By Frank Rende Which lens should I buy? This is the question asked by a lot of camera enthusiasts. There is no one single lens for every type of photography or photographer. Some lenses are better suited for portraits, some for landscape, some for sports, and still others for close-up or macro photography. But how [...]
Before the digital age, photo restoration was not something widely available to the general public. Restorations were reserved for important works or art, and socially meaningful photographs. Art restorers at museums would make repairs directly on the original photograph by airbrushing over the damage. This method remains the preferred technique for repairing valuable historical photos, [...]
What are media cards? Yvonne Berger, one of the photography instructors at Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, explains What you need to know about media cards…
How do you select the best camera bag for your needs? Yvonne Berger, one of the photography instructors at Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, explains What kind and how many camera bags you will need. Should you have one camera bag or more than one? There answer is that you should [...]
Tripods provide great stability for your camera which will help prevent taking blurry photos. In addition, they give you the opportunity to get yourself into your photos. Yvonne Berger, an instructor with Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, New York explains how to choose the right tripod.
Aperture is one part of your exposure that allows the light to come into your camera lens. So, the aperture combined with your shutter speed are the things that give you your exposure. Adjusting the aperture value on your lens changes the opening for light to come into the camera. Aperture Settings: As you change [...]
An ISO is basically what your ASA used to be on your film. The ISO is the sensitivity of your camera to the available light. So, if you are shooting in a place where it is very bright light, like at the beach or at the park and it is a bright sunny day, a [...]
Once a beginner photographer has graduated from the automatic exposure modes on the camera the ask, “what mode should I be shooting in and what are all the ingredients that go into making up an exposure?” Four different things make up an Exposure: 1) the available light 2) the camera’s ISO (the camera’s sensitivity to [...]
Learn how to fine tune your camera’s metering. Every camera has a built in default metering mode, which is the way the camera sees the available light, and adjusts to that light. Yvonne goes into deal about manually setting each type of metering mode: Matrix Metering Center Weight metering Spot Metering
How do you select the best camera bag for your needs? Should you have one camera bag or more than one? There answer is that you should have many because there are many different occasions where you will need to have just a small bag for limited camera equipment, while on other occasions you will [...]
