{"id":3033,"date":"2014-07-19T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T04:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.severine-photography.com\/blog\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2014-07-19T00:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T04:20:46","slug":"basic-of-digital-photography-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/severine-photography.com\/blog\/basic-of-digital-photography-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic of digital photography 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been asked to teach a basic of digital photography \u00a0to a small group of people this Saturday and I thought that other people would be interested to. I am not saying that I have it right and that is the only way to teach but it is what I think is the most important to start. Please, understand that it is a really beginner class and I will add later more advance levels. I am a Nikon user so I will reference to what I know. The terms are the same but the function may be at different places.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the digital cameras are very good if you use them in exposure automatic mode. For Nikon this\u00a0mode is P. When you put the camera in P it will decide what is the best exposure for the picture. You will still be able to modify the setting but the camera will keep the right exposure for you.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s start to learn how to use your camera in M mode. M stands for Manual. First you need to learn how to expose the picture. A well exposed picture has some black and some white and all middle range tons. Obviously not all pictures will have all tons it depends on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The exposure depends on three factors, shutter speed, aperture and ISO. When you look through your view finder you will see at the bottom a line written \u00a0-2..-1..0..1..2.. \u00a0Sometimes you just have the line with dots (no numbers). For a perfect exposure you need to have the line exactly on the 0.<\/p>\n<p>Shutter speed is the speed that the camera takes to open and close the opening of the lens. When it&#8217;s bright it&#8217;s fast, when it&#8217;s dark it&#8217;s slow. You can&#8217;t go under 1\/80 of a second if you don&#8217;t use a tripod or your picture will be blurry because you are shaking. You can go as fast as you want.<\/p>\n<p>Aperture is the size of the opening of the lens. When it&#8217;s bright the opening is small (see figure 2) when it&#8217;s dark the opening is big (see figure 1).<\/p>\n<p>ISO is the sensors sensibility to the light.<\/p>\n<p>To start, try to keep your ISO at 200 outside and 400-500 inside. Then modify your settings until the line is at 0. Take the picture. You should have a perfect exposure. It&#8217;s important to understand that you need to modify those numbers each time you take a picture \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I will get in more details in my next post. 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