Introduction to Aperture - Digital Photography School

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been writing a series of posts on elements that digital photographers need to learn about in order to get out of Auto mode and learn how to manually set the exposure of their shots. I’ve largely focussed upon three elements of the ‘exposure triangle‘ – ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture. I’ve previously written about the first two and today would like to turn our attention to Aperture.Before I start with the explanations let me say this. If you can master aperture you put into your grasp real creative control over your camera. In my opinion – aperture is where a lot of the magic happens in photography and as we’ll see below, changes in it can mean the difference between one dimensional and multi dimensional shots.

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Cheat Sheet: How to Get Metering and Exposure Right - Digital Photography School

A really useful chart illustrating the major decisions of exposure, over at Digital Photography School.

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Match Total Exposure | The Underused Lightroom Feature You'll Now Make A Staple

If you’re in Lightroom editing a session’s worth of images, it’s probably fair to assume you have implemented bracketing into your shooting. It’s also fair to assume you have a sequence of shots, even if not bracketed, that were taken in the same lighting environment and thus may warrant having the same exposure. You could go through each image and fine tune them, and judging by eye to see when they are balanced and equal, but there’s a much faster and exact way to do this, and it’s as simple as selecting and clicking.

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Step By Step How to Do a Head Shot on a White Background - Digital Photography School

Today you are going to come ride along with me as I shoot head shots for a client in San Diego, California. I was hired by a company to create simple head shots of their instructors in the San Diego area.There is a very big market for head shots and quite a few people want them shot on a white infinity backdrop. There are many ways to do this but I’m going to take you along on a shoot with me and show you how I do it:

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The Where To Start Chart Is An Ultimate One Stop Educational Tool For Learning Photography - DIY Photography

If there’s one thing we I love more than kittens and infographics, it’s flowcharts. And Mark Wallace has made the ultimate, interactive flowchart aimed at educating photographers one step at a time. Wallace, who aside from being a great photographer, is well known for his awesome teaching style, having produced 100′s of informative video tutorials for AdoramaTV. Wallace has come up with a great way to help keep all those videos organized into an easy to follow photography guide, by way of the Where To Start Chart.

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Firecrest 16 Stops ND Filters IRND 4.8 by Formatt-Hitech – Full Review | Julia Anna Gospodarou - Architect | B&W Fine Art Photographer

Re-blogged from the blog of Julia Anna Gospodarou

In this review I will talk about the brand-new Formatt-Hitech filter, the Firecrest 16 16 ND stops in one filter, this is what 16 stands for. This is the most neutral and, in its circular version, the slimmest stackable ND filter in the world, only 5.5mm thin.

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How to Photograph Birds in Flight

A fantastic tutorial by Richard Peters at www.naturettl.com

It can be incredibly rewarding to photograph birds in flight. Equally, however, there can be nothing more frustrating than the very same thing. As with any and all types of wildlife photography, success is down to a combination of the usual factors which you have to juggle with: namely, light vs shutter speed vs aperture vs ISO. Unless you are fortunate enough to live in one of the sunnier parts of the world, you’ll rarely have the ability to photograph every bird in flight at f8, 1/8000 sec and ISO 100 and to be honest ....

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Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Jeffrey’s Autofocus Test Chart

A cracking article on Jeffrey Friedl's blog about testing the autofocus on your camera and lenses ...

This post describes an autofocus test chart I've developed, why I think it's better than others I've seen, and how to use it to test the autofocus of your camera and lens:

1. Introduction


2. What Makes a Good Test Chart


3. How to Print It (downloading offered here)


4. Preparing to Use It


5. Taking the Shot


6. Interpreting the Results

1. Introduction

If you suspect that your modern SLR or SLR lens has autofocus problems, you can use a chart like the one offered on this page to perform some tests.

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