Photography Induction

Today I finally learned what all of the buttons on a DLSR camera actually mean, which was extremely useful! 

So the first thing you have to do when renting out a camera is to format the memory card and clear settings so that no one else's photos are clogging up photo space. Then you have to set the ISO, the white balance and the file type (TIFF or JPEG).

We then learned about exposure which was really interesting. This is how light or dark an image is, which depends on three things:

Shutter Speed- How quickly the image is captured, also how much light is let in depending on how slow/fast the shutter speed is. 

Aperture- How much light is let in. For example a wide aperture will be lighter than a narrow aperture.

ISO- Basically how grainy the photo is. A slow ISO e.g. 100 lets in less light but is firer, whereas a fast iso e.g. 3200 is noisier (has more grain)

When it came to trying out these techniques for ourselves I was a little daunted and confused, but after playing around and testing the different settings I eventually got the hang of it. 

Shallow depth of field- focusing on an
object in the foreground causing background
blur.

Shallow depth of field, this time focusing
on the object in the background allowing
the foreground to become out of focus.

Slow shutter speed using a tripod, showing
multiple movements in one frame.