Colour Management 1 – why do we need colour management in our photography?

Rainbow colours with text

Colour man­age­ment is one of those top­ics that can con­fuse you very quick­ly. Every pho­tog­ra­ph­er will even­tu­al­ly stum­ble across issues with mis­matched colours, and you will find that colour man­age­ment is some­thing you have to get good at. Unless you do only Black & White pho­tog­ra­phy, in this case you can skip this arti­cle. Nice meet­ing … Read more

Control your Shutter Speed for more Impact in your Photography

Let’s have a look at the sec­ond part of the “expo­sure tri­an­gle” to get some more pho­tog­ra­phy foun­da­tion laid: Shut­ter Speed. We already learned about Aper­ture in Part I of the series: What is Aper­ture in Pho­tog­ra­phy Part III will be an upcom­ing arti­cle about ISO, and then we have all parts togeth­er. Glob­al Pho­to Club So, let’s talk about shut­ter speed. It … Read more

What is Aperture in Photography?

Pho­tog­ra­phy is a won­der­ful hob­by which teas­es and exer­cis­es your brain. You will nev­er run out of con­cepts to mas­ter, and one of the first con­cepts you will come across is ‘Aper­ture’. Every cam­era needs it to exist. You want to know if this arti­cle for you? If you do not know all the fol­low­ing in the … Read more

Common Beginner Photography Questions

Blurry Bokeh image

As a begin­ner in pho­tog­ra­phy, you often won­der why a spe­cif­ic image looks the way it does. You maybe notice that only a bit of the sub­ject is in focus, or there is a col­or shift and you don’t know how that hap­pened. Oth­er com­mon ques­tions are around motion blur (mov­ing sub­jects are blur­ry, but sta­tion­ary things are sharp in the image) and cam­era … Read more

So you have a camera, what now?

I can see you are excit­ed. You dis­cov­ered pho­tog­ra­phy in your life and you want to know more. Wel­come! But where do you start? There are so many ways to prac­tice pho­tog­ra­phy. The tech­nol­o­gy is mov­ing fast, togeth­er with the devices we use for pho­tog­ra­phy. Giv­en that we have about 3.5 bil­lion smart phone users world­wide (accord­ing to … Read more