Steve’s Photography Tips

Want to know more about how I take the photos that I take, and learn some tips that might help you improve your photography? Check out Steve’s Photography Tips! Here are the tips that are available so far:

• Steve’s Photography Tips: Shoot Raw
• Steve’s Photography Tips: What Is ISO?
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Understanding Aperture
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Setting Your Shutter Speed
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Camera Modes
• Steve’s Photography Tips: About Exposure
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Finding Your Focal Length
• Steve’s Photography Tips: DSLR vs. Mirrorless
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Fisheye Lens Fun
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Processing Photos with Lightroom
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Processing Photos with Photoshop
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Selective Color in Photoshop
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Using Layers in Photoshop
• Steve’s Photography Tips: Shoot Raw with Your Phone
• Fireworks on a Disney Cruise (and fireworks photography tips)

Camera Gear

Here is what I am currently using, or have used in the past, for the photos I shoot:

Cameras:

• Canon EOS 60D
• Canon EOS-M – Read our Canon EOS-M review
• Olympus OM-D E-M10 – Read our E-M10 review

Lenses for Canon EOS 60D:

• Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM Lens
• Rokinon 8mm F3.5 Fisheye
• Canon EF 50mm f/1.8
• Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM Standard Zoom Lens

Flash for Canon EOS 60D: Canon Speedlite 430EX II

Tripod: Benro A0680T Travel Angel

Camera bag: Lowepro SlingShot 202 AW (For the Canon 60D – don’t necessarily need anything that big for the Olympus OM-D E-M10, which is my main shooting camera right now)

Some older photos you see around here may have been from older gear, such as the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, which Canon has replaced with newer models.

Older Posts

Here are some old posts about the different photo software I use. Most of the information is still accurate if you want to do things these ways, although I don’t necessarily still do all of that:

• Why do your pictures look different? – Explains some of the processing techniques I use now or have used in the past.
• Which photo software do you use? – A look at some of the different software packages I use to get the look that I want out of my photos.
• More about photo software – A few more thoughts as a follow-up to the post above

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