Conventional wisdom has it that you should keep the background in your photos out of focus to draw attention to the subject in the foreground. Generally that’s good advice, but sometimes you might ...

I have a D40 and the 50mm 1.8 - i have the camera in aperture priority - f8. now i would like to set the focus ring to hyperfocal distance for the f8 and then use the camera as point and shoot for ...

Everyone reading this probably takes a decent photo. Smart framing. Anticipated exposure. General taste. Sprinkling of bokeh. What separates amateurs and pros, beyond a paycheck, is simple: Control.

My cameras have loads of auto focusing points which can be individually selected, but they're all clustered around the centre of the image area. In practice it's just not useful. In the heat of the ...