Last time, we started a new section with the topic of composition. We said that in this new section we will be putting our attention more on what is in front of our camera rather than the camera itself. We learned last time that composition is responsible for what your image will look like. To compose the image is to arrange the elements you are seeing to balance creativity and harmony. We also mentioned that composition can really make or break your image in a way because bad composition may lead to a plain or disorganized subject. There are a couple of guide questions that you may ask y ..read more

During the last article, we wrapped up another section that discussed a couple of key basics in photography. To be more exact, we discussed the Depth of Field, Low Light Photography, and Focusing. These three general and basic concepts are critical for you to progress in your journey as a beginner to a complete and versatile manual photographer. To review it, the Depth of Field is the distance of your subject from its background. Learning it will result to you mastering how to do bokeh shots and several more tricks concerning manipulating focus. Speaking of focus, focusing is a rather bas ..read more

During the last lesson, we focused our attention on answering the riddle that is shooting in low light. Light is the heart of photography and without it, shooting is just impossible. To shoot better photos in low light situations, we must understand that light isn’t truly lost but only diminished. There will always be light and shooting in dark situations only means that you have to find a way to extract all of the light you can. In order to do that, you would need to manipulate your exposure triangle which contains the elements of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. By widening your apert ..read more

During the last lesson, we devoted our time to learn how to shoot fast objects. Shooting fast objects is an essential skill for all photographers since having a fast subject is something that we couldn’t really control. Shooting fast objects, much any other skill in photography, involves learning the principles behind it and practicing every time. We mentioned that shooting fast objects is quite tricky since it involves manipulating the shutter speed. In order to shoot fast objects, we said that you needed to speed up your shutter speed to give you a shorter time frame for the shot thus m ..read more

Last time, our lesson was focused on the concept of Depth of Field. The Depth of Field is one of most important element in photography when talking about the topic of focusing. In order to properly understand the said concept, we looked at examples and visualized how it works. The Depth of Field pertains to the distance of the nearest object to the farthest one in the frame, usually the background. Knowing about the Depth of Field is fundamental knowledge, more so if you are starting to explore your creativity already in photography. We mentioned that the DOF is affected by two elements w ..read more

Last lesson, we started off the new section by discussing a very straightforward yet a very important thing in photography which is focusing. The importance of focusing properly is common knowledge already since, more often than not, a blurry image is an unusable one. We tackled the two focusing mechanisms, AF and MF, and how one can be better than the other depending on your camera or the situation you are in. We mentioned that using the Automatic Focus is a lot more convenient and fast as compared to its amnual counterpart. However, we also mentioned that the Manual Focus is the choice ..read more

During the last section, we focused on exposure and everything that we needed to know about it. Exposure is nothing short of an important concept in photography with it being part of your fundamentals as a photographer since it has everything to do with light. We discussed about the exposure and its components which are the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. From that section, you should now be currently equipped with the proper logic you need in order to take photos in any given situation. Learning exposure does not stop from knowing its properties and applications. Exposure is something ..read more

Last lesson, we talked about the different types of metering that you can set your camera to. The different types of metering each have their own ways of calculating exposure which is then show by the light meter. Knowing about the different types of metering is extremely critical in creating perfectly exposed photos. The different types of metering allow you to select different areas for exposure calculation thus giving you the flexibility to adjust accordingly. Matrix, center-weighted, and spot metering are the three types that we discussed last time. We mentioned that the spot metering ..read more

Last lesson, we devoted our time in learning the light meter. We said that the light meter is a very useful tool that helps photographers determine the exposure of their image even before they shoot the actual shot. The light meter is usually located on the topside of the camera, inside the viewfinder, or on the screen itself. Being a meter, the light meter appears to be a ruler with the integers -3 to 3 on it. We said that as the integer decreases, so does your exposure and that an image metered at zero is a well-balanced picture in terms of exposure. However, we also discussed that a wel ..read more

Last lesson we visualized the exposure triangle to finally complete our discussion on photography's most important shape. We mentioned that the exposure triangle is comprised of the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture. Finding the balance between the said elements is key to creating perfectly exposed images. However, we mentioned that finding the harmony among those elements is easier said than done but can be obtained by understanding the exposure triangle. Although ISO, shutter speed, and aperture have their own responsibilities and ways of managing the amount of light as seen in your image ..read more