Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the reasons to move up from a cellphone or point-and-shoot cameras to a DSLR or digital mirrorless one is the ability to ...

The Canon Digital Rebel series of cameras offer manual aperture control, which adjusts the photograph's depth of field. The aperture is a internal ring that closes around the lens to reduce the amount ...

Put simply, depth of field refers to how much depth in your image is in focus. If objects both close to and far away from he camera are sharp, then you have a deep depth of field. If the foreground or ...

If you want to get creative with your photography, and out of that all-too-tempting automatic mode, you'll need to get your head around a few key settings. We've already looked at ISO, and now it's ...

Ever see a photograph with a dreamy, out-of-focus background? Or perhaps a landscape with pin-sharp details from the closest foreground elements all the way to distant clouds? Aperture is what allows ...

Cameras have become an integral part of our lives and the cameras producing high-quality images and offering manual settings are no longer associated just with DSLRs or professional cameras.

Lens aperture is increasingly up there with megapixels when it comes to the camera specifications that smartphone makers like to boast about, but what exactly do those numbers mean? Here we look at ...

A new depth of field tool highlights the changes to HSC Edit 1.6, a collection of plug-ins for Apple’s Aperture photo workflow app. The bundle from HumanSoftware provides 16 plug-ins for more than ...

Replay: Today's large sensor cameras allow us much more control over depth of field than older, small sensor devices. Here's some tips on how to use depth of field as a creative tool. When DSLR video ...

One of the reasons to move up from a cellphone or point-and-shoot cameras to a DSLR or digital mirrorless one is the ability to exert control over your exposures with the latter. With cellphones or ...