Ever take off a pair of orange-tinted goggles/glasses and get really excited that the world looks blue until you realize that everything looks back to normal again? That’s white balance. What’s White? We see things from sensing the light that reflects off of a object’s surface. Something white reflects an close to equal amount of [...]
I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about lenses, and I told him that I use a 24-70mm. He asks me, “is it 24-70mm on a crop sensor or full frame?” Let me make it clear; focal length is an optical property of a lens and DOES NOT change depending on [...]
The focal length of your lens determines how much “zoom” you have, in a sense of how large things show. Field of view (FOV) is the angle at which the camera can “see”. The shorter the focal length, the wider the field of view is from that lens. Vise versa, a longer focal length means [...]
The #1 reason for new DSLR users to be disappointed with their results is autofocus (AF). Unlike point-and-shoot cameras that focus automatically on faces and focus pretty much everywhere regardless of distance, the AF on DSLRs are complicated and more difficult to use. DSLRs use something called phase-detect AF to focus the camera, instead contrast-base [...]
Played around with your camera in manual mode and learned how to control shutter speed, aperture, and ISO to get a properly exposed photo? Are you pretty comfortable with it? If not, stop going any further and practice more. So do pros don’t use automatic modes? Of course they do. In addition to manual, most [...]
ISO is one of the components that control exposure, but unlike shutter speed and aperture, it doesn’t actually change the amount of light that hits the image sensor. Instead, it just changes the amount of light the sensor needs to receive to be “exposed”. ISO refers to the sensitivity of the image sensor. With higher [...]
