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Photography Tutorials
This section contains tutorial articles on photography. Some are about photography in general and others on specific aspects of digital photography. It will take some time to develop this section fully, but we will push to build a fairly comprehensive list of articles over the next few weeks.
Basic Tutorials
Exposure
The term exposure in photography refers to the act of exposing the camera’ film or image sensor (as in the case of digital cameras) to light, light eminating from the subject you want to photograph and which is channeled through the lens and focused thereby. As such, exposure settings relate to the reducing and increasing the length of time that the image sensor is exposed to the light, the narrowing and widening of the opening of the lens which permits light to pass through it, and the setting of the sensitivity of the image sensor (or chosing of film of a particular sensitivity)
Camera Modes
To make photographing easier, as well as to assist photographers when timing is critical, DSLR and better compact digital cameras are provided with different automated and semi-automated modes related to exposure settings. This set of articles attempt to
Composition and Design
Composing
Composition of a photography relates to where one points the camera: which direction, which angle, how close or zoomed in or out (in the case of zoom lenses). It can be where you position objects or persons in the frame of the camera’s view finder, which ultimately leads to the frame of the resulting photograph. Positioning can be set by the photograph moving things in their view—removing trash from the scene, having a model turn a certain way—or it can be determined by the photographer moving herself and her camera to a different spot for a better organization and angle of the scene.
Studio Tutorials
Studio Portraits
These articles cover how to set up studio lights for portraits.
Writing Tutorials
As mentioned in a few places on this site, this site is still very new and we’re still developing the basics of this site. However, if you’re in this section of the site, you’re probably interested in learning more about photography. We’re writing as fast as we can to create a set of basic tutorials. To start, we’ve created placeholders for some articles for our internal planning and to indicate to readers that they’re coming. If you don’t we an article or placeholder for a topic that you feel should be covered, please let us know so that we can add it.
