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Don’t worry about memorizing it, but this acronym stands for International Standards Organization and it’s the third component of the exposure triangle. You may also be familiar with the similar term “ASA” if you shot film. The easiest, and most common (albeit imperfect) way to explain this is that ISO is “the sensitivity of the …
Point-and-shoot cameras are nearing obsolescence largely due to cell phones. This is a term historically used to describe a small camera with a fixed lens, smaller sensor (1/8″ CCD), utilizing a separate-from-the-lens viewfinder or LCD screen on the back. These sorts of cameras don’t get much attention in a world where everyone has similar-quality cameras …
Just like shutters on a window, your camera has a shutter which opens and closes to allow a certain amount of light to hit the sensor. Your shutter is controlled by a time value and is simply the amount of time the sensor is “open” to the light. Obviously the longer you leave the shutters …
ADC “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Someone “Creativity craves constraint.” Someone else “Creativity is inversely proportional to the amount of tools you have to work with.” Equally uncitable The quotes above reflect a common theme; it’s one I’m terribly enthused by and a concept I term “Availability Determined Creativity”, or ADC since everyone loves …
This may be the most important lesson of the course. One principle I constantly reiterate is that artistic work should be intentional rather than incidental. You’re creating something you intended to make rather than relying on chance or coincidence to produce something interesting. Anyone can take a picture, and it’s not that hard to click …
Note that holding Shift plus any of these will toggle through their associated tool options. Cmd+F produces a nifty find window that lets you search for any command or layer by name. The number keys (on the top of the keyboard and the numpad) adjust opacity. If a tool with opacity control is selected, they …
Photography lets me show others how I see the world. -Preet N. Shoos Underwhelming as it sounds, unless you have a physical disability, it’s often the photos that look least like the way we all see the world that look the coolest. Here’s a way to generate hundreds of different shots from the same subject. …
How open is your lens? Small f-stop = big depth of field and vice versa. The bigger the hole the more light gets through. This is confusing because the aperture is described in terms of something called an “f-stop” and the smaller the f-stop number the larger the aperture’s opening is, e.g. f1.4 is a …
Your lens projects its circular image onto your camera’s sensor. The image circle could be smaller or larger than your sensor–the lens doesn’t care. So what would happen if your sensor is significantly smaller than the image circle projected by the lens? You’d see only the center of the image. And vice versa, what happens …