Composition

Camera Quiz

Lens Exploration

Focal length tells us the angle of view or how much of the scene is captured. It basically captures the scene or the subject based on how you focus it. Someone might choose to use different lenses depending on what they are capturing. For example someone can use the 18mm for landscape, 50mm for portrait, or 250mm for wildlife or sports depending on how close they are able to get close on the subject.

White Balance

White balance is balancing the light within a photo. It’s important to set the white balance in order to make the photo look as natural as possible. Your are basically trying to portrait the colors as accurately as your eyes can see them. To set a white balance, first you would take a picture of a blank white object on manual mode, manual focus, and custom white balance setting. Then, you would go to menu and under the second camera tab select custom white balance then press set twice to set. Then take a picture with the custom white balance and the colors should look as close to how you see it.

ISO

ISO

ISO is the sensitivity of the camera based on the amount of light it is receiving. In the camera pressing the ISO button (up arrow) button takes you to the setting where you select the ISO. The lower the number is the less grainy the picture will be. The more light you have the lower the ISO should be so the picture will be clear. If you have less light like from being indoors, you would use the highest ISO but it would make the picture grainy or loud. If the ISO is shifted, the exposure triangle will either shift left making it underexposed or right making it overexposed. To fix it, you would have to adjust the aperture or shutter speed until it’s balanced out.