What Makes a Photo?

Before you read about the specific techniques of landscape photography, I want to make sure that you know exactly how to create a photo. If you just bought an SLR camera but do not see much of a difference between your new photos and the ones taken with your previous camera, then you’ll find great benefit in my Photography 101 articles as they’ll help you get...

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Knowing Your Shutter Speed

We’ve established how your camera creates photos – by exposing light onto your sensor – and that your shutter speed controls how long your image is exposed for. However, your shutter can do a lot more than just gauge the right exposure for you – it can drastically change the content of your image by capturing motion in various ways. The goal here is to...

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Using Your Aperture

As I mentioned in my last article, there are a few different settings on your camera that you can adjust manually in order to create your image. When you learn how to master these, you can start taking photos with your DSLR that set your work apart from your compact camera images. You can begin to unlock the full potential of your camera simply by knowing what your...

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ISO and Your Exposure Triangle

Now that we have aperture and shutter speed covered, the final part of your exposure triangle is your ISO setting. If you have any experience with film photography, your ISO is equivalent to your film speed. Essentially, your camera can increase your shutter speed artificially by increasing your ISO setting (typically ranging from 100 to 1600) for those moments when you...

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