ƒ/8 Assignment - practicing what we have learned

ƒ/8 Assignment - practicing what we have learned

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Camera Basics - Getting to know your DSLR Camera

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Before You Start

  • What you will need to take this course.
  • How to properly hold your camera
  • How to set aperture priority - Canon
  • How to set aperture priority mode - Nikon
  • How to set aperture priority mode - Sony

Aperture

  • Aperture Lesson Overview
  • What is the aperture of a camera?
  • Big is small and small is big.
  • Picture Time!
  • Aperture

ƒ 5.6 - Eyes Wide Open

  • Poppies - What ƒ/5.6 or a wide open aperture does for an image.
  • Red Rose - Aperture 5.6 - Isolating a subject with background blur
  • Too Busy - Aperture 5.6 -objects that are the same distance away from the camera lens.
  • Aperture 5.6 - Assignment
  • Depth of field and aperture value ƒ/5.6 revisited

ƒ/8 - Great Starting Point for Beginners

  • Stopping down to ƒ/8
  • Bringing your whole subject into focus
  • ƒ/8 and ƒ/11 are good midrange apertures and a great place to start.
  • ƒ/8 - sometimes referred to as the "Who cares" aperture.
  • ƒ/8 Assignment - practicing what we have learned

ƒ/22 - Small aperture with a deep depth of field.

  • Stop. Stop. Stop.
  • ƒ/22 Everything from front to back in sharp focus
  • Focus .. Focus ...

Depth of field

  • Depth of Field
  • Depth of field revisited - A quick overview of depth of field
  • Depth of field Chart
  • Review your pictures!
  • Aperture exit questionaire

ISO

Delayed 5 days

  • ISO - A not so precise description.

The Exposure Triangle - putting it all together

Delayed 7 days

  • To dark or not too dark?
  • Don't look into the .. oh never mind.