What Is Landscape Photography?

What Is Landscape Photography?

Landscape photography is the art of capturing all aspects of the environment with a camera. Landscape photography can capture a wide range of subjects from wide open spaces to small details within the environment. Landscape photography can also capture both natural and manmade forms, and their interrelationships, impacts, and tensions. Landscape photography could be called outdoor photography. And some people call it nature photography.

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What Is Wedding Photography?

What Is Wedding Photography?

Wedding Photography is the specialism of photographing weddings. A wedding photographer is commissioned usually by the couple getting married to record the day of the wedding. This includes preparations for the ceremony, the arrival of the couple and guests at the ceremony, the wedding ceremony itself and the post-ceremony celebrations. Wedding Photography can also include pre-wedding engagement shoots.

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What Are The Different Camera Modes?

What Are The Different Camera Modes?

Camera modes fall into three categories, automatic modes, semi-automatic modes and manual mode. I say manual mode because there is only one manual mode where you choose all the settings. In semi-automatic mode, you choose one setting and the camera chooses the others. In automatic modes, the camera chooses all the settings.

The settings in the camera modes determine the success (or not) of the image capture exposure.

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What Have We Learned About Exposure?

What Have We Learned About Exposure?

Exposure is the amount of light that reaches the camera sensor ( yes, I'm reading this). The amount of light that reaches a camera sensor is controlled by the amount of time the shutter is open (shutter speed), and the amount of light that passes through the opening in the lens aperture.

The third part of the exposure, or the exposure triangle, which I've spoken about before, is the sensitivity of the camera sensor to light, which is determined by the ISO selected.

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5 Practical Applications Of The Exposure Triangle

5 Practical Applications Of The Exposure Triangle

In this episode, I'm going to give you five practical examples of the exposure triangle. Apologies for repeating myself there. These examples tell you how to use the exposure triangle to correct a photo that is too light and one that is too dark. I also tell you how to use the exposure triangle to get a correct exposure with a faster and slower shutter speed. I'll tell you what I do as well.

  1. You took a photo, but this is too dark. So what do you do?

  2. You took a photo that is too light, here's what you do.

  3. You want to make moving things blurry but get the exposure correct.

  4. You want to freeze the action.

  5. How do I use the exposure triangle?

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What Is The Exposure Triangle? (Revisited)

What Is The Exposure Triangle? (Revisited)

The exposure triangle is the combination of the camera shutter speed, aperture setting and ISO. The camera's shutter speed and the aperture setting control the amount of light that reaches the camera sensor when you take a photograph. The ISO controls the sensitivity of the camera sensor to light. When applied correctly, these settings will enable a correct exposure to be achieved.

The exposure triangle can be used creatively to take correctly exposed photos with different aperture, shutter speed, and ISO settings. The exposure triangle is also used to take photographs in challenging light conditions, and also for creative image capture.

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What Does ISO Stand For In Photography?

What Does ISO Stand For In Photography?

ISO in photography refers to the sensitivity of your camera sensor to light. The higher the ISO number, the more sensitive your sensor is to light (in theory). The lower the ISO number, the less sensitive your sensor is to light (in theory). A low ISO setting is generally better than a high ISO setting. ISO is one of the three elements of the exposure triangle, the others being aperture and shutter.

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What Does Shutter Mean In Photography?

What Does Shutter Mean In Photography?

The shutter in a camera controls the amount of time the camera sensor is exposed to light. When you press the shutter release button, the shutter raises and lets light into the sensor. You set the shutter speed, which is the amount of time the shutter is open as the sensor is exposed to light. The longer the shutter speed the more light that reaches the sensor. The shorter the shutter speed the less light that reaches the sensor.

Shutter speed is one of the three elements of the exposure triangle, along with aperture and ISO.

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