Mastering Your Camera

 What would you like to get out of this class?

 What kind of camera do you have?
 What type of photos are you interested in
taking?
Compact/P n’ S or DSLR
Lets Get Started!
Canon Dial Nikon Dial
Camera Select Both Shutter &
Aperture
 S or TV Mode on your camera

You Select The Shutter Speed

Your camera’s light meter will evaluate the light and
select the aperture
 A or AV Mode on your camera

You Select The Aperture

Your camera’s light meter will evaluate the light and
select the shutter speed
 You Select The Aperture and
the Shutter Speed
Your camera’s light meter will evaluate the light and
let you know when you got the right exposure
1. Visualize what you want to shoot
2. Brightness of the scene
3. How long and how much
4. The sensitivity of your sensor
Measured by your camera’s light meter
HOW LONG Shutter speed
HOW MUCH Aperture
HOW LONG Shutter speed

Measured in time values

Fast Shutter Speed = 1/4000th of a second
(outdoors with lots of sunlight)

Medium Shutter Speed = 1/250th of a second

(indoors or outdoors, it is the max shutter speed
when using a flash)

Slow Shutter Speed = 1/10th of a second

(usually indoors with low light)
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Time For Some Football

HOW MUCH Aperture

Measured in aperture values or

f-stops
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Lets Shoot Some Objects!

Work on Depth of Field

Measured in ISO
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Stay in Your Seats For This One

Too Dark? Brighten it up

 Auto Fortunate
White ly, most
Balance digital
cameras
Custom contain a
Kelvin variety of
preset
white Tungsten
balances,
so you do
Fluoresce
not have
nt
to deal
with color Daylight
temperat
Flash
ure and
green- Cloudy
magenta
shift
during
the
critical
shot. Co
mmonly
used
symbols
for each
of these
are listed
to the
left.The
first three
white
balances
allow for
a range
of color
temperat
ures. Aut
o white
balance is
available
in all
digital
cameras
and uses
a best
guess
algorithm
within a
limited
range--
usually
between
3000/400
0 K and
7000
K. Custo
m white
balance a
llows you
to take a
picture of
a known
gray
reference
under the
same
lighting,
and then
set that
as the
white
balance
for future
photos.
With
"Kelvin"
you can
set the
color
temperat
ure over
a broad
range.
Shade
The
remaining
six white
balances
are listed
in order
of
increasing
color
temperat
ure,
however
many
compact
cameras
do not
include a
shade
white
balance.
Some
cameras
also
include a
"Fluoresc
ent H"
setting,
which is
designed
to work in
newer
daylight-
calibrated
fluoresce
nts.
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