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There are a couple of terms that everyone really needs to learn first before they get into photography and they are the most basic of terminology that is essential. Rule of Thirds: This is the ...
Learn the differences between ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and more basic photography terminology with this free PDF glossary
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- AEB Or Auto Exposure Bracketing
- Aperture
- Aperture Priority
- Autofocus Points
- Back-Button Focus
- Bokeh
- Bulb Mode
- Burning
- Chimping
Let’s start with the word photography itself, which has an interesting background. The word “photo” comes from the Greek word meaning light, and the word “graph” is derived from the Greek word meaning drawing. So photography is essentially drawing with light. The process involves capturing light with a physical medium such as film, or through elect...
Most of the time your goal is to capture an image that is properly exposed – that is, not too bright and not too dark. However, there are times when you might want to intentionally make a few different images of the same scene; one that is too dark, one that is too bright, and one that is, as Goldilocks might say, just right. AEB or Bracketing is o...
The aperture is the opening in your camera lens. The bigger your aperture the less light you need in order to take a picture or the less time your shutter will need to stay open in order to collect enough light for the picture. Think of two buckets sitting in the rain, each with a base 10cm in diameter. One also has a 10cm opening on top, while the...
Put your camera in Aperture Priority Mode (on Nikon cameras, turn the top dial to A, on Canons and others turn it to Av) and you can then set your desired aperture while your camera figures out the shutter speed and ISO required to have a properly exposed picture. Note: the camera will only choose the ISO for you if you are using Auto-ISO. If you d...
Autofocus points are all the tiny little dots or squares you see when you look through the viewfinder. Some cameras have a lot, some don’t have very many, but for practical purposes, the quantity doesn’t matter. If you are comparing cameras and one has 29 AF points while another has 99 AF points, both are perfectly capable of taking great pictures,...
On most cameras, you press the shutter button down halfway to make it focus on your subject. But instead of doing this you can also set your camera to use a button on the rear of the camera, that you press with your thumb. It sounds a little counterintuitive and feels funny at first, but it’s a nice way to give yourself more control over your photo...
Bokeh is a fancy name for the blurry, out-of-focus, areas of a picture. For maximum bokeh use a wide aperture, get very close to your subject, and ensure the subject is far away from the background.
This is a setting on your camera used for really long exposures. When in BULB Mode, your camera will open the shutter when the shutter button is pressed and then closes it when the button is released. If you’re going to use this mode, it also helps to have some type of remote or cable release attached to your camera so it doesn’t pick up vibrations...
Burning means to selectively make parts of a photo darker. The name comes from techniques used on photographic negatives in the days of printing in a darkroom, but now it’s usually just done in Photoshop, Lightroom, or another image processing program. For more on burning (and dodging) read: What Are Burning And Dodging And How They Can Help Your P...
Chimping is checking your photos on the rear LCD screen of your camera constantly, often for no particular reason. It’s not a bad habit per se, but if you learn to stop doing this you will probably start to trust your instincts more and pay more attention to what’s in front of your camera rather than what’s on the screen. Try disabling the auto-rev...
windows, outdoor scenes at twilight or in moonlight, and scenes artificially illuminated after dark. Exposure The quantity of light allowed to act on a photographic material; a product of the intensity (controlled by the lens opening) and the duration (controlled by the shutter speed) of light striking the CCD. Exposure Meter
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STEP ISO. Once the light has passed through the aperture and been filtered by the shutter speed, it reaches the sensor, where we decide upon the ISO. As you turn the ISO number up, you increase the exposure but, at the same time, the image quality decreases; there will be more digital noise or “grain”. So you have to decide upon your ...
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Feb 26, 2024 · Full-Frame Sensor –. A full-frame sensor is the photography term used to describe the physical dimensions of a camera sensor that measures 36mm x 24mm. This is the same size as a single frame of 35mm film. It is relevant when discussing the focal length of camera lenses and their field of view.
Aperture. Aperture is one of the first photography terms that come to mind when talking about photography terminology. Aperture refers to the opening at the back of a camera lens . It also refers to the size of that opening. The size is expressed numerically and represented as f2.8 or f/2.8.
