The third essential creative option is the ISO setting in your camera. The ISO has one function, to make your image appear brighter. By raising the setting, you increase the illumination level of the image. Keep in mind that you are not actually adding any real light to your picture, you’re just making the final image brighter. The ISO To get a…
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The Shutter Speed: Essential Creative Option #2
The second essential creative option is the shutter speed. Depending on your camera make and model, you will have upwards of 56 shutter speed options, ranging from 1/8000th of a second to 30 full seconds (30″). You may also have a bulb setting (B or Bulb) which allows even greater exposure times. The Shutter Speed Your primary goal when choosing a shutter speed…
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The Aperture: Essential Creative Option #1
The first essential creative option is the aperture. Your first structural control is the aperture, the size of which creates the amount of depth of field (the breadth of focus) your image receives. Get this wrong, choose the size of the aperture incorrectly and your light is corrupted, your image is blurry and your message lies unreadable. Yes, it’s that important. The Aperture The word aperture…
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The Structure Of Your Image
Of the 12 essential creative options, the first six revolve around the very light you’ll be allowing into your camera that makes up the structure of your image. The Structure Of Your Image Your first priority as a photographer is to control, create and manipulate light … after all, that’s what the word photography means, to literally write with…
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In Camera Magic: The 12 Essential Creative Options Introduction
True visualization, true ‘in camera magic’ happens when you get to know each of these 12 essential creative options personally … when you spend time, energy and focus making them work. Changing Shape of Photography I grew up believing in something called the ‘exposure triangle.’ It was a training device (a visual aid of sorts) that reminded photographers how the mechanics…
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The Time Photography Clicked For Me
This Throwback Thursday highlights the Aha moment when photography clicked for me. It was with this simple little leaf isolated in a sea of black that I understood photography wasn’t about taking … it was about creating. The time photography clicked for me Throwback Thursday In 2003, I took a photography class from a wonderfully inspiring and passionate man named…
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