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Module 2 is about the exposure triangle. The ISO, aperture and shutter and how all 3 work together.

ISO

What is ISO? From the way I understand it from the many readings I did before I finally decided to take up this course, ISO is the measure of sensitivity of the sensor to the light. Meaning, that as you increase your ISO, the less sensitive the sensor is to the light and vice versa.

Why is  it important to know and understand this?

Sometimes, we get caught in a situation where there is not enough amount of light to take that shot and ISO 100 can’t make it anymore. One solution would be to jump up the ISO for a faster shutter speed, but keep in mind that as you increase the ISO, the more noise (grain) the image will have.

As they say the best ISO is between 100-400.

For further readings, here’s a link to one of my favorite photo sites .

Aperture

Aperture is like the window to the camera sensor and they are also known as the f-stops in photogs lingo.

What does this do?  This controls the opening of the camera lens to allow how much or how little light will hit the sensor. That simply means that the wider the aperture (small f-number) the more light hits the sensor and the narrower the aperture (high f-number) the lesser light will go through the lens and to the sensor.

Also with wide aperture there is shallow depth of field (DOF) which means that only a certain part of the whole picture will be in focus while it is the opposite for a larger depth of field.

For further reading: DPS Site

Shutter Speed

This determines the amount of time the lens is open to allow light it. It is measured in seconds; 1/1000 sec is faster than 1/30 for example.

What can this do? You can freeze motion or create motion blur depending on how fast or slow you set your shutter speed. This is like the ISO that the higher the number, the faster the shutter speed is. The only difference is with ISO you get noise as you go higher but with shutter speed, image quality stays the same.

Extra reading: DPS Site

This is how I understand the exposure triangle after reading the second module. Like me, experiment and explore how these 3 work altogether and see what it can do and we are on our way to taking better photos. Read and shoot, shoot, shoot.

To conclude this module, I submitted this for my assignment.

 

thanks to my one and only for helping me choose

 

I got a 10/10. Happy shooting and keep learning.

Recommended Read: Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson

9 outta ten!

that’s what I got for my first assignment…was not expecting to get that high a mark, but thanks. maybe I do understand a little more than what i think i do

by the way here’s my tutor, David Goldman’s site . hopefully one day I can earn my spot as well as all the pro photographers out there.

gotta take my rest now as I’m down with the flu…

there i go again…

Hello again cyber world…I am at this point in my life again…yes again…where I want to learn and do something new.  Everyday’s becoming a routine,which is what it is for most of us and I am thirsty for something new.

… something that I am really fond of and something that I wanted to do for a very long time but time permits, I am just so busy with I don’t know what and why.

one day while buying time in my place of work, I found an answer. I was at first hesitant but what the heck, if not now, when? So I enrolled myself for an online course in photography. It was a deal that made me think twice too and so I did. It’s a 12 module course and  I started a week ago.

Hopefully after this course I will be better at it and maybe I can shift careers too.

I’ve just finished and submitted my first assignment for module one tonight and waiting for my tutor to get back with results. I hope I did good. We’ll wait and see…

Now off to read module 2…

Gaining more knowledge and lesser brain fart.