White balance is a digital camera setting that allows the colors in your photos to appear accurately. White balance gets it’s name because if a photo has correct white balance, things that are white in reality appear white in the photo. All other colors appear accurately too – blacks are pure black and gray are [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Lesson 12: Semi Automatic and Fully Manual Modes
October 28th, 2009 
Andrei APERTURE PRIORITY MODE (A or AV): This mode is really a semi-automatic (or semi-manual) mode where you choose the aperture and the camera chooses the shutter speed so as to ensure you have a well balanced exposure. Aperture priority mode is useful when you’re looking to control the depth of field in a shot (usually [...]
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Tags: aperture, depth of field, manual mode, semi automatic modes, the beginning 
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October 27th, 2009 Andrei I’ve decided to talk about Exposure Time and Aperture in the same lesson because it is a strong relation between them, which I’ll explain later. First I will discuss about each of them to help you understand them better. EXPOSURE TIME: The Exposure Time is the period of time in which the sensor will be [...]
Posted in Beginner's Tutorial Tags: aperture, depth of field, dof, exposure, exposure time 5 Comments »Lesson 10: Automatic modes
October 25th, 2009 Andrei So now you have your digital camera in your hands and you are about to take the first shots. Most beginners in this situation will put the camera into full auto mode, or into one of the auto mode presets. In this lesson we will talk about these modes so you can know their advantages [...]
Posted in Beginner's Tutorial Tags: automatic modes, landscape mode, macro mode, night mode, portrait mode Comments OffLesson 9: Batteries
October 21st, 2009 Andrei Batteries are another very important aspect that you will have to take into consideration. Some digital cameras (mainly the DSLRs) come with their own rechargeable batteries, so the only thing you can do after you get your camera is to see if this one is enough for you and if not, you can buy another [...]
