ISO 3200 inside a dark church. ( 1/40th sec F4)

Photography Fundamentals - Exposure Part 1 - ISO

March 02, 2018 in Tutorial

Over the next few posts on The Craft Blog we will be looking at the three exposure variables (ISO, Shutter Speed, Aperture).

As we move forward with these tutorials we will break things down and work through shooting in different environment's / situations to help drill all this technical info in.

To begin with we will be looking at ISO.

What is ISO? - ISO is basically the sensitivity of your cameras sensor to ANY light source in the scene but if you want to get real technical is is digital gain/amplification control.

As we change the ISO value we affect the exposure of ANY light source within a scene. Let's break it down some more.

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Critiques Get Your Critiques Here...

January 07, 2018 in Critique

Some of you may remember that I use to do critique videos, well I am starting those back up again. Now before we get in to this I want to make it clear that I am more interested in critiquing portrait work or work with people in it, and not landscapes, pictures of cats.

Portrait work covers allot of areas from simple head shots to wedding or fashion.

Many of us know it sucks trying to decide which of your images make it in to the portfolio. Putting a portfolio together or doing a refresh is definitely not something that makes you want to jump for joy.

G.A.S - Gear Acquisition Syndrome (What you have is fine)

January 06, 2018 in Gear, The Craft

Gear - That stuff we need as a photographer.

A Camera & Lens. Sounds pretty simple when you put it like this and its all you need getting started and also for a lot of work.

You buy your first camera and start taking photos of everything around you, then you get bitten. That little bastard of a bug called GAS is a sneaky little S.O.B and will strike many times through a photographer’s life.

Once bitten you start looking at new gear…