"After reading about this neat idea of dog-tagging your camera, I visited my nearest Petco store to create a personalized tag that bared the vital facts to identify my camera: name, website and phone number."

"Lightroom is designed to adjust pixels in a non-destructive way, and when you export, all your adjustments are compiled with the RAW sensor data to produce a standard RGB raster image. Photoshop, on the other hand, is designed to manipulate pixels by altering and moving pixels in a rendered image."

"A 100mm lens on one of these cameras shows the same area of view that a 150mm lens would show on a 35mm film or full-frame camera. Multiply a lens' focal length by 1.5 to get the focal length of a lens which, when used on a full-frame or 35mm film camera, gives the same angle of view as that lens does on one of these cameras."

"As a quick definition, a fast lens doesn’t refer to the autofocus speed, rather the speed of the aperture. A “faster” aperture is one that lets more light in, allowing a faster shutter speed or a lower ISO."

"As a form cultivating what I already know, I’ve been turning to YouTube videos specifically from Jared Polin who’s energy and enthusiasm for the craft truly does make any complex concept about photography uncomplicated and here’s a few of my personal favorites."

"Sometimes the dynamic range of a scene can exceed the dynamic range of our camera, so we have to make a choice of what part we want to have the best exposure. Usually with digital it is best to have the brightest areas in good exposure and not blown out. But it can depend on the situation."