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Finding the Right Creative Exposure

Most photographic opportunities you’ll find yourself in will allow you a very large freedom of “technically correct exposure” equations to use.

How To Measure Light With Your Camera

Measuring light in photography is an art as well as a science.  This combination of technical knowledge and artistic vision is essential to using creative exposure techniques and making better photos.

Combining the art and science of measuring light is used to establish a base reading for setting your exposure.  You can use this reading as [...]

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 [...]

In Camera Light Meter

Often times when photographers are learning about exposure in digital photography they neglect to consider how important the light meter is in determining the outcome of your photograph.  This is especially true in many of the auto or semi-auto exposure modes.

Today’s cameras are built with light meters inside.  These handy little computers are used to [...]

Why Exposure Matters

Often times, in photography, we talk about exposure. Perhaps we refer to getting a correct exposure, underexposing, or overexposing.

So what the heck is exposure?
Try to think of the camera’s primary function. It isn’t just to record the scene before you. It’s to collect and record light. In photographic terms, exposure refers [...]

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 [...]

The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure [Book Review]

Special thanks to Amphoto Books and Watson-Guptill Publications for providing this month’s Photography Book Club selection.
The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure (BetterPhoto Series) by Sean Arbabi
By most photographer’s standards, the quest for consistently great exposure control is the holy grail of technical expertise. This book aims at helping you reach that goal.
About the Author
Sean Arbabi [...]

The Exposure Equation

In trying to grasp the technical aspects of photography exposure is the foundation. It is absolutely fundamental to understand the how’s and why’s of exposure in order to be able to truly capture and manipulate light. Light is after all what we are capturing in photography. More specifically; reflected light.
In Light & [...]

Understanding Exposure [Book Review]

I was pretty excited to get my copy of Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition) in the mail from Amazon. I had heard such wonderful things about the scope of this photography book that it really should have been in my library long ago.
Understanding Exposure: [...]

Light & Exposure [Book Review]

Described as a pragmatic guide for digital photographers looking for a creative way to explore the world, Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers really emphasizes that equipment alone won’t help you capture compelling images. Of course this is a topic we speak about often here at Your Photo Tips.

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Quick Photo Tip
Do not be confused by the term “shutter speed”. Shutter speed isn’t about speed really. It’s about duration of time. Or more specifically, the duration of time that the shutter is open, allowing the light from the subject to come through the lens aperture and be recorded by the sensor [...]

6 Tips to Getting Super Sharp Photographs!

There are several things that occur while taking a photograph that can produce unwanted results. Often I will find images would have been much better had they just been sharp! Sometimes we can use blur to our advantage, but when we don’t need it, well we just don’t need it. Here [...]