Haje Jan Kamps

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Posts from February 2012

2 months ago

How to do timelapse photography

If you've ever seen the sun come up quickly over the city in CSI, or that fox decomposing in the title credits of True Blood, you've seen Timelapse in action. Here's how to do it... Timelapse is where photography meets video. Essentially, all you do is that you take a load of photos, and then play them quickly after each other - like a flip-book cartoon - and watch the frames come to life. Taking [...]

2 months ago

10 ways to improve your photography

One of my favourite things about photography is that it's so accessible as an artform. To create a painting, you can't expect to be able to deliver anything if you go and buy some canvases, brushes, and some paint without any training or idea what you're trying to do (although, to be fair, some modern art does give that impression)... In photography, you can take your very first photo, and it'll [...]

2 months ago

ISO: the biggest change in photography the past 10 years!

We all know that the triumvirate of exposure are shutter speeds, aperture, and ISO. It's this dastardly trio that operates like security guards to photons, standing there, ear-piece in their ears, saying "Oi, if you're name's not down, you ain't coming in". The head security guard, Mr Aperture is restricting the flow of how many photons can come in at the same time. Dr Shutter Speed is opening and [...]

3 months ago

The Pre-Photography Checklist

So, you're ready to do a photo shoot? No, seriously, are you really ready for your shoot? A while ago, I was challenged with creating a pre-shoot checklist for photographers - I figured it'd be rude not to, so I gave it a whirl. Before you press the shutter button... Check your settings – Is your camera set to the mode you planned to use? Is the ISO set to a useful setting? Fill the frame [...]

3 months ago

The most photogenic festivals in the world

Are you dreaming of travelling the world, camera in hand? Sure, you can go to the world heritage sites, the famous waterfalls and the prettiest viewpoints around the world, but if you really want to capture the essence of a place, it's worth doing some planning, and capturing the festivals and events that make the local cultures sparkle with awesomeness. I've collected 25 of the most photogenic [...]

3 months ago

Winners of the Macro Challenge announced

Update: A winner has now been found - see the bottom of this post for the answer, and thank you for playing everybody! :) Can you guess what this is? (If you've read my book on macro photography, you're disqualified from entering, as it contains the answer ;) To help you along a little bit... The photo is taken with a Canon MP-E 65mm lens. That's a particularly epic lens for macro photography; it [...]

3 months ago

A love story

Some times you find a lens that is so relentlessly delicious that you simply have to write it a love poem. Since I'm not a poet, I fear it may merely have to be these words. Think of it as short prose, perhaps, masquerading as free-form poetry. This photo: was taken with a Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens. The Non-image-stabilised version. It costs $570 / £420, and is a truly magnificent piece [...]

3 months ago

Red eyes and how to avoid them

The Red Eye phenomenon is something that occurs when you take a picture of someone. If you have a compact camera and you’ve taken a few rolls of pictures, chances are that you have stumbled across the phenomenon, during which the eyes of your subject end up glowing an eerie red glow. It's easy to avoid, and easy to fix if you failed to avoid it, but  in this article, we'll take a quick [...]

3 months ago

Gallery: Embedded with the Territorial Army

For one of my final years of university assignments (I was an International Journalism student at Liverpool John Moore's University), I contacted the Territorial Army to see whether they would let me come along on a training exercise. They agreed, and I spent a long week-end in the rain and the fog, chasing people holding guns with my Canon. This was back in 2003, and I just re-discovered and [...]

3 months ago

How much should you charge for a photograph?

The other day, I received a really interesting question from one of my regular readers. Danielle lives in Ohio, is a Senior in high school, and wants to be a professional photographer. I’ve seen some of her photos, and while she still has quite a bit to learn, she certainly shows a lot of potential. Her question, in a nutshell, was ‘I want to sell my photos. How much do I [...]

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