Just hearing the words 'white balance' is usually enough to strike fear into the heart of even the most hardened of amateur photographers. After all, it sounds so technical, so it must be complicated, right?
Depth of field refers to the area of a scene which appears focussed. It is a product of three factors - the lens aperture, the focal length, and how far from the subject we are. This article covers these three factors and looks at how we can use them to control depth of field in our photography.
Although light from the sun or from a light bulb looks white to us, it actually contains a mixture of all colors, all of which affect the color of a scene it illuminates.
Today we will be talking about the White Balance.
If there’s one thing that digital photography has no shortage of, it’s confusing vocabulary words.
Aliasing, which is a common word in the world of digital everything (video games, CGI, photography), is one of those words that everyone has heard, but may not quite understand. And the anti-aliasing feature found on many digital cameras doesn’t do much to explain why you should use it.
Not to worry though, for anti-aliasing is no where near as complicated as it may sound.