Top new questions this week:

What are the benefits of using GPS tagging?

A lot of cameras (especially on your phone) offer the ability to tag your images with GPS information. To this date, I haven't really found a "killer idea" that would convince me to add GPS ...

[gps]

asked by Wayne Werner 10 votes answered by Olin Lathrop 26 votes

Which color filter do I use for a black & white portrait?

I know color filters "block out" colors opposite to the color of the filter, and when used in black & white photography, can brighten or darken the object depending on its color and the color of ...

[portrait] [black-and-white] [color-filters]

asked by Tvrtko Zadro 9 votes answered by Rafael 11 votes

Why does my Nikon D750 and 18-200 lens have dark corners with no lens hood or filters attached?

I am new to photography. I have a Nikon D750 with the 18-200 3.5-5.6 ED VRII lens on it. No filters are attached. No hood attached. When I look through the viewfinder it creates a circle around the ...

[lens] [vignetting]

asked by Colleen 7 votes answered by MikeW 30 votes

How to get exposure right in night photography?

In this link there are some wonderful night time scenes (#4,6,7,9,10,11,13). I'm wondering how the photographer got the exposure right. In my experience my camera metering will overexpose everything ...

[exposure] [metering] [night-photography]

asked by Rene 6 votes answered by Caleb 7 votes

How does red-eye reduction work on digital cameras?

How does the auto red-eye correction work in digital cameras?

[red-eye]

asked by L.Halfpenny 4 votes answered by Matthieu Moy 5 votes

Hand-Held Gimbal vs Image Stabilization

There are now people using hand-held gimbals like this one or that one with their DSLRs or mirrorless cameras. How does the effect of such a gimbal compare to image stabilization? Can they be used for ...

[image-stabilization] [support-equipment]

asked by Itai 3 votes

Can I use any brand's non-TTL wireless trigger to trigger any brand's manual flash?

I am planning on buying a cheap manual flash for outdoor photoshoots. But, I am not sure if those cheap non-TTL flashes can be triggered by any brand's non-TTL wireless trigger, or whether they ...

[flash] [wireless-triggers] [wireless-flash] [manual-flash]

asked by user3839347 3 votes answered by Michael Clark 3 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

How can I set the Canon EOS 500D interval timer to take 10 photos with a 10 second interval?

I am using Canon EOS 500D, with Canon EF 1.8 USM Portrait Lens. I would like to set a self timer continuous in drive mode for capturing 10 images continuously with 10 second intervals between the ...

[canon] [canon-500d] [camera-settings] [intervalometer]

asked by Ravi 3 votes answered by xtarsy 3 votes

How do I calculate the distance of an object in a photo?

If I took a picture of a windmill on the horizon — given that I know the sensor size and the focal length of the lens and other factors to do with the shot — could I calculate how far away an object ...

[focal-length] [calculations] [subject-distance]

asked by Rob 29 votes answered by Matt Grum 29 votes

Can you answer these?

How to stack low light shots (in Photoshop)

I want to take a picture of a very dark scene with the help of all the noise reduction tricks you would use when shooting stars: stacking multiple exposures, using dark frames, bias frames an so on. ...

[photoshop] [low-light] [astrophotography] [noise-reduction]

asked by smow 3 votes

How to create a denoising profile for darktable

I tried to create a denoising profile for my Google Nexus-5 smartphone as described in a blog post. I shot some pictures, one per ISO setting (100,200,400,800,1600,3200) with OpenCamera which are ...

[post-processing] [smartphone] [iso-noise] [darktable]

asked by Kurztipp 1 vote