February 2008

f-Stop, Shutter Speed, and all that jazz

Welcome back!Shutter Speed and f-stop settings work together in creating the exposure. The best analogy I’ve seen is to think of getting the desired exposure as a filling a bucket. It takes a certain amount of water to fill the bucket. You can pour water very quickly for a short time, or you can pour […]

Photographing Snow

It can be tricky trying to take a picture of a snow-covered landscape. All that bright white snow fools your camera into thinking there’s more light than there really is.
To Illustrate my point, here’s a picture I took this morning (as usual, click the thumbnail to view the full-size picture):

That looks kind of dark for […]

A Look At Your Aperture

One of the terms that you’re going to run into when dealing with cameras, both digital and film, is aperture. The American Heritage® Dictionary defines the word aperture as “1. An opening, such as a hole, gap, or slit.”
The aperture in a camera is the opening in the front that allows light through to […]