Photography
What Is Bokeh in Photography? How I Use Blur Without Losing the Photograph
Bokeh is not simply a blurry background. It is the way a lens renders everything outside focus—and it works best when that blur still belongs to the photograph.
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Practical photography guides
A curated starting point for evergreen photography fundamentals, techniques and editing. Every guide remains at its original URL.
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Photography fundamentals
Photography
Aperture in Photography: A Practical Guide to F-Stops and Depth of Field
Aperture controls the opening inside a lens, influencing exposure, depth of field, bokeh, diffraction and starbursts. This guide explains the f-stop scale and shows how to choose a practical setting for common subjects.
Photography
Shutter Speed Explained: How to Freeze or Blur Motion
Shutter speed determines how long a photograph records light and movement. This practical guide explains the numbers, stops, camera modes, motion blur, camera shake and useful starting settings for everyday subjects.
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Techniques & editing
Photography
25 Street Photography Ideas That Teach You to See More
Twenty-five street photography ideas that give you a reason to go out and a way to look once you are there, with the settings, focusing and etiquette that make them workable.
Photography
Long Exposure Drone Photography: A Practical Field Guide
A field guide to making long exposures from a hovering drone, based on my DJI Mini 2 experiment in Murska Sobota and updated with practical settings, ND-filter choices, editing methods and current flight-safety guidance.
Editing
How I Edit Photos in GIMP: A Practical Workflow for GIMP 3.2
GIMP can finish a photograph remarkably well, but only if I treat it as an editor rather than a free copy of Photoshop. This is the workflow I use, from the first crop to the final export.