Camera Basics - Getting to know your 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!
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

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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.

Before You Start

The information in this section is things you may want to know before you start and is full of useful hints and tips.

5 Lessons