Simply said, your focal length is the physical distance between your image sensor and the point where light converges inside your lens. This distance is measured in millimetres (mm), and is explicitly stated on your lens. Your lens’ focal length determines your angle of view. As we have mentioned in our camera basics section, your…
Photography essentials: Everything you need to get a basic understanding of lenses
Lenses are the one of the most important, if not THE most important, aspect among photography equipment. Lenses are what help your image sensor ‘see’ clearly. Let’s take your eye, for example. Inside your eye, there is a structure which helps with refracting incoming light on your retina. However, instead of a retina, your camera…
Photography essentials: Your ultimate guide to different camera types
With technology advancing in such a rapid pace, camera manufacturers have been able to produce different cameras, each with its advantages and disadvantages. Depending on what your needs are for photography, you will most likely choose one type over the other. However, though technology has advanced so far, there will be trade-offs with each camera….
Photography essentials: Your must-read guide to image sensors
Technology is incredible! New developments, new product evolutions, new cameras! Without the advancement in technology, we would not have image sensors in our digital cameras. We might have still be stuck in medieval times! Well, perhaps not that far back. But the possibilities that these sensors bring to photography has revolutionized our craft! As we…
Photography essentials: Your indispensable guide to cameras
By the time that you are reading this, you are either in the process of looking for a new camera, or you already own one and simply want to acquire more information on the different types out there. Perhaps it is even your first camera.. in that case, welcome to the club! Understanding the camera…
ISO
Back in the days when people were taking photos on film, the rolls of film came in various sensitivities. The more sensitive the film was, the less light was needed to obtain a good exposure. This meant that people could use faster shutter speeds or smaller apertures to get their desired results and allowed for…
Shutter speed
The easiest factor to understand which influences your exposure is your shutter speed. Have you ever taken a photo of your pet, or even your friend, while he/she was running around? And how did that photo turn out? Blurry? Simply a lucky guess, right? Well, not really… We will explain to you how this works…
Aperture
One of the three factors to control your exposure is your aperture. The aperture is the mechanical iris, consisting of a number of aperture blades, inside your camera lens that controls how much light it lets through to be exposed on your camera sensor. Similar to a camera lens, your eyes also have the capability…
Photography essentials: Your invaluable guide to perfect exposures
Amazing! You have just made the decision to bring your creative ambitions to the next level, and took a leap of faith to face the challenge of understanding how to shoot manually with a camera! For many an intimidating step. You look at your camera, and you are seeing all these words, these numbers, icons,…