Tutorials

A Small Thank-You to all who came before me on the net with advice, lessons and information….

When I first decided I needed to learn more than just placing my camera in Auto and pushing a button, my husband and I were already driving a big rig for a living and my father had passed away a few years earlier. My father would have been the one I would have called to ask questions about how to do this or that with a camera. Both he and my Uncle Carl (who had also passed away) were avid hobby photographers. They developed their own film, had too many cameras to count between them and had a great love for photography. So, I had to learn all about aperture, shutter speed, ISO and how they relate to exposure on my own. Thank goodness for the internet! I joined several online forums, posted images, asked questions, read all that I could find on photography and cameras. I must admit it was tough going, though there was a lot of info from different sites, I wasn’t able to mix all the information in my brain and make it come out so that I could understand it. One day, however, I came across a site that presented the equation in an algebraic way, this-1 + this-2 + this-3 = that-4 and that if you put together this-2 + this-1 + this-3 it still equals that-4. Ha! Doesn’t make sense now, but just you wait! Everything clicked into place for me and this brings me to the Give Back part… Once I managed to figure out some few simple basic things I began to learn a lot and I want to share the things I’ve learned in a simple concise way so that others might avoid having to sift through a multitude of sites to learn some basic information which will put you on the path to a happier time taking photographs. A few years ago I wrote some tutorials, which I will share with you. I hope you enjoy them and that it helps you in some way. These tutorials will not make you an instant professional photographer by any means, however, I do hope they will at least improve the consistency of getting a good shot when you want one.

The Rules of Composition
 
ISO
 
Aperture and Depth of Field
 
Shutter Speed
 
Exposure