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Manual Photograph Essentials

Jonah Lasley
Eileen Hall
Innovation & Research Commons
How
Cameras
Work

Photo by Jean Francois


The Sensor
The
Photographic
Triangle
Aperture
Aperture
• Aperture is the opening that controls the amount of light let into the sensor.
• Measured in f-stops, written out as f/2, f/3.5, and f/16
• F-stops are written as fractions so the larger the number the smaller the aperture/opening
• Aperture affects depth of field. The larger the aperture opening, the shallower the depth of field.
The smaller the aperture opening, the deeper the depth of field.
Depth of Field
Shutter Speed
Shutter Speed
• Is the length of time that the shutter is open, exposing the sensor to light.
• Mostly measured in fractions of a second up to full seconds of measurements.
• Longer shutter speeds or "slow" shutter speeds increase the amount of light hitting the sensor.
• Slow shutter speeds also create motion blur.
• Short shutter speeds are good for action shots like sporting events.
• Anything below 1/90 should be braced on a tripod
Shutter Speed Cont...

Shutter Speed: 1/60 second Shutter Speed: 6 seconds


ISO

Photo courtesy of maincapture.com


ISO
• Controls the overall brightness of a photograph
• ISO is a hold over from film photography
• The higher the value the brighter the image will be
• If the value is set too high the image might be grainy
• Measured in increments of 100
Sensor Size

By Sensor_sizes_overlaid.svg: Moxfyrederivative work: Autopilot (talk) - Sensor_sizes_overlaid.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0,


Lens: Focal Length
Type/Use 35mm Nikon
Focal Focal
Length Length
Ultra Wide 20mm 13mm

Wide Angle 24mm 15mm

Landscape/ 35mm 22mm


Indoor Portrait
"Normal" 50mm 31mm

Portrait 85mm 56mm

Medium 120mm 80mm


Telephoto
Telephoto 200mm+ 135mm+

Photo by: Dave Black


White Balance

• Correcting what the camera "sees" as white


• Changes depending on the lighting
• Can be changed while shooting or in post
processing
Reading Photographic Data
Focal Length: 135 mm
Aperture: f/2.5
Shutter Speed: 1/4000 seconds
ISO: 160
Focal Length: 16 mm
Aperture: f/22
Shutter Speed: 30
seconds
ISO: 50
Focal Length: 35 mm
Aperture: f/1.6
Shutter Speed: 1/200 seconds
ISO: 500

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