It's been awhile since I wrote a blog post. So, here goes...in this post we will look at how to take great Silhouettes. Silhouettes Silhouettes are a lot of fun and can give a great visual impact which we may not see often. Our eye has great ability to be able to pick up details in dark and bright areas at the same time, which cameras can't do. You will either have under exposed (too dark) or over exposed (too bright) photos. Anyway, to create a silhouette all you need is your camera, subject and light source. The main objective is to under expose our photos to create a silhouette. Equipment...

Dubai the Land of Riches, is absolutely amazing. The land of sand, oil, gold and magnificent landscapes. I had the opportunity to stop over in Dubai during a work trip so spent two nights in Dubai in June 2011. Which is not a ideal, as it's a hot city as it is, but in June it's ridiculously hot. If you are a frequent user of your camera and shoot a lot of photos you would know that Summer is not a good time to shoot in anywhere. Why? Because of the haze in the air during summer's hot weather. So there was only limited times where you can take some good shots. Shoot early in the morning or...

Flowers are always an interesting subject to shoot. You can play with depth of field (DOF), Macro, Water drops and lighting. This weekend I spent half a hour playing with some flowers that my wife had bought. I wanted to try something with lighting and particularly with one light. I used my speed light Nissin DI622 (which has been hacked to trigger with radio trigger. Mod Di622 Speedlight). As you gathered from the title of this post, the flowers will be lit from the back, but because the speed light flash burst is so strong being a small source of light, I wanted to turn that into a big...