This is my first post of the basic things about
photography that I’ve learned from our visual communication meeting. Everything
went well and productive. Some of the things that I’m confused about before are
now getting into my understanding. I’m glad that our professor who’s a
professional photographer already (here’s his site), taught things to us, the
beginners, in a way we could understand the-pro-stuffs that he’s explaining.
I learned that
photography is an art where we draw with
light. Since the light is the main element in photography, therefore we
must study first the basic functions of some of the features in the cameras
which are focused on controlling the light in different ways. Those are the: 1. Shutter speed, 2. Aperture, and ISO
(International Standard Organization).
To be more
organized and understandable, below is the bulleted list of the things I’ve
learned about the three:
A. Shutter
speed
·
It is concerned on how long the exposure of
light will takes place in a shot.
·
I learned that it can be a fast one or a slow
one.
·
I now know what’s with 1/60 or 1/250 when it
comes to shutter speed; the denominator determines how many times you will
divide 1 second for a shot’s light exposure.
·
The minimum shutter speed is at 60th
so it won’t be blurry
·
There are requirements when it comes to
shooting slower speeds such as a strong posture, stable hand, and easy
breathing.
·
If I want to keep my photo have a good glow
and moderate light, I shouldn’t forget that the more light, the faster shutter and
the less light, the slower shutter.
B. Aperture
·
It is the hole in lens and can vary sizes
depending on the type lens.
·
Through
it is the way to control light.
·
It has something to do with the f/1.4, f/1.8,
and etcetera that I see in DSLRs.
·
The higher the aperture’s denominator, the
smaller the hole became. Meaning f/2 has bigger hole than of f/16.
C. ISO/International Standard Organization
·
It is the sensitivity of light.
·
The higher the ISO, the brighter the image
will be.
·
Based on my notes also, 400 as ISO will be
enough for beginners but however, you should still try to experiment with your
camera.
I always
encounter terms like .JPEG, .PNG, and also .GIF especially whenever I need
something to save in my file. I’m glad that we also had a little discussion
about them and to explain it well, here they go:
.JPE/G means
Joint Photographic Experts / Group which
supports 16 Million Colors while
.GIF
means Graphic Interchange Format and
supports transparency. There’s also the
.PNG
which means Portable Network Graphics
and works like the two which I have mentioned above. I remember when I made my
banner image on my Tumblr blog, what I’ve got as a border design was in a .png
format. We also encountered
DNG
meaning Digital Negative stuffs for
lightrooms/ photoshops.
Our first
meeting I think was already a success because we were able to grasp the ideas
and information given to us at the same time having some fun while learning.
There are more things that we should know about photography but we should not
feel down because that’s part of the process. Like what our Professor told us,
Henrie Cartner Besson once said that a person’s first 10,000 photos are the
worst. Why? It’s because learning and development really take a long time and
perseverance. What we should not stop doing is to practice and practice.
Who knows
maybe one day, one of us who are not knowledgeable about photography, would be
the most in demand and famous photographer someday?