As I look back on the digital photography class we just taught, one of the hardest concepts for the students to grasp and master is how the 3 pieces of the exposure triangle affect one another. If only I had a… virtual camera – that would show the results of increasing the ISO, lower the shutter speed or changing the f/stop. Now I’ve
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Jenn and I have just started another 6 week class at our local community college on digital photography. And we always start the class with the basics – exposure. If you don’t get a good exposure, you won’t ever get a good picture. So I thought it was worthwhile to repost our 4 part series on The Mystery of the Exposure Triangle Revealed. Part
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No, not that kind… The Program kind – as in Program mode on my digital camera. If you really want to get better pictures from your digital camera, learn these reasons why using the Program mode instead of Auto will get better pictures for your memories. But first – what do the two modes do? And why is Program better? Here’s why: -Auto decides
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As the economy starts to turn around a little here in the States and worldwide, retailers are itching to get at a portion of our discretionary income – the cash in our pockets! Jenn and I did our part last night when we went to Amazon.com and bought a few early Christmas presents for the kids. While I was there, I came across a
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Everyone LOVES these photos: You know, where part of the photo is in focus, and the background and maybe part of the foreground is out of focus. That’s called “shallow depth of field”. The amount of the field or image that is in focus is small, or shallow. How to achieve this is the first question we get from most of our students in
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