All Entries in the "Definitions" Category
Understanding Exposure Meter Settings
All digital cameras have an exposure meter of some sort. Most models have multiple exposure patterns for measuring the light hitting your camera’s sensor. Let’s take a quick look at three of the most common type of exposure meter patterns.
Center-weighted
In center-weighted meter mode your camera’s sensor is going to take a measurement of [...]
Defining Macro Photography
Often times people can confuse the meaning of macro photography. We’ll try to clear that up for you.
The definition of macro photography is photography at “life size”. Technically speaking, macro photography is photography that is at 1X magnification and/or greater.
Or to put it more simply; the size of the subject in real life [...]
What is Shutter Speed?
Often times it’s good to have a quick definition of a term or component of photography to use as reference. This way you don’t have to be embarrassed not to know. Today we discuss…quickly…
Shutter Speed
One of the main components of exposure, shutter speed, is the rate at which the shutter, opens and closes [...]
Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO
In thinking about exposure and the photographic triangle we often talk about the three elements that make up the photographic triangle. Simply put, they are; aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
But what exactly are aperture, shutter speed, and ISO? Here’s a quick rundown of these common terms of photography.
Aperture
Every SLR and DSLR (and many [...]
Bokeh
Most people don’t realize exactly how new the term Bokeh, as pertaining to photography, really is (it was probably coined around the late 1990’s). Derived from the Japanese word bokeaji meaning “fuzzy”, bokeh refers to the area of a photograph that is out of focus. That’s it. Simple really.
Often, however, you will [...]
Depth OF Field Simplified
Often times as a beginner photographer I would read forums and magazines as well as books to get a better grasp of this whole photography thing. It wasn’t until a recent email that I was reminded that there was once a time when I didn’t know all of the terminology that comes with this [...]
