When you take a picture not everything will be in focus. You may hear a lot said about “depth of field”. Don’t be confused by this terminology – it’s easy to understand and, used correctly, will help your images have more impact.
It's always a struggle going out in bad weather. Cold days and nights, rain, fog and that welcoming warm fire at home. But, if you can overcome the temptation to stay at home then you could get some great images.
Consumers have been pretty receptive to the lower priced "point and shoot" models (some 5 million digital cameras were sold in the U.S. during the Christmas 2005 holiday season), but there are still some holdouts.
To learn more about the camera we need to learn about the optic, since this is what capture the light and makes it possible for you to see the final version. The optics function is both to concentrate the light on the sensor, but also to spread it over the whole sensor so not just the center pixels get light.
Photographers have been trying to utilize the light of the moon in their landscape photography ever since the photographic process was invented. It was not until World War II, however, that technology had improved enough to make night photography possible.
This tutorial is more of one related to composition than to a specific technique. The Rule of Thirds is a principle of composition used for centuries by artists and photographers.