Camera Modes

Automatic Mode: Tells your camera to select shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, focus and flash to take the best shot that it can. You have to keep in mind that you’re not telling your camera any extra information about the type of shot you’re taking so it does what it thinks you want. Portrait … [Read more…]

Conceptual Self Portrait

The word conceptual has something to do with imagery, for example I can show you a picture and form a story around it. Skating has really changed my life surprisingly.  Skating has brought me out of my comfort zone, I’ve been skating for almost a year and I’ve met so many new people. I like … [Read more…]

20 Important Camera Lens Facts

Telephoto lens can be up to 800mm or more. Fish-eye lens gives a 180 degree field of view. Different lenses range from zooms, primes, macro, super telephoto, and tilt-shift lenses. Expensive lenses have a fixed aperture. Wide lenses are good for landscape photos, a wide lens could be around 14mm. Standard lenses range from 35mm-85mm. … [Read more…]

Depth of Field Explained

The depth of field refers to how much of the picture they choose to have in focus. Sometimes you want to have attention on a certain object and to do that you would reduce the depth of field in a scene to make the background blurry. You would use your aperture setting to change depth … [Read more…]

What every beginner need to know.

Setting the exposure using the histogram The best way to tell if your exposure is correct is by consulting the histogram. RAW Shooting in RAW format will give you access to the full capabilities of your camera. In other words, RAW format is a good format Selecting Focusing points manually Learning to change the AF … [Read more…]