Archive for the [Playing with Pixels] Category

More and more camera and lens manufacturers are turning their attention to image stabilization – many claiming up to 4 stops. So what does all this mean?

I have to admit, regardless of how much I read on the subject I really didn’t fully understand image stabilization until I got a lens with this technology built it to it. It was only then that I started to appreciate what it could and could not do. Read the rest of this entry >>

A while ago I was confronted with a problem. Due to poor weather conditions, an event I was to photograph was moved indoors – not outdoors as expected. This meant poor lighting conditions. I couldn’t use flash and so I did the next best thing – I turned up the camera’s ISO. Read the rest of this entry >>

Someone asked me the other day, why was I shooting towards the sun. I was photographing a sports event and from where I was standing, the sun was behind the players. My answer was – I didn’t really care where the sun was. I then went on to explain… Read the rest of this entry >>