cameras: Top 5 Tips to Better Photographs, Tip #2: Light: What You See is Not Always What You Get
- 11/24/08 03:37 PM
Joseph: Hello again everyone. This is Kay's assistant, Joseph. In today's tip we will look at the next to last of my Top 5 Tips for Better Photographs. Let's talk about light. Years ago, when I took a drawing class I remember the instructor constantly reminding us to draw what we saw, not what we thought we saw. You see (pardon the pun), our eyes and our brain do a very good job of taking visual images and processing them so that objects never seem to change much even though we see them at different angles or in different lighting (10 comments)
cameras: Top 5 Tips to Better Photographs, Tip 3: Open Wide & Show Me Your Aperture
- 11/24/08 01:42 AM
Joseph: Hello again everyone. This is Kay's assistant, Joseph. In today's tip we will look at the third (and last) technical area of your camera equipment that a little knowledge about will serve you well: !!!!!Lens Aperture, Shutter Speed, and Depth of Field!!!!!! Lens Aperture The aperture of a camera lens is the size of the opening that allows light through the lens to strike the film (or digital sensors) when the shutter opens. It is also called the f-stop, abbreviated f/. Every lens has a single, or multiple aperture settings. Almost all good compact digital cameras and SLR lenses (0 comments)