Learning about Exposure – The Exposure Triangle A Post By: Darren Rowse Bryan Peterson has written a book titled Understanding Exposure which is a highly recommended read if you’re wanting to venture out of the Auto mode on your digital camera and experiment with it’s manual settings. In it Bryan illustrates the three main elements that need to be considered when playing around with exposure by calling them ‘the exposure triangle’. Each of the three aspects of the triangle relate to light and how it enters and interacts with the camera. The three elements are: ISO – the measure of a digital camera sensor’s sensitivity to lightAperture – the size of the opening in the lens when a picture is takenShutter Speed – the amount of time that the shutter is open It is at the intersection of these three elements that an image’s exposure is worked out. Most importantly – a change in one of the elements will impact the others. 3 Metaphors for understanding the digital photography exposure triangle: The Window Aperture is the size of the window.
Free online photography lessons - photography school - BestPhotoLessons Night Photography Lesson Copyright: This lesson MAY NOT be copied to your website or blog, please use the social networking buttons above to link to it. See our Terms and Conditions. This free lesson assumes the student has some knowledge in practical photography (equivalent to a pass level in our Basic Photography course). If you like what you see in this lesson, but cannot understand all the information given, enrol in our new Creative Photography course and get all the help and encouragement you need! Once the sun has set many photographers will pack away their cameras and go home. Throughout our courses we emphasise the importance of light for the photographic image. Taking photographs at night is a lot simpler to achieve then one might think. Here we have some guidelines on the possibilities open to us with night photography. With many night photography subjects, total darkness at night isn’t necessarily the best time to actually do ‘night shots’. Fig n.2 Canon G9 1/8 sec @ f3.5, ISO 200. Exposure Tools
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Headshot Photography Tips Let’s be honest, in certain directions and under certain light, most of us exhibit the dreaded double chin in some form or another. This issue is often the difference between a good headshot photographer and an average one. So what if you are a headshot or portrait photographer, how do you make your subject’s jawline look good? In this revealing video, Peter Hurley gives us some great tips on making anyone look good, just by accentuating their jaw: So what are the secrets of a great jawline? First with the subject square to the camera, get them to move just their head forwards and down. The photo on left is a typical pose. The next tip is to get the subject to move one shoulder forward and down whilst gently tilting the head in the opposite direction to that shoulder. So there you have it, a one stop solution for the dreaded double chins. For Further Training on Using Off-Camera Light Sources: They can be found here sold together at a discount: Making Light I & II