Macro photography allows us to shoot close-up, giving us beautifully-narrowed perspective into minutest details of the subject we photograph. With a macro lens, a photographer can capture tremendous, subtlest of details that the human eye can otherwise miss. Today’s Toecabulary is about Macro Lenses.
Visit the pristine mountainous wilderness nurturing the majestic puma among other mammals and birds, and glaciers, lakes and rivers.
The eternal play of light and shadow in making the world visible to our naked eye is perceived differently by different cameras. The highlights and shadows are contained in what is called the ‘dynamic range’. This week’s Toecabulary elaborates the same.
The field of view and the focal length of the lens are inversely proportional to each other. In other words, the field of view is wider if the focal length of the lens you are using is shorter and vice versa. Today’s Toecabulary illustrates the use of wide-angle lenses.
In this Digital Filmmaking Workshop, you will learn all the artistic and technical details of the craft to create compelling video stories.
While an image of a scarlet or tangerine sunset can make you feel warm and fuzzy, an image of the sullen twilight can calm you with its hushedness. Today’s Toecabulary will bring you more images that illustrate ‘white balance’.
Enter the surreal icy realms of Svalbard in Norway, a place of dwelling for the polar bear and other exotic animals and birds.
If you are constantly stirred by the myriads of colours and elements the world brims with, how much of it do you include and how much of it you let go when you make a photograph? This week, Toecabulary brings you ‘composition’.
This week, Toecabulary brings you a photography concept that allows you to freeze action, to bring the grace of silky-smoothness to the fiercely flowing waterfalls, to tread the trail of stars as if it were that simple. We discuss shutter speed.
Ever wondered why certain parts of a photograph are in focus and the rest aren’t? Ever wondered what technical details are intended behind it? Today’s Toecabulary brings you the concept of ‘depth of field’, which answers these questions.
Here’s the Toehold Dictionary of Photography, a comprehensive glossary of the commonest photography-terms from A to Z.
The adorable Malabar gliding frog is our Animal of the Week!
Find out why the amazing crab-eating macaque, also known as the long-tailed macaque is our Animal of the Week!
Just bought a camera and struggling to understand its features or trying to figure out how best to use it? Let us take a minute to tell you how we can help you learn photography the right way.
The pretty and calm hyacinth macaw is our Animal of the Week!
The ever-adorable pygmy elephant which can be seen and photographed in Borneo, Malaysia, is our Animal of the Week!
One of the genetically closest cousins of human beings – the orangutan – is our Animal of the Week!
The beautiful kittiwake is our Animal of the Week! Find out why…
The lovely Atlantic puffin is our Animal of the Week!
Sharing Dr. Shanbhag’s thoughts on photography and travel.
