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Help a UGSer with photography basics?

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  1. Hi all,

    Daniel (Chong) recently asked me to give him links to basic photography tutorials (his actual words were: 'can share with me a website that teaches photography terms? Like ... aperture. Or the meaning between diff type of lenses or why the heck there's a mm range at all')

    He's going to India soon, you see, and there's probably going to be many photo opportunities there. So he wants to know the basics.

    I told him I'll open this thread and have the rest of the UGS community post up links and advice and things like that. So let's give him a hand! =)

    Me first:

    I scouted around a bit and found these two pages to be useful:

    Photography Basics by Tutorial9

    About.com's introductory page to photography

    Seriously though, the only thing you need to understand is the relationship between shutter speed, aperture and ISO. The technical bits of photography are comparatively easy. Shouldn't take you long to get up to speed. =)

    Posted 1 month ago #
  2. Ok, i've only touched a DSLR once and thats Samantha's one to take pictures of Sean during a gathering eons ago.

    So, actually. Like lets say I want to take pictures in my garden. Does that mean I have to manually set the aperture of the camera.. and the shutter speed... and the ISO..? How would I possibly know whats the correct settings to use?

    I sound so noob.

    Posted 1 month ago #
  3. www.kenrockwell.com

    I always go to that site to check out some of his articles.

    Posted 1 month ago #
  4. Loving that website, KC! Thanks :)

    (And you too Cedric XD)

    Posted 1 month ago #
  5. Before I got Miera, I was hell intimidated by all the unknown terms that came along with a DSLR.

    What-perture? ISOhhhh? Exposure to???

    Then I found this site and BANG. I was a much learned person.

    DSLR for noobs

    Works for compacts as well since its the same terminology I guess.

    Posted 1 month ago #
  6. hahaha wtf I hovered my cursor and saw a canon there. Nyahahah

    Btw, you named your SLR? Mine's call Bob!! :P

    Posted 1 month ago #
  7. Cruxstone Alias
    Member

    Isn't that Ced's mac's name?

    Posted 1 month ago #
  8. Oops... haha I just made that up. :D

    Posted 1 month ago #
  9. And once you're done with the basics, you can always go to www.smugmug.com and click browse at the bottom of the page. You should be able to get plenty of inspiration from there lol.

    Posted 1 month ago #

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