Being married to a photographer, I often feel ridiculous when she hands me her digital SLR. It has a gazillion settings and I panic whenever it migrates off the auto setting. I understand the basics of photography, but for some reason I forget them all when I get a camera in my hands.
Perhaps you’re like me in knowing a little about photography, but would like to improve your skills. Today, more people than ever before are taking pictures. Unfortunately, this also means the number of truly terrible pictures has increased exponentially. This is especially true when I see more and more people buying digital SLRs because they are pretty affordable. The problem is, most people don’t know how to use them.
While I can’t claim to know everything about cameras, the good folks at Canon can. For most photographers, there are only two names in the camera business: Canon and Nikon. Personally, my wife and I like Nikon, but Canons are dang good cameras too. And the brilliant minds at Canon have found an easy way to help people understand how to use a camera.
The site Canon Outside of Auto provides a very quick and easy to understand overview of the basics of a camera:
- Exposure – the amount of light a camera captures when a picture is taken.
- Aperture – the size of the lens opening.
- Shutter Speed – how long the shutter stays open, allowing light to pass through to the camera sensor.
- ISO – available light settings.
Okay, this is awesome! Heading over to play, er, learn…
Wow!! This is great!! Thanx for passing the info along! I have a Nikon, but I think there's still a lot I can learn through this! Love it!
This is great! I am gone to countless photography classes and yet, like you said, hen I get a camera in my hand I somehow forget everything I learned. Thanks for sharing, headed to check it out!
Perfect timing. I just bought my first "big girl" camera and have no idea what to do with it (hem, it's a Canon). Can't wait to try this out.
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Great post! Much needed and I'll check it out. Just wish my failing eyesight wasn't letting me down. If it gets much worse I might have to always rely on auto focus unfortunately.
Great find. There is nothing like hands-on learning.
Don't you just love it when a child pushes your hand away and says "Me!" when they're ready to do it themselves.
Pity we lose this. It's difficult to mess up a camera so mess away!