One question  often received regards how to take pictures showing an element of purposeful blurring, especially involving sports and water.  I was recently honored to speak on the subject at the DPI-SIG camera club meeting in Naples.  A few of the points I covered on this sometimes tricky subject were: What’s Going On?- low light [...]

Don’t worry about the basis for the scientific acronym but rather how things work.  For some reason I find that people often confuse their ISO setting with shutter speed.  Here’s the lowdown: The lower your ISO the less sensitive your camera is to light and the amount of associated grain tends to be less too.  [...]