Digital Photo - How to Video Guides
Start Taking Better Shots With Your DSLR.
Warning: These hands-on, creative video guide techniques could seriously improve your digital pictures.
Who is in charge of your pictures... You or your camera?
Start taking charge of your DSLR's creative modes and you will soon be shooting better pictures.The Camera is a Tool
An advanced and hugely creative tool, yes, but a tool nonetheless. Its function is to record light, nothing more, and the way it does this is up to you, so no matter how advanced or expensive it is, without you it's useless, just like a hammer sitting on a workbench. Essentially, it's the way you tell your camera to record light that defines you as a photographer.That might sound a bit worthy, but it's only when you start to realise that you're the one who's in control that you will begin taking the kind of pictures you really want to. If you lack the skills to tell your camera exactly how you want it to function, results will always disappoint and you will never truly feel 'in charge'.
Who is in Control?
Modern digital cameras - even DSLR's are designed to make picture taking easier than ever before. The Auto and Scene modes can cope with a vast array of conditions, and produce okay pictures, but use these and your results will forever be ensalved by your camera's digital brain.It's only by pushing your camera into Aperture priority or full Manual mode that you can start making real desicions about the way that light enters the camera and for how long - the fundamentals of creative photography.
Delve further into your DSLR settings and you will learn how metering and flash units can be controlled to produce stunning pictures.
