Archive For The “Terminology” Category
Essentially, exposure is the light your camera turns into an image. It’s determined by the brightness of the light, the amount of time it hits the camera’s sensor, and the ISO “sensitivity” of the sensor. Every exposure is controlled by aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. These three settings together are sometimes called the “exposure triangle”….
Today, I present a lesson. I can’t call it a lesson learned, because I’m still learning it. The lesson is: pay attention to your aperture, and choose it wisely. On this particular day, I forgot about that, and I’m still kicking myself over it. I was on a vacation, staying on the coast of Maine….
In simplified terms, your camera’s shutter is like a little door that opens and closes. Closed most of the time, it opens briefly when you snap a picture, to let light coming through the lens fall on the camera’s sensor, which turns the light into electrical signals and captures the picture. I’ll be posting about…
For beginners, one of the more slippery concepts in photography is the f-stop. What the heck is it, why are the numbers so weird, why do they seemingly run backward, what’s it do, and what should you set yours to? First, what the heck is it? It’s just a number, representing the relative size of…
What are wide angle, prime, telephoto, or zoom lenses? The names can sometimes be confusing to a beginner, because you hear them tossed around a lot in generic ways (sometimes inaccurately), and there’s some overlap in the terms. So here’s a summary. Different types of lenses are defined, in part, by their focal length, which…