To Be a Photographer http://www.tobeaphotographer.com Find out what it takes to be a photographer ... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:17:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Understanding Exposure http://www.tobeaphotographer.com/?p=1 http://www.tobeaphotographer.com/?p=1#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:31:29 +0000 gvajdos http://69.49.240.44/?p=1 Continue reading →]]> Nearly everyone at some point has started out with a point-and-shoot camera and then decided at some point to step up to a film or digital SLR camera.  Then once they get that digital SLR camera, they keep the setting on Auto without ever learning why they might want to use any of the other settings.  Well, if you’ve ever seen those pictures of a subject who is sharply in focus while the rest of the image is “blurry”, that image was probably taken using those other settings.

For an excellent description of how to get varying levels of that effect using the different settings on your camera, and how those settings achieve that effect, I highly recommend the book Understanding Exposure, by Bryan Peterson.  This is the book that finally got me off of the Auto mode and into Aperture Priority and finally Manual.  Happy reading, and good luck with using all those other settings on your camera.

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