Thinking ahead to Halloween

Happy Friday.  We are only two weeks away from Halloween. If you need ideas for carving your pumpkin, click here to see some carvings on Flickr. Taking pictures of your pumpkin Take a spooky picture of your carving by lighting the candle inside and turning out the lights.  Compose your image to fill the frame [...]

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Camera features: Image Stabilization

Image stabilization Image stabilization is a feature found in newer cameras that compensates for camera shake (blurry photos) that occurs at slow shutter speeds.  I always recommend hand-holding your photos only at shutter speeds of 1/60 seconds and faster.  With image stabilization, you can usually get away with going about 1 stop slower.  Be aware [...]

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Forcing a P&S camera into low-light mode

It looks like most of my blog readers have a digital point and shoot camera.  This is great because this blog was created for those of you who just want to take better photos, but do not want to get into the nitty gritty details of photography.  I am going to do a series of [...]

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