The word “monochrome” describes photographs that use one color or shades of one color instead of pure black and white, while images using only shades of grey are called black-and-white or grayscale.

The above image was shot in a field of sunflowers near Brighton, Colorado with a Canon EOS 1D Mark IIN with EF 28-105mm lens (at 73mm.)

Previously I wrote a post called Here’s Five Tips for Improving Your Photography that had a focus on car photography. Today I want to offer you five additional ways to improve your photography, little things you can do to improve your photography in general and cars in particular.

Your camera’s Shutter Priority (Tv) mode gives you control over whether a subject motion is sharp or blurred. When using telephoto lenses the old school rule is to use shutter speeds that are the equivalent of the reciprocal of the lens’s focal length and it’s one place to start.

Because of the nearly white reproduction of most vegetation’s chlorophyll, digital infrared photographs render landscapes as if they were glowing, moonlit or immersed in an extraterrestrial light.