See through the lens

I'm not great at doing sports photos because I haven't had the chance to do any of it apart from some occasions. I armed myself with my 70-300 f2.8 lens and the 18-105 f3.5-5.6 lens and spent a couple of hours photographing my friend's son at his BMX training. It was the 1st of November 2015 and the sun was quite low as expected for the time of year, which played in my advantage of not causing huge shadows on surfaces facing downwards. I tried to make the most of it to create some nice effects. The compulsory under exposed, deep shadow photos with the sun behind the subject had to be done:

Fooooood! Who doesn't like good food? Over the years, I had the chance to photograph some great looking and tasting food at weddings, home and parties. I remember once I made a fish finger sandwich for lunch just because I wanted to photograph it.  What a life, aye? My Portugal visit When I was in Portugal, I went to a local fish market early one morning in Portimao with some of my friends.    Henley Hannah, my friend, made us a great lunch on Henley one year. It was rude not to take some low depth of field shots. Enjoy them.     Festive ones Some festive photos from Christmas and the joyous occasion of someone's wedding.       The ultimate Fish finger sandwich! Amazing with a little bit of mayonnaise and some chilli on top.

Exposing for a photo is as important as framing it right, composing it and being creative among other things. We all use decent intelligent devices in the form of digital cameras. smartphones and exposure meters for the more professionals. Those devices often tell us what the right exposure is. But what if the photo taken at such exposure What does exposure really mean? According to the well trusted source of  Wikipedia In  photography ,  exposure  is the amount of light per unit area (the image plane  illuminance  times the exposure time) reaching a  photographic film  or electronic  image sensor , as determined by shutter speed, lens  aperture  and scene  luminance . Exposure is measured in  lux   seconds , and can be computed from  exposure value  (EV) and scene luminance in a specified region. In photographic jargon,  an exposure  generally refers to a single  shutter cycle . For example: a long exposure refers to a single, protracted shutter cycle to capture enough low-in