This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John talks about ISO. What is ISO? ISO describes the sensitivity rating of your camera’s sensor. The sensor records the light that enters through the
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John tells how the aperture is fundamental to choosing a lens. Maximum aperture explained The maximum aperture describes a lens’s light-gathering ability when the aperture
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John covers depth of field. Depth of field With large apertures(low numbers, e.g., f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8) you can expect a shallow depth of field.
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John explains what the aperture does. Aperture is open for viewing and composing The mechanical device in the lens that changes the size of
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John gives an overview of the camera’s aperture. The aperture An aperture is an opening through which light travels. In a camera, it also
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John explores the creativity of slow shutter speeds. Slow the shutter To render a moving object blurry, you can use a slow shutter speed.
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John explains how to use the shutter to stop action. Camera shutter speeds Most cameras have shutter speeds that range from 1/4000 to 30
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week’s topic tell how the shutter effects the photograph. Shutter by numbers The shutter speed will impact a photograph in two ways: how much light
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. Mechanical shutters have been a part of photography since the very beginning, when the “shutter unit” was a lens cap or a hat in front of the lens.
This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The shutter speed describes the amount of time each pixel on the sensor is exposed to light. The actual speed of the shutter movement doesn’t change
Jordana Wright talks about choosing camera support for travel photography. This article outlines tripod options and more all from her book The Enthusiast’s Guide to Travel Photography published by Rocky Nook. Choose support wisely… Tripod mishaps can be epic. We don’t really think about how much trust we’re putting in
Jordana Wright talks about what you really need for travel photography. This article explains choosing the right lens. It’s from her book The Enthusiast’s Guide to Travel published by Rocky Nook. Carry every lens you’ve got or not… In the early days of my career, I used to travel with
