THE MANUAL CAMERA
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camera settings
ISO (sensitivity to light) is a setting on your camera that controls the darkness or brightness of a photograph. As you increase your ISO, your photograph becomes brighter, which means you can take clear photos in a dull environment, meaning you don’t have rely on the time or weather. It helps to maintain a proper exposure for the setting of the shoot. You have to be careful when adjusting the ISO as if it is too low, you will have a very dull unclear image, but if it is too high then the image will be grainy and become blurry.
Shutter speed (how long the image has been exposed to light) can allow you to take full creative control of your camera. Fast shutter speed can be used to freeze motion or action. It can be used to capture pictures of fast moving things such as athletes and wildlife. Slow shutter speed meaning the shutter is opened for a longer period of time allows more light to be recorded so that moving objects appear blurred. This is commonly used at nighttime or in low light conditions or when we want to capture motion blur. For example, you can take pictures of cars, waves someone running, anything with movement.
Aperture (the opening of the leas’ diaphragm where light passes through and falls on the image sensor). The lower f/stops gives more exposure because they represent the larger apertures. Whereas higher f/stops give less exposure because they represent smaller apertures. Apertures just the depth of field in a scene. It can blur everything in front and behind the focused subject.
fast shutter speed
slow shutter speed
