February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
6h 47m
English
Content preview from Beyond Auto Mode: A Guide to Taking Control of Your Photography
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PART 1: UNDERSTANDING EXPOSURE
It seems so simple at first—buy a camera and start taking pictures. The better the camera, so the assumption goes, the better the pictures. For something so popular, though, good photography requires much more than a good camera.
In the previous section, “The Quick Start Guide to Manual Mode,” you learned about the exposure triangle—the three elements (ISO, shutter speed, and aperture) required to make a well-exposed photograph. You were also introduced to some technical terms like stop and f/stop, as well as overexposure and underexposure. It was a crash course in the basics of making images.
Just as with anything in life, though, the most basic information can take you only so far. The next few chapters provide the details to fill in the blanks and answer questions you may have after reading the Quick Start Guide. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 cover the points of the exposure triangle while Chapters 4 and 5 take you on a journey of how to see and use light.
At this point I want to encourage you to be patient with yourself. You’ll grasp some of these concepts easily, while others will take you longer to master. Personally, I found the best way to understand each concept was to make pictures and study them. With your digital camera, you are able to check, and correct, your results immediately by viewing each image on your LCD screen.
If possible, keep ...
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