Welcome to Chapter 2: Balancing Light. In our previous chapter, we talked about how to read and measure the light in an image by looking at your in-camera meter and your histogram. Up until now, if you are shooting in auto, your camera has been balancing the light for you to get a properly exposed photo. Now
Welcome back! In my first post, Introduction to Photography through Light, I briefly introduced the concept that you camera measures light in monotones. Where one extreme is solid black or darkness and the other extreme is solid white or brightness. Right in the middle of these two extremes is neutral gray, which conceptually is “proper exposure”. Thankfully, getting an
What is a Histogram? A histogram is an incredibly useful tool to understand as you learn your camera settings and strive for properly exposed images. Therefore, this lesson is devoted to explaining all about the graph you see both when you look at an image on the back of your camera display, and also when
Welcome to my first post in a series: Introduction to Photography through Light. Together we are going to learn photography through the examination of light. If you are looking for online photography tutorials, there are a lot of them out there all written from slightly different perspectives. And, I encourage you to check out a few.
Let’s be honest, photography gear is expensive and the options of what you could buy are endless. As a beginner, knowing what to buy first can be overwhelming, and, although, I have heard a lot of arguments that good gear does not necessarily make the photographer, there is some gear that will definitely make it