

One of the most important things to consider when taking a photograph is exposure . A photo that is too light or, conversely, dark and dark (unless it has not been deliberately made with creative flair) is an image penalized by a defect in exposure. A photograph is said to be correctly exposed when ...

I've always been a fan of mysteries, whether they're books, movies or TV series. Stories that investigate a mystery or a heinous crime fascinate me. As a photography enthusiast, I have always found all the work done by the Scientific Police particularly intriguing, which in the USA has provided a gr...

Maybe it's Pulcinella's secret, all right, but the success of a portrait very often depends on the ability we have to get involved in our subject. We learn to interact, we will take a better portrait The beauty of photography is that it is not an exact science, but which, fortunately, has a strong c...

In this fourth lesson of our virtual photography course we talk about one of the most important components of our camera: the sensor . The sensor is a photosensitive medium that converts the light captured by the lens into an electric charge, translating it into electronic signals. Before the advent...

A photograph is made of light and color . These are the only two ingredients. Knowing how to dose them in a wise way allows you to go from an ugly or normal photograph to a fantastic image. Understanding light is therefore necessary for a photographer to best express his idea and move from a simple ...

The use of framing, or framing, is one of the easiest techniques to apply to improve your photo and consists of enclosing your subject in a frame. It's a creative composition, which can help you take your photos from snapshots to works of art. One trick that is sure to make your images pop is framin...

Lens is a generic term for an optical device capable of collecting and reproducing an image. The lenses of cameras and digital cameras consist of a series of lenses which have the task of concentrating light on the focal plane and on the sensor (before digital it was film). These lenses are made of ...

Bulb pose , also called Bulb , is a particular shooting mode present on almost all digital cameras, especially SLR and mirrorless . It takes this name in reference to the pneumatic shutter bulb used at the dawn of photography. You will have happened a few times to shoot completely in manual or in sh...

When you think of autumn, what comes to mind? Colorful leaves, intense colors, a blazing fire, a cozy sweater and pumpkins galore. The challenge for food photographers is to capture all of this, because the best photography appeals to our memories, bringing back the smells, sounds and feel of autumn...

    In this second ideal lesson of our photography course, we will see together the different types of analog and digital cameras. The advent of digital has created quite a few "problems" for budding photographers: if in fact it was quite easy to buy an analog model, the same cannot be sai...

      As the saying goes, " no one is born learned " and therefore the error is a constant presence in our photographic journey. Fortunately, by practicing photography constantly, it is very easy to improve quickly and correct our mistakes, even if sometimes we have to pay a penalty f...

      Autumn, which is often considered a difficult season due to the end of summer and the holidays, the onset of the first cold weather and often gray and rainy days, is actually the favorite season for photography lovers . For a photographer, autumn is the season of bright colours ...

      The word "photography" derives from the composition of 2 words in Greek: photo (phos) and graphy (graphis), therefore literally "photography" means drawing with light. The latter is therefore the essential element to be able to take an image, without it we could not speak of pho...

  It's frustrating to be a good photographer but not know what to do with your skills - you can know your camera inside out, be able to compose a good photo and capture a great moment, but without vision , you'll always feel aimless like I photograph. You'll be stuck taking pictures that don't ...

Making a photograph with a white background was one of the first challenges I set myself when I started to get passionate about this beautiful art. Trying to recreate that magical advertising atmosphere, where the subject is highlighted thanks to the strong chromatic contrast with the background, is...

  In the early history of photography, all images were black and white . If in the early years this was due to the non-existence of supports that allowed the creation of color photographs, for a long time black and white photography resisted thanks to the higher cost of color supports.   N...