Basic photography: metering modes
It’s been a long time since the last time I write about basic photography. I just stumbled upon a great article on explaining metering modes. I’ll just copy paste it from DPS because I think there’s just no need to rewrite the whole thing. It’s already basic enough. Credits to the original author. Here goes. [...]
Basic photography: understanding histograms
Every DSLR has a display feature called histograms. It looks like a graph with random data that any new photographer don’t know what it actually is. And maybe, won’t even care. Here’s a peek, it’s a reader that records how much light (how bright or dark) a picture is . You should know that every [...]
Basic photography: understanding white balance
Another series of basic photography from Darren Rowse of DPS. White Balance is an aspect of photography that many digital camera owners don’t understand or use – but it’s something well worth learning about as it can have a real impact upon the shots you take. So for those of you who have been avoiding [...]
Rule of thirds
Here’s the 4th installment of my basic photography series. Everyone who started out drawing or photography must have at least heard ‘rule of thirds’. So to show you what it is, I share this great article from DPS. Perhaps the most well know principle of photographic composition is the ‘Rule of Thirds‘.
Basic photography: understanding ISO
Here goes the third post of my basic photography series. This is ISO setting, so here goes the basic definition. In traditional (film) photography ISO (or ASA) was the indication of how sensitive a film was to light. It was measured in numbers (you’ve probably seen them on films – 100, 200, 400, 800 etc). [...]
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