Understanding an MTF Chart for Lenses

MTF Chart for Nikkor 14-24 lens (Wide)

If you own DSLR or planning to buy one in near future, you will be looking for lenses sooner or later and when time comes, you have to be very careful while choosing lenses. There are limited types of camera bodies (which are upgraded pretty frequently) but there are wide varieties of lenses and stay [...]

Varying your composition

Glen Echo park entrance

On a crisp, abnormally warm winter day, I decided to photograph a local amusement park that had been closed and made into an art center. Assignments like this are challenging because you have to try to do something different from everybody else. You have to go underneath the obvious scene (and its parts) and think [...]

Understanding Depth of Field Preview

DOF Preview Button on Nikon D90 and D80

As you all know, Depth of Field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in image. It is widely used term in all types of photography and specially popular in Portrait and Landscape photography. We use small DOF (small aperture value), also called shallow depth [...]