The Art of Photography

Various filter types and how to use them to enhance your photographs

Today we'll look at what's inside a lens, what elements and groups are and how it all works.

This is the beginning of a multi part series about lenses. In this first episode we'll look at prime vs zoom lenses and some of the things that go into their design.

Today we'll talk about metering with the camera's built in meeter and what all those crazy modes do.

In this episode, we discuss techniques and equipment in handheld light metering. We'll look at incident, spot and flash metering techniques.

This week we take a break from the usual planned episode to address some viewer questions.

What is ISO and why do I care? Watch this episode and find out...

Part 3 of a 3 part series. This week we talk about shutter speed and how it relates to aperture and exposure.

Part 2 of a 3 part series. This week we talk about Aperture, what it is, how it relates to exposure and how you can use it to control the look of your image.

Part 1 of a 3 part series, Episode 6 explains what exposure is and what you're looking for in an optimal exposure. Next we'll cover aperture followed by shutter speed.

In this episode, we take a look at some compositional principals of photography and discuss the rule of thirds and how its used.

By viewer request - an explanation of film formats (black and white, color negative and slide film) as well as film sizes (35mm, medium format and 4x5)

In this episode: The podcast flickr group, upcoming darkroom podcasts and the almighty Holga (and a box camera).

Pinhole photographs and cameras in several formats are looked at including Holgamods and the Santa Barbara Camera Co.

In this episode, we explore the basics of how a camera works by looking at the Camera Obscura - a model dating back to the 4th Century in Greece.