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Although taping a family event, such as a reunion or a barbecue, sounds like the easiest thing in the world to do, it's difficult to make a video that you and your family will actually enjoy watching for years to come. But these simple rules will help you produce a video that can be viewed with prid... More...

Digital camcorders offer great picture quality, excellent sound, compactness and lots of features. Combine one with a computer for digital editing and output to DVD, and you could end up the talk of the next Sundance Film Festival. Although these cameras don't have many (if any) parts you can repair... More...

Play and record images of the highest quality by keeping your camcorder clean. Instructions Difficulty: Moderately Easy Steps ... More...

VHS tapes aren’t complete dinosaurs…yet. And since camcorder cassettes can still be a little pricey, to get the most for your money, it’s not a bad idea to dub your camcorder recordings to VHS. Not only will you have an easily viewable copy of your video-worthy memories, but you’ll also have a brand... More...

The trick of making a good home movie is in the planning and editing. The shooting part is easy. The hard stuff comes before and after. Here is how to make a home movie with your camcorder. Instructions Difficulty: Moderately Challengin... More...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Crabby Photos! Taking photos of land hermit crabs requires skill and patience. You are capturing images of an animal that moves and has a habit of moving in the opposite direction of the camera. This makes macro (or close-up) photography more difficult since any mo... More...

Maybe it's a personality flaw. The holidays are long past--and my birthday is nowhere in sight--but I'm looking around longingly for some new digital photo toys to play with anyway. Whatever the explanation, I have a hankering to fiddle with some goodies for my digital camera. I've rounded up some o... More...

Over the recent holidays, I took about a hundred photos around the house. I also filled a memory card while photographing wolves at a nearby wildlife refuge, and, just a few weeks ago, snapped a truckload of "light trail"-style night photos from a pedestrian overpass in Las Vegas. Every o... More...

Everyone has a stockpile of images that are just too dark. The flash didn't reach far enough, or perhaps a bright background caused the camera to underexpose the subject. Thankfully, you can repair some of the damage on your PC. The Histogram Is Your Friend The most precise and powerful way of corre... More...

Five years ago, around the time that Digital Focus launched, Windows XP appeared on the scene and replaced Windows 98, Me, and 2000 on many desktops. Windows XP didn't have many features especially for digital photographers, but that's not too surprising. Digital photography was still in its infancy... More...

I grew up loving classic stop-motion animation--stuff like Gumby cartoons and classic Ray Harryhausen movies like Clash of the Titans. And over the years, I've tinkered with making my own. The problem? Stop-motion animation takes a long time. It's a slow process composed of setting up a shot, taking... More...

Depth of field is perhaps the most striking difference between photography and what you see through your own eyes. Unlike your normal vision, cameras can't keep everything in focus all at once. Instead, you get something called depth of field: One point in a photo is in sharp focus, and everything i... More...

Recently, I attended a party where the subject turned to digital photography. Someone asked me, "Dave, what question do you get asked more than any other?" I considered the possibilities, then decided it had to be: "Did your nose always look like that, or did you get in some sort of a... More...

At the risk of dating myself, I feel compelled to say that when I was a kid, I did all the things budding geeks were supposed to do. For example, I made a crystal radio (a simple radio that doesn't need a battery) and a pinhole camera. A pinhole camera is perhaps the simplest kind of photographic de... More...

When I lived in Colorado, my kitchen window looked out on Pike's Peak, which a group of intrepid hikers climbed each Fourth of July to launch fireworks from its summit. Now that I live near Seattle, the highlight of Independence Day is watching the spectacle of fireworks that get launched from the t... More...

It seems that there's something glamorous about being a professional photographer. For me, National Geographic's wildlife photographers were like rock stars; I was a camera groupie even before I was a teenager. If you, too, have been seduced by the idea of getting paid for your photos, I have some ... More...

Soft focus has been used in photography for almost as long as cameras have been used to take portraits. Softening the focus helps hide wrinkles, age lines, and skin blemishes, but it can also be used to give a somewhat dreamy quality to any subject. And it can help your own photos as well. This wee... More...

Have a question about digital cameras, photo editing, or digital photography in general? That's why I'm here. (Of course, my cat would tell you I'm here to provide a comfy lap for afternoon naps.) Once a month or so, I dig into the mailbag and answer reader questions. Have one of your own? Send it t... More...

I'm a restless guy. Even when I'm on vacation, I get nervous if I lie around on a couch for too long--I've got to be moving. This characteristic even affects the photos I take. Long ago, I noticed that I'm much happier when I'm capturing action than taking still-life photos. In fact, sometimes I ev... More...

If you've ever photographed an idyllic landscape and ended up with a washed-out sky and dark, underexposed blobs instead of shadows, you'll understand why photographers are falling in love with High Dynamic Range photography. HDR allows you to capture far more color, brightness, and contrast informa... More...