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25 Days of Blogmas: Day 2 - Photography Tips!
Hola and feliz navidad!
Time for day 2 of December and 25 days of blogmas!
Today I want to just go over some of the very basics of photography, and I encourage you brush the dust off of your fancy camera that you have no idea on how to use!
After reading this, you should go and expirement with it for a while. Yes I just said EXPIREMENT. I'm not joking, but some people are scared to do this. They think they are gonna mess something up and ruin their camera. I'm not going to lie, you might mess up a setting on your camera in the process, but the beauty of the settings are, they can be changed! If you don't know how to change it back, look at the manual it comes with if you didn't throw it away or lose it, or you can go online and find all kinds of pictures and diagrams of your camera and how to change all the settings.
You need to be familiar with your basic settings and how to change them for my next photography post, so we can get into some more difficult things.
1. ISO
Think of a room in your head. That is the inside of your camera. Inside this room is a window, or your lense.
If the light is really bright, you may put on a pair of sunglasses. The brighter the light, the darker your sunglasses will have to be.
Sunglasses to you= ISO to camera.
Pretty simple right?
My ISO goes from 100-16000 on my camera. What do these numbers mean?
100 is the darkest setting, and 16000 is the brightest.
If you wanted to take a picture in a dark place, you would want a higher ISO, and to take a picture in a light place, you would want a lower ISO.
ISO too low:
Better (could be even brighter):
2. Shutter Speed
Put yourself back in that room. The window has curtains. The curtains will open and then quickly close, and whatever amound of light that came in will be trapped in the room. The longer the curtains are open, the more light will be trapped, the shorter they are open, the less light.
Now apply that to your shutter speed. It is how long the curtains stay open of your window.
Shutter speed on my camera ranges from 1/4000-30. Shutter speed is always in seconds.
The longer the shutter speed, the more light that will be taken in, the shorter the speed, the less.
It can also affect how clear your image is.
If you are photographing something in motion, you will have to use a faster shutter speed to get a clear image, for still objects, you can have longer shutter speeds. For really long shutter speeds like 30 seconds, you will have to use a tripod, because I know it is impossible to stand completely still for that long!
Shutter Speed too slow (causes a blurry picture if you move a little):
The shutter speed here is better, but the image is still a little blurry.
Aperture:
Aperture is like how big the window is in the room.
It ranges from 3.0-29.0 on my camera. The smaller the aperture number, the larger the opening, and the shallower the depth of field. The larger the aperture number, the smaller the opening, and the deeper the depth of field.
This picture has an aperture of 5, it blurs at about half distance.
This picture has an aperture of 8, as you can see, the picture slowly blurs out in the distance.
This picture has an aperture of 3, and it very quickly blurs out and only focuses on a small part of the subject.
So now that you know the basics, go get 'em!
Later there will be more posts to help you become a pro!
Lots of Love,
Kat