DSLR Photography Made Easy: Guide to mastering your Camera

1. About this Class: Welcome to the class, how to get the most as we all do so well in this class, I'll be teaching you how to take amazing pictures with your DSLR camera. And we're going to be wanting everything you need to know about how to hold on to take pictures and how to use your DSLR. And of course, how to take amazing shots with it. So join me for this class to learn more about how to use a DSLR camera, which one should you beginning? And everything else you need to know about the art of taking pictures with your DSLR camera. My name is Maeve and I have been teaching thousands of students how to learn online in many different ways. And specifically, I have been doing photography ever since I was a kid. In this class, I'm gonna be teaching you how you can get started with photography. 2. Projectnew: So you're ready for your Skillshare project. For the Skillshare project, all you have to do is just posting everything that is available in your camera bag. So here we have the snack, we have the macro photography, the actual camera, sunglasses, lens cap, and the tripod, the miniature want anyways, and some food for me to enjoy. So go ahead and post what you are going to have in your bag. And then the most important thing is how you organize it. So let's go ahead and organize it co-active. Everything has to be spaced apart from each other in a way that it all makes sense when we take a picture and of course have some kind of a background to this. As you can see, this is all black background making the picture very interesting and yet it makes a lot of sense. So go ahead and post yours for the skill. So project of this class. 3. Class Project: Your class project is very simple. Get your camera out and start taking pictures. But specifically, I want to see one of your pictures that you took. And I'm gonna give you an assignment. The assignment for you is simply to take a very simple picture, but it's gonna be a specific victory. You're going to go outside and take a picture of nature. It doesn't matter what kind of nature it is. Just a picture of outside. It could be a picture of just a sunset. It could be just an autistic picture. It could be any kind of picture, the forest or anything that you find that has something to do with nature and posted out in the project section of this class. So other students can see and we can all shell and check it out. Hopefully, you'll make an awesome picture. Go ahead and post it over there. Let other people know how great your picture skills are. 4. Getting 1st DSLR: When you just get started with DSLR photography, the biggest question is what kind of disallow that you should get? This is one of my mistakes that they did when they just got into this business. Well, initially I was gonna do modal photography, but then I went and decide to branch out into events photography, which is the most profitable one, specifically wedding photography. So for wedding photography, you need one of the best cameras that you can actually use. And this one, the full frame, was the one that I got. Now, once suggested for you. If you're getting into this business, usually pick the best camera for whatever it needs that you need it for. If you're doing video recording, you don't need a big sophisticated DSLR. You would actually need something like the M camera, which is much smaller, more mobile, and does a lot of videos for you, which is very capable camera. Now, another thing that I did love to do in my free time is doing photography of animals. And a lot of times they'll fall away. So you need a super zoom for that. So often you need big 0 and big lenses for that kind of stuff. So definitely having a body that works for that is good for. The bigger question is, and it comes down to Preferences. And what kind of camera do you need for whatever you're gonna be doing? And here's my take on this. You still get the camera that works best for you. It doesn't need to be the most expensive. It doesn't need to be the best one. You just need to be the best camera that's going to work just for you, for your needs on it. So after $500 camera is gonna be more than enough for getting started. As you get better at what you're doing, you can think about what kind of lenses you want to expand it to. What kind of equipment do you need and so on. Just to not fall into the equipment trap, which a lot of newbies and people just getting started with this do including myself that I got into. So that's not essential, It's not important. The most important thing is having a DSLR camera that you can practice with and do intake a lot of pictures. It is much more important and more essential than just getting the latest and the best equipment. Now, one more thing, it's often best to invest in the lenses then in the camera bodies. Because over time, the chemical bodies, over time, they're always change and again, better and better. But the lens is almost always stay the same in the prices are almost very similar. For us. If you get a professional lenses, the price for them almost never change it. So you can always going to sell them and get almost almost everything that you paid for that specific questions. That same can be said for not such professional lenses, they often fall down. And sometimes cameras brands if they come up with some new style like mini model. So the M camera, well, the price of this one exponentially from now. So keep this in mind that the greatest and the best, it has not been tested. And over time, it might actually fall down in terms of bytes. So for investment purposes, you're investing in yourself. That is false. Second, you're investing in the lenses. And lastly you investing in the camera body. After you've figured out which one suits your needs, go ahead and buy it. When it comes to brands, it's all about whichever brand is best for you. You might have to go to Best Buy and check out a few blends and see which one is easy to use. The one I like to use. And the one that best for me is the Canon brand. It has been something I have just got started with. And keep this in mind. Once you pick a blend, you have to stick with it. Because if you buy the equipment and everything else to change it from one brand to another is gonna be fairly inexpensive. 5. Camera Setup: This is a DSLR camera. You purchase when you get a few interesting features here that are exclusive to disavow. One of which is the view screen. With the view screen, all by itself. You can go ahead and view things right on the actual screen. This makes it much more easy for you to take pictures in wide variety of situations when you move this up and down or sideways. The great thing about DSLR, those two ways for you to view so forced is the actual view screen over here. And second is the viewfinder. If the sun prevents you from using this green, you can always use the viewfinder to take pictures. You also have a different kind of menu system over here. And the new ones have a touchscreen plus and minus that you can use as well to make the picture overexposed or underexposed. A few other interesting features. For the DSLR. We have the strap here that you can put on yourself to make sure this thing doesn't fall down. They also have two kinds of biases. The built-in flash on the top and the external files that you can buy and put right here. Now, with the lens, you can attach different lenses into the camera. And there was a lot of controls that comes with it. The Ireland's have flee different controls. Woese's to the force one, you set your own control to go ahead and do whatever you like. And this is programmed inside the camera. The second one is either shooting in autofocus or manual focus. If you set this to manual focus, you can move this link over here and focus. And this is really good with a zoom lens. Always keep this on autofocus unless you're using very special kind of photography and you need to focus manually. It also has a zoom in or zoom out wing over here. That is the last one that we have featured for you. And some lines have image stabilizer switch which either is on or off recommended, usually to be on the move your lens or you have to actually do is to press this button over here, hold it from the bottom to move it until you heal a quick and you take it out now to align it and to put it back in. The red thing has to go hand will do add one, both of them have to touch each other. And then you're going to be slowly moving this until you hear a click. Now, it is ready for you to take pictures. The front of the lens features, events protective cover right here on the ends doesn't get scratched when you're using it. Next is the lens filter I've put in. This is an additional thing that helps in case you're doing specialized kind of photography. And you sometimes need a UV screen, which is this one right here that doesn't wet uv, get into the ones and make your pictures not as good. Or of course you can switch this to a different kind of filters, which is really cool about photography. We also have white here. A lens hood protects pictures. The next features of the camera or the manual controls here. And specifically, you can go ahead and switch the control down to whatever kind of things you want the camera to actually do, including the auto manual, video and everything else that is included here, lots of different scenes. And if you have a sophisticated camera, it gives you many of them. Do you have an on and off switch over here as well? This is four plus and minus. It is different function in different cameras. Also have a manual focus or provide over here. And the snapping place for you. This is how you go ahead and take a picture. Now, one thing that most amateurs don't actually know is to take a picture. You actually have to hold this halfway, that all the way in. Halfway you hear this sound beep. It means it is focused and then you pass all the way. In, snap the image. On the backside, we have a lot of controls that are all features with the camera when you're gonna be using it. We have the picture style and all kinds of things in here, wake query to fill those. How to change the size of the picture. And we have a few other interesting features right here. We have the final switches will file always on, sometimes on and off. So automatically file is one thing that you can do. You can also just file it and you can also just turn off the flash. They also have what kind of shooting you want to actually do, which a single shooting, supervise city shooting, hi velocity, continuous, low speed, intermediate, and timing mode. Usually I keep it at a single shooting. And as I do macro photography, then you want to have something like continuous shooting depending on what kind of situation you have it in pairs will have another feature, which is basically to do with image. You pass on here to View and you think that you already took place on Recycle Bin, move it to erase and set it off. And you always the images just like that. Every single image that you don't like, you just keeps going forward. Over here. We also have autofocus on and off that you can pass on. And we also have this thing that I can joystick like miniature over here in the menu system that goes directly into the actual camera. And you can go ahead and change a lot of very interesting and some of them are advanced features. To go into the advanced features, you want to move this all the way to manual setting. And then what you're gonna be doing is placing on the menu. And it's going to give you a lot more features for you to go through and change them. 6. DSLR Buying Guide: So if you ask me what is the best place for you to go ahead and start buying a DSLR camera. I would say, hand in to Amazon. Over here, you can get really good DSLR camera at a very cheap price. It is no longer that you have to pay thousands of dollars to get a great deal. And a camera, you can get one extremely cheap and still get a good year. So e.g. this one over here going for only $400. And the only thing you would need is a lens. But interesting enough, it comes with a kit lens, which is still very good. For $400. You can get started with photography. It used to be you had to have at least 2000 bucks to get a DSLR camera. And now you don't. Of course, those things that you can get that is even cheaper will get the price of this one. This is we used and it is hundred dollar the box. When it comes to different blends and kinds, of course, the more you pay, the better the camera you actually get. But you can get started at a very cheap camera. We don't need the most expensive and the best one, not yet anyway, when you're just getting started and starting out, getting a very cheap one is really good. You can explore it, you can test drive it. You can take pictures. You can learn more about the camera settings and how to use it with a very cheap wise. Now, it doesn't matter what kind of brand that you get started with. Nikon has very good cameras to you can also get other companies as well, including Sony. It is really up to you which kind of camera that you are going to be getting. Eventually it comes down to choices. Which platform, which ecosystem you like the most, which one is the most user-friendly? And which one gives you the best possible price? I myself love Canon. It is easy for me to use. Now I get the most. There was also another brand called Pentax, and they make pretty good cameras as well. So one of the most expensive mistakes you can actually do when you're shopping for, when your camera is to go ahead and buy from a legitimate source and get totally ripped off. So let's go ahead and show you what not to do and then how to correctly get the best deal. So first of all, you can get a direct deal directive form actually Canon, Sony, or Nikon, those sites also sell the same exact equipment. Now you can save a lot more money by buying the same exact deal but used. But keep this in mind that sometimes you'll get really good deal. But it's not. But if you're shopping for blend new, expensive cameras and lenses, you have to be extremely careful. False thing. You wanna do. Take a look at what kind of deals are offered right now, what sides give you the best deals and so on. My favorite is B&H Photo, Amazon, which is really great with any products that you buy over there and Best Buy. Now sometimes you have sites that are going to pop up here that are not legitimate. I'm going to show you one of them. And yet it has very good price. So this one over here, abs of mean, the price for it is way better than the price for Canon. So you might think, hey, that's a good thing, and it has a 14 day lead tones for most items. It looks like a very good deal. But is it, you see, it's 300 bucks cheaper than in any other location. Now, the problem with some of those sites is to have something known as switch and bait. And I think this site is one of the most famous ones out there. So what happens is you buy something, call you up and they don't give you something that you're working for or they cancel your order and they play games with you. Even worse, sometimes they send you a not one that's made for USA market. Those are gray market lenses. They don't have United States foreign tea. So how can you make sure you're getting a very good deal? It is simple. You go to something known as bbb.org and you type in the name of the business and they just did abs, cannula and electronics. As you can see here. This one has been kicked out of the BBB because the company kept on doing unauthorized violations. You can see though it's 51 complaints in the last we use our closed and nine complaints in the last 12 months and take a look at this 44 years in the business with an F weighting, that is just terrible. So if you go ahead and want to see some of the reviews, you just press on it. And you eat the company reviews and see what other people thought of this business. And more than likely same thing can happen to you as well. So one style and bait and switch, another one style, and so on. A lot of people really dislike this solvus, bad reviews from a company. You don't want to see something like that. On the other hand, happened in good company. This is the beach training company. Now, this one has more decently views. And I bought from this business for a while and it is very good. There was also another company that's called by the age. So this is a widget amid location for you to go ahead and buy all kinds of equipment in. And you can see over here, they have a very nice site. They have been trusted in business since. They've been around for quite some time. And you can definitely buy from them and get pretty good deals. Those also different sites, such as one of my favorite, which is Amazon. And you can get all kinds of great deals on Amazon over here. There is also something known as b and h, especially if you're looking for brand new products, BestBuy. And lastly, something that everybody knows, which is eBay. So you type in whatever you want to get. You look for the product, you press on it. You take a look at the cell. Now, I don't really suggest for you to get somebody like this, because this specific Paulson only has, if you've used it only has 97 ports and positive. You want to have somebody with a lot of reviews. And what you have to do is to find which is a good seller that sells those products. One of the best ones is tabulated plus another one is a Nikon or Canon authorized reseller. If you want to get the best possible deals, look for those keywords in the actual listing. And that's what makes sure they sold a bunch of products on eBay. 7. Save Money on Gear: Dslr photography could be an expensive hobby, but it doesn't have to be there. There's a few ways that you can totally save money on it. So first of all, we're gonna be talking about the first way to save money is not to break your equipment in the first place. So having a very good bag that you can put your camera and put tax, it is essential for you. The next thing you want to do, and it's another way to save money, is to go ahead and store the lens correctly in here. One thing is about the strap. You see this lab. It has to go inside of the bag net outside. So when you left the bag up, it doesn't accidentally full oval or trip you. Also, depending on the actual bag, should be freely this, as you can see over here, this one has a lot of padding to protect it from any impact, so you don't accidentally break your camera. Another way for you to save is not to purchase the most expensive kind of lens, but to save money and getting taught party lenses instead. So instead of getting everything Canon brand and one thing about Canada blend it works. Everything is made to work perfectly, but you can get total quality brand and save about a third of the money. With some lenses, sometimes the whens is 0, pretty decent. When it comes to lenses, there was not too many that are made to quality for Canon. So keep this in mind. The next way for you to save cash is not to make the camera or go bad over time. The best way for you to do so is to always remove the battery. When you're not using the camera, you see the battery is gone here. Why is the guy? If I go ahead and I'm gonna be putting this in storage for over a few months. Last thing I want is to put a battery to still be in here and it might accidentally leak inside of this compartment. That's going to cause thousands of dogs and probably learned the camera useless. Can happen. I haven't seen it happen. It doesn't mean it can't. So don't actually do that. Next thing is the camera photo. Now, although the filter is excellent to preventing your camera from breaking. And the lenses itself, it is a great protector for it, which is going to save you a lot of money, e.g. if this cost over 1,000 bucks or over 500, I suggest getting some kind of events filter. The filter itself will prevent this actually done through it gets hit. Yes, the glass will break, but the actual camera lens is going to be totally fine. Nothing that's going to save you money is how you screw the field. So now the biggest mistake people make is they go ahead and it keeps going this, and they keep doing it just like that. And then tighten this up as much as they can know. That's a big, big no-no. You want to tighten it? Oh, it'll be just a little bit. And then you want to see that it goes back in. Why Just a little last thing you want is this thing, the filter to get stuck on here forever. E.g. if it does break, how are you going to remove it? And I have seen this can twist amount of times. I sell stuff on eBay. I seen people who get stuck over here and he can't get it out, which actually tremendously loads the value of your investment as well. Now, another thing I suggest for you to do is when you're buying a filter. This is also important. You want to go for the high-quality photos, especially when it comes to expensive lenses. They're high-quality photos are actually going to walk. Don't actually get them. And you all bought locations, e.g. Amazon is good with counterfeits and so on. So if anything doesn't feel right, return it back to the store, but you want to make sure it is a brand name when you're getting the photos, don't try to save some money and getting some third party photos. They might not actually do nothing to give you what you want to fill it. Those are really for one good purpose. It is to make the pictures so much better. Like UV filters have actually to walk if you're getting some third party fill dosages like putting lego glass on top of the filter, on top of the lenses, and that's not what you want to actually do. Now, one thing you can get, which is really cool, is an interesting chart. But now if you're looking for one tribe, but that does everything. It's called a GUI or tripod. So the goal of a tripod over here, you can see it right there. What's great about this is huge flexibility for it. It can hanging from trees and the best of all, you can move those legs around. You can go ahead and do all kinds of weird acrobatic stuff of it. But the best thing about this is that it can go, it can go higher, and it can do a lot of stuff. And the gorilla tripod is one of the most interesting ones that is allowed. And I highly recommend it for you to actually use because you can use a wide variety of situations and the legs don't go bad over time. Ito, It's super storm. Now, those other things that you can get for the camera, e.g. if you're getting into all EF lenses OF whens is overly expensive and you're getting the cameras. Now, you can save more money by using this, which is the mount adaptive. Using a mount adaptive, what you're gonna be doing, you can reuse this you already have, or you can use the lego lenses that most people don't want them anymore or they want to get the latest ones, this instead. So using the filter you can get the same lenses much cheaper. And you're going to be saving thousands of dollars by using an actual lens photo. 8. Picking DSLR Lens: Different kinds of equipment and why you actually need this. So we have here different lenses and they all do different purposes. So this one over here is the super zoom lens. You need one of those to take pictures of things very far away. This one starts at 55 millimeter and goes all the way to handle it. Some of them go to 400, 600, and they're very expensive. This specific one is not too expensive because this is the M camera system, which is the middle is, but it's an Aldo system so it doesn't cause as much money. It's very good idea to get stuff that is not everybody wants it now the hardest thing on the market. And yet the prices fell down exponentially. So you can get a very good deal on the equipment. So that's one of the essential gills and you can see how it really extends. This is why Canon stands for Canon when you're gonna be taking pictures. So when it goes all the way to 200, it takes pictures of something very close up and make sure you remove the lens cap when you're gonna be doing it. And when it goes to 55, it takes pictures that's very close by. So now the question is, why do we have so many different lenses in why I'm not using a reference photo on this ones. Primarily because this lens is very cheap. So when you have cheap lens, it's not really worth your money. To protect the 1s is much for insurance purposes when inexpensive ones you should actually do it. So the next ones we have here is this one. It's 11 to 22. And this one is a wide-angle. You might say it's a super wide angle because it goes all the way to 11 millimeter. This specific lens. For it to work, you have to push this button right here. So when you press this button, it actually opens it up and causes it. If you don't press this button, it doesn't move, it stays locked in place. Now, the holy grail for you is to get a bunch of different lenses. You want to have. The Zoom ones. You want to have a super wide angle lens. And you want to have a prime lens as well and a Lego and X2. So this one right here is, do I go one, it goes from 18, 55, 55 being the Nifty 50, the lens you have 21 for most portrait photography. And that's very essential for you to have something like this. So this one is for most things that I'm gonna be doing when it comes to portraits and taking pictures of people. When they want to do wide-angle photography. And I want to do Zoom ones with sports and action. I use they can 55 to 200. When it's objects, things in the background that big, really big like buildings. You're going to use a wide-angle lens over here. When it comes to prime lens photography, which is it has no Zoom. This one is a macro lens. It's only 28 millimeter. It's fixed in the lens itself, which actually means this is great for maybe sometimes portraits. This specific one is a macro lens. So not only it's a prime lens, it also doubles as a macro as well. A lot of doubles as macro. In fact, this one also has a white built-in in here that when you turn it on, the white actually turns on itself. So to take the ends out, what you have to do is to push this button over here, move it until you hear that sound. You're gonna be putting their protection case right on the top of this. Next, we're going to be putting this one in here. And it has to align. The white one right here has gone into the white, some of them wet to add. Just like this. Move it then you turn this on. And then you can move this right here. It comes out. Then you want to turn the lights on. This one doesn't have enough battery power to turn it on. So we have to charge this specific one, but it shows you how it actually looks like when you extend it in and out and move the lens lock is he doesn't move a file, the ones in here, but you can totally tell how it definitely changes everything in here and the file system in the mills. You just press it and it comes out, pops in and out right here. Now another thing about lenses is you've got to protect their lenses. So have some kind of a case to put them in into close them. Is essential to prevent any damage to them. Another case is a soft or an Xbox such as this one over here. Going to be putting an opening them up, putting it inside. This doesn't give you as much protection because it is soft. Sometimes those things come with the ones that you buy. But it prevents dust, prevents some water from falling in here. It gives you It's better than no protection from outside scratches. I would rather have the cases if I have a choice. But sometimes you have no choice and by those something than nothing. The best reason for this. Interesting enough, is for this lot of times, you lose those landscapes because you're going to go ahead take pictures and everything and you forget about them. The best thing to do is just afford them right in here. And that's it for now and forget and you can start going ahead and taking pictures and doing whatever you need to do. Cool accessories that might be needed. One of which is a lens hood that you can put on some of those lenses by the lens hood, you're preventing the lens from getting scratch, especially when you don't have a photo lens hood, is essential for you to actually use. And also it's good for sun. Go out as well. That'll good thing to have is a beanie back. The beanie bag could be used as an alternative to a tripod, especially in glassy or wet or even though the surfaces. So you put this like let's say on a vehicle because it gives you a place that you can go ahead and put this in. You can take pictures and it makes it pretty steady. But yet you're not touching the ground and you're not getting it DoD. That'll good accessory that they do recommend for you to get is some kind of a pelican case such as this right here. This case is great because you can have all the different things that you have here for the memory card and storage. Now, one company I do recommend for you to get is extreme. Sandisk. This is one of the best ones for you to use. Now one thing I like to do is to flip them around like this. You might say, well, why do I flip them up? Because after I'm done and the code is all for, I wanted to know it is four. So the four ones could be flipped out. And the ones that are empty or not flipped. This way I know which one is which. And another thing you can do is called the SD miniature cards. Those are very small as decodes, and they'll like this small, they come up and then we'll click this. You can buy those though, sometimes much cheaper. And you need a small thing like this, which is an adapter that you can use. And you can go ahead and we use those things. So the adapter is for the micro SD card, though the smallest of the cards. But they'll great. Because not only they save a lot of space, they also usable as well. I find them just as good as those cards over here, which are the bigger size. And of course, having a good case is essential for you to protect your Gail and specifically the memory card. This is the most important thing you have in photography is the actual pictures. So why don't you just spend good money to protect them and those things don't even cause that much money to begin with. Now, lastly, sometimes you get dust in the landscape. And that way you do not ever blow into this. But the place you usually get is the way that we see the specks of dust over here. What you have is something that looks like this, which we're gonna be doing is simply just blowing the dust out. Now, don't do it like this because it tries to maybe stick them in. You don't want it to stick into the ones you wanted to get out of the ones itself. So having something like this in cleaning it up, this is the best way to clean it from specks of dust and size of stuff around without having, having to touch this. And I'll try not to touch the lens becomes you can accidentally scratch it. 9. Camera Vs Smartphone: Dslr camera or a smartphone? Which one should you beginning MY in this class we are calling DSLR. But for some people, there might still be thinking a cannula is superior when you have one on hand, which is this, the smartphone, the power of their smartphone, you cannot do everything that a camel. And actually just so we can do when you want to look professional, do you really take out a phone? Now, a second thing about this is that it's easy for you to do camera shake. And it's much harder for you to put this steady and get the picture down. Those tripods for cameras, but they're not as effective and they're not as good. The primary problem with this is if you want a super zoom in to take a picture, you're using fixated, you're using digital zoom, something that a phone is awesome with that. Unfortunately, it's not coming out as good. You need a DSLR to do heavy-duty, really good photography. And because of it, I recommend for you to get something like this, which is an actual DSLR. Yes, it costs a lot more and that's the kind of it. It is much bigger as well. But nowadays with the mirrorless cameras, little bit size small. You can get small lenses and you can take pretty good pictures. Now, when it comes to investing in a DSLR camera and the body, remember this? The actual lens is where the money is at. The bodies always change and at what time to come up with better and better. But the lens is usually stays the same and the technology of the lenses stays this way for a very long time. In fact, some of those Canon lenses have been out there for over 20 years and you can get them backwards compatible with even the newer models, depending on which ones. Now, that being said, This is really good for stuff. You can take really good pictures with it. You can do super tele Zoom to take pictures of things that are very far away. And you're using actual manual zoom over here. Then you're taking it with the optical, optical zoom, which is we'll zoom. So nothing is fixated or digital. You can now get super wide angle lenses to make amazing pictures. Something that a small camera phone can actually do this super wide angle. It's much better doing that than some DSLRs. Comparable, you have to get a lens that is thousands of dollars to get the same results. That's something that a cannula phone is actually decent net. But that being said, everything that this can do, can do it so much better. And DSLR is worth your money and investment. So in this class, you're gonna be checking it out. You're gonna be learning about how to use a DSLR and get the best out of it. 10. What is ISO: The ISO thing over here is complex for people who don't know about. And I want to go into which I so should you be using? And back in the film days, you have to pay money for you to pick the ISO u1. Actually use. The more faster the speed, the more expensive it was. Now it is no longer the case. The easiest way for you to figure out the ISO is to experiment e.g. something like 2506 is a lot. It gives you huge exposure and yet the picture comes totally gleaning. Let's take a picture and find out. So we took a picture over here. As we zoom in. Move 24, 2,500 ISO, you can see how grainy their picture actually is. And that's something for you to keep in mind. The higher the ISO, the more grainy picture comes out. And you don't want that to happen. It's some cases you have to do this. If something is super fast action moving very fast, the fastest, ISO will freeze the action. Something that is slow and not moving like this. If you're a newbie, you can always do auto ISO. But to have the best possible picture come out, something like 100, it's going to give it the best possible picture that you can do. The most grains and the biggest and the best logos as well. So as we took a picture of this, this one comes out much better. There was no grain at all. It freezes the action. Very good. That's what you actually want. But there is a downside to using a fast speed and a slow speed as well. So you might think that that's always use super slow because the picture comes out very good. That is not the case. If something is in motion, you will have to up the ISO. So you stop the action. To stop the action, you want to use on 200, 400, 800, and so on. But the faster you go, the more green you get. A reasonable amount would be 801,630. 200 will be showing, even with really good cameras such as this one over here. You still get some bit of grain to it. But you can see with the post-processing and the gamma, it is almost a noticeable at 3,200. But the faster you go, the more likely you will get more noise. So this is something for you to experiment with, but if you want to get the best and the witches Carlos, and to make the picture look really good, you want to get and use as little as possible. When it comes to ISO speed, especially if the product is stationary. You get very good images. Super high-quality, and beautiful grain as well. 11. What is Aperture: Aperture priority mode has to do with the av over here, as you can see that it is sharp or blowing. You, Molly said, and you move your aperture the most sharp or boy, the picture actually gets. And you can set it up to what you need to move this around. And F4 is going to get it more broadly over here. The more you move it to F22, the more or less blurry it gets an a venture, you get the whole entire picture. So if you're gonna be using the app 22, by zooming in, you can see that everything in the picture looks really good and nothing is brought out. But if you're gonna be using something like F4, like over here, as you zoom in, you can see it's out of focus and that's done to make the effect. And everything in the middle is really in focus. And that's actually the whole part of the actual effect of the f-stop. But in some images, It's not as obvious as others. That is the key for you to understand is that when you take a picture, some of it is just not gonna be seen as easily and it depends on how much you zoom in and zoom out. So if the picture is very zoomed in or zoomed out, the effect is not as seen. So you have to actually be around 7,205 millimeter to have the best effect of the sides being more blurred out using the app stop over here. So it's not as obvious with this picture. So some pictures, the effect is not as obvious, but as it is. In this one, the depth perception, you can actually tell how it actually looks like. So this is all about being autistic and experimented with different pictures and trying to figure out which one is going to work best. If we switch to the AV mode, it's going to be blowing depending on where it is. So the sides are gonna be all borrowing, but the middle is going to be working fine. So if depth perception in something like this, you want to have this sides or boy, but you want to have everything in the middle to work totally fine. Utilizing this concept, you can see that the whole total of heel is in focus. So I took a picture of its head as a primary subject, and the rest of it is also in focus as well. Now, by doing the F22, That's how it looks like when I did the F4. On the other hand and a focus just on his head. He could see his head is still in focus, but the rest of the body is thought to be blurry. So that's part of their fact that it took so much better. If you focus on your subject in the middle and everything else gets poorly. And it makes the picture looks so much more artistic and much more better. Yeah, this looks a little boring as you can see. The picture is good, but the other one with, therefore looks a little bit more better because you see everything is bowed out except his head. And this is the autistic way to take a picture. 12. Different Camera Modes: So all the camera modes can be super confusing. And I want to get into and show you every single one of those, what they do. And of course, which one should you be using when you're gonna be using your camera? With the manual mode, you can set everything all by itself that you need to. The point of the manual is to be able to control every single aspect of the camera. Everything you do here, including the aperture, including the seconds you're gonna be taking, the pictures. And the ISO as well. This is for exports. And I don't suggest you to do. And as you look good, what you're doing. The AV mode is aperture priority mode. And you see the boy will also show up over here. What it actually does is, as you said this, you press on the aperture. You set the background to be more or less the aperture 22, it's wide-open. Everything is in focus. Whereas if you want a ball, the background, you go all the way to have for when it comes to the shutter priority mode, which is a00, you set your shutter speed. And you can see an example of frozen and flowing. By the subtle speed. Everything else is gonna be set for you automatically with the camera. And this one has a lot of experimentation to do with it. So if you set it for 15 of a second, waltzes, fourth of a second and 60th of a second. In fact, pilot of a second and so on. The picture is going to come out really dark, ovulate depending on the situation. This is super-advanced and this one is not my favorite, but it does give you the most awesome, interesting effects. One of my favorite is the problem a0b0 mode. This one you can send everything. But specifically you're selling two different things. So I'll speed and aperture. That is set for you automatically. You said everything else for yourself. One thing you said is how bright and dark everything else. You're also setting the ISO to be as much as you like. And that's about it. Everything else is set for itself. So this is easy for newbies and people who just new to the camera and trying to work with that. The bulb mode, continuous exposure, white pressing the shutter button. You can come up with steely eyes like this. Wow, look at the night scene on that one. Really amazing. Or you can come up with fireworks as well. You can also do things that time whip, photography and so on. We have to do is to press the shutter button and let it go. And then you press on it once again and it stops there. See mode, which are the program modes though is the C1 and C2. On this one. What you're doing is kind of just programming are waiting for you in a way you're awake. Then when you go back, it gives you the programming. So it just reminds you what you want with the setting that you like and so on. So over here, what you can do here is just set whatever you want to be set at. And you're going to be fixing everything up. As you are. You can see that this one also lets you plus one here. And it's going to this focus on the product that we are doing for. So let's go ahead and do their speed v1, this is going to be auto because one of w and so on. So you need to run your camera has different functions and things in here. Next thing is the movie Vocoder mode, self-explanatory. Pretty much shoot. Whatever you want to shoot in here is personal movie and it will record for you. And we also have greater filters in some cameras where you can just set very impressive and interesting photo. You choose the photo. One of the best ones out though is the black and white filter. The fisheye is awesome as well. And it makes the image look really cool. As you can see here. This is putting interesting looking one when you're gonna be doing it. And the next one is the scene. So what you're gonna be doing here is just set the scenario you want to actually do here. And you just find the senior white. So it does all the processing for you. And this is pretty much just finding the kind of thing you want to shoot with. And you can constantly just shoot with that specific scene and so on. 13. Shutter Speed Function: Shutter priority mode. This one is to freeze the action and to make it look so much better, it has to do with the timing. And the timer is right here. When you're freezing the action, you get the picture. It'll to be really showing up as you can see over here. Or it gets overexposed, such as here. It gets underexposed as well. When you're freezing action, you don't want to do this at a point where the Camelot, how did he has any time to take the picture and to process anything? And with this one, you have to figure out which one is the best forward. In this camera. It already does all the processing. And you can see right away in the picture how it's gonna work quick. If you use it, for how many seconds? They won't go, you're exposing to it. The more likely the picture is going to get overblown, like blown highlights such as this. So a lot of times you have to experiment with exactly how much you want it to be opened at. If the object is moving, such as waterfalls or other stuff like that. You want to make sure that it is open for very few seconds, but not too much. So a 15th of a second or 60 over second, and so on. If the object is not moving a lot, it is stationary. You can give it a little bit more time such as styles or a night scene. This one where you can give a lot more time to it, especially if it's already dark, as is e.g. if this was much adult coal, you could keep this moving and keep it open for much longer. And it will still give you good results. 14. Working with Lights: Working with whites, this is essential when you're working with whites, is where you point the right ad if you're gonna be using it right from the font you can see this is super harsh white. This is direct light. You don't want to use a directory like this when you take pictures of photography, you want to have a diffuser. So over here we have this W have a diffuser that we can put on and use for the picture. So this is more the rights you will have in a photography situation, something with a refusal. And as you can see, there was saved and different ways to write up the subject. If you do it from the side, the shadows are showing and you're only writing one side of the face. So let's go ahead and zoom in and you can see it all winds up just one side of the face more than another. That's not the correct way to do this. When I have something that looks much better. Now over here we are doing the same exact mistake, but from the other side, ideally, you will have two different set of rights from both sides pointing, edit, but a lot of times you can't, and this one, you can see that this is good interesting effect. But if you're doing it to a person you want to have in the font. This gives us the best possible view, the best effect, and the more natural looking picture the most you can actually do from the top, it is not as good. They also have the shades showing up as well. The effect is not as good to just find a balance in a way that it makes it look really good. And the one I found the best and the most photographers will say the same thing is directly pointing from the font. Light at the subject. It's gonna give you the best possible effect and make it look the most professional and most useful when it comes to whitening. Whatever you're taking a picture of. 15. Picking Camera backpack: Picking a chemical backpack, what is essential, what is important, and which camera backpack you should choose those so many out there. But specifically, what features are you working for? Posting? When I worked for camera backpack, I want to have a location where it can put and secure a tripod on. So definitely this is an essential part of your camera gear. Can you fit a tripod on here? If yes, this is it. Does it fit inside compartment? That is also really important. Second thing that I'm looking for is something that stays flat on the ground such as Davis, you see a flat surface, you put your camera down. It's not for the oblique. Another thing is the padding. It has to have secure padding in here. So when something hits it, it's not going to damage all the essentials that is inside here. Thing is, when you open this up, there has to be an organization system that is made over here. You can see you, I doubt we have Essentials that is very important when you're doing a wedding photography or an event photography. We have here a battery charger or something that wants and forgot on a wedding photography which you should never do. I have over here I spelled badly as well, included. And there was many different organization compartments of the CO2. You can put your snack, you can put extra gills. Anything else that you need. Right at the top here. On the side. You can put our app tap in case you need to know something else that is easily accessible over here. This is for safe care and other things that you can put that is easily found and you can get them right out, such as different lenses, lens hoods. And if you have one of those, you want to put themselves well, easy access Floyd in here in case you actually need to. Another thing about this, you want to have easy for you to carry in two different ways. One with one hand to just put this in and be able to put this on your back, such as a swing bag or you have both of them easily just put in and start walking will that in case you need to. So when you have a luteal idle gear, you want to be able to comfortable, put this on and be able to take it off easily as well. So the slabs here should be something that can, you can change how much this slab is n. So this one is very good. You can interchange the strap if it gets too tight. You can loosen it up and so on. But not every camera bag has been the best part of this. It should be able to have a compartments such as this, the slingshot compartment. The good thing about this is take this and you're ready to go. We can get big camera with huge lens in here. So this is a big camera with a decent size, lands over here and it goes right inside here. There's a lot of bedding and you see how big the camera is. Plus. Now the thing about this, you can see extra compartment. So at the top, you can put your family gear over here. Well, you need to put other axes as it will, cations as well here and put your memory cards. You can put everything you need for your photo assignments. This is something that we want to keep in mind and also have fast axis right at the top for things that you need as well. So we have a past exit location right at the top here. We can get things right out of nothing. Make sure it is. For poor. When it comes to people tried to steal your stuff in the back. So this one has a double the way folio protected because when you slap this in, you can just easily access this whole entire compartment. It is all closed up. So this is all closed up now. So it doesn't accidentally open up. And then I'll put a lock on this. It causes all the back from people, especially when you're gonna be walking like this and you'll take your picture. So what I actually do when I was doing wedding photography, I would do exactly that. I would go around. I'll have my backpack where I have all my deal, and I would take pictures. And then of course you always have the backpack on you. You're walking around, you take pictures, you do what you need, and then you have all the essentials that you need for your assignment on you at all times, just walking around, taking pictures and do your job. So this is very essential to have a really good backpack, easy for you to use and easy for you to put away in case you need to. So when you're done and you need to swap friends, or you just need to put this right back. Easily. Open this up. Stick the camera in. Now. Going to eat some dinner in case you need to, and you're still doing your assignment. And now they're ready to get some food. 16. Exposure Triangle : The exposure triangle simulator. This one is going to let you take shutter speed, aperture, and ISO to create the perfect picture. When you're gonna be using manual x Basel to do this, what you have to do is tweak this. And this will teach you exactly how to take amazing picture using the manual function of your camera. So index, puzzle, triangle. The most important thing is the combination between three different factors. It's pretty much the speed of the camera, the aperture capability of the lens, and the sensitivity of the ISO. The aperture is one that has a lot to do with how much quality you put into buying the best ones. And this one is really going to keep and make some of the best possible images for you. Now you saw is simply a tweak that you can easily do. And the shutter speed, you can set it to automatic unless you're using the manual function. So the first thing we're gonna be doing is checking this out and you can play along with this as well, going to the same website. So when it is super bright outside, it is much easier for you to take picture even with nuts such soap, aperture. So e.g. if you set the aperture at F22, you see the picture comes out good in the background. But because everything is moving super fast, such as the board's, you got to tweak this to the right amount so the boats don't come out blurry. This is while the shutter speed is essential. So the longer the shutter speed actually is, the more the background and everything is going to come out blurry. So to capture the best possible image, you have to set it to the white shadows speed, as you can see this when it's set to the right shutter speed, and the boards do come out in focus. Next thing is the aperture. The aperture itself is very important. It gives this beautiful background blow to the image. And yet, if you said this too low or too high, the image comes out either underexposed, overexposed, and so on. So over here, you can try to set this to the correct amount. In this case is F 16. And tweak the speed to the right one. Check the ISO sensitivity. Now, when the background actually changes, let's say there was a cloudy outside. This makes it much harder for you to take the picture because everything gets much darker. And therefore the aperture needs to be opened up much bigger for you to capture the picture. They assault might have to be a little bit higher. But you can see something very interesting. The higher the ISO on a cloudy day, the more you get pixels in the picture. So keep this in mind. You don't want the picture to become fixated, especially if it is super crowded, such as depth. In a super cloudy day. This becomes even more essential, including setting your aperture and you want to open it as wide as you can, because when it is super cloudy, this is something you need to do. Now, another thing you have to do is to open up the shutter speed away a bit different. And we can see that just a little bit. But because the boards are moving super fast, you can only open the shutter speed so much. Because if the shutter speed is too slow, the picture becomes, we blow it and nothing comes out. If it is too fast. It walks, you see it does capture the details, but sometimes it doesn't capture enough of them, as you can see in this picture, than enough, doesn't capture as much as you want. So pretty much the holy grail of photography is working with those three different variables, which is the shutter speed, aperture, and the ISO sensitivity. Go ahead and come to this website and put all the variables and try to figure out which one is great for you, especially when you're working with manual. 17. Flash Photography: Let's learn about DSLR cameras and specifically the onboard system that comes with them with this camera. If you're getting a DSLR, it's going to come with a flash. The more expensive ones do not have a flash included. Now, if it does come off the flash or you have to do is to raise it up in order for you to use it. It doesn't pop on by itself. That is the difference between a DSLR and then I go a camera. Second thing you have to understand is when it suits the lens hood might interfere and make the picture a bit darker. Anything below that area? Second of all, even if you have a very small lens, it's still when I walk as good. So to solve this issue, they came up with the hot shoe for the DSLR cameras, plus, it makes the flash much more powerful. So flash would look like this. Now, few things you have to know about the flash bow. You have to understand that it comes with batteries, but do not use disposable batteries, use rechargeable. Some of those does not work correctly with anything that is not rechargeable. And it comes with four of them and they go as certain way in Excel, you put them exactly right. Another thing you have to know is that if you're doing event photography, I recommend that you have a storage gates and you put them all in here. Not only put a few of them and we put a bunch of them in here, the cars. In a photo session, you would need a bunch of them. And you might be able to use many of them depending on how much the job requires. What I usually do is when we charge them, I put the face one way. When they use them when I was spent, the phase goes the other way around so I know which ones are used and which ones aren't enough. And a storage case is very handy as well. So after you go ahead and charge all of them overnight, or for a few hours, at least, make sure you close the compartment. Next thing you want to do is to put this right on here all the way until it gets all the way to the end. And then you have to work this out. And in the back there was something that you have flip of a switch. You keep going until you heal as zapping sound. Now it is based in here. Next thing you wanna do, turn on your camera and then turn on the flash. Now, an amateur thing here. One thing you want to do, and C is the pilot, white right heel has to turn on red. That means it is functional and it is walking. Some people when they put it in, if it's not totally charge, the first system is not going to fire up. So before you go ahead and go to a major event and you start shooting, you get everything ready. The biggest mistake is not to go ahead and test if the first system actually fires. Another thing you have to know is when you're shooting somebody, it is essential for you to use the fresh co-active. So as you're doing this like this, the way it goes straight into the face. And that's not a good thing. So to prevent this from happening, a lot of their flashes have a built-in, something like this, which is a diffuser that you can put in. So it diffuses the white. You can also buy a diffuser that you can put the right on the cap and close this up, then the right is not as house. So that's your eyes are source. And another one is just to use the flash buds, this button over here. And you can either move it to this side. So if you're facing it like this, you're actually moving into this to the side so it bounces off the ceiling and the white goes down. That's the way you diffuse it as well. You can also do it when you're awake this to move the white all the way up. So it also diffuses the light. It doesn't hit them how she interface as well too. And that's something for you to keep in mind when you're doing flash photography. 18. Best Tripod: A good tripod makes or breaks your photography. And if you want to take amazing pictures, you need something just like this. So why is this an awesome tripod forced off? The degree that you can move this around is essential. So when I go ahead and do this, I can move this fleet 60 easily and it doesn't make any sound. Next, it has to be able to go up and especially down. Now, those cannot actually go up a lot, but they can go down all the way that they need. The best thing out of this is the following. E.g. this one, when you go and you move it sideways, it lets me access the battery and the other compartment two. So we have weight here, the SD card, memory card. Then we have the battery that we can change. That's what makes it very good, is that I no longer actually need to remove the camera from here in order for me to take pictures. So what you need to do is to get something like this. And second of all, to step we weeks is essential. What is the two-step worries? Me, sorry. One is pretty much you're moving. One of them, even knowing a second one and you can release the camera. That's all you need to put it back in. It's one step in, just one. And it goes in to whack it up, make sure it's most secure. We see it's still very secure. There was another thing that you work it up, but it's actually just putting in it. So taking that and putting it in, if you're using the one-step pluses, you can see right here, one step to take out and one step to put in, in case you need to. 19. Conclusion: Thank you so much we're getting all the way to the end of this class. Hopefully you learned something new today. And if you did, make sure to help me out by leaving an awesome we view for this class what you thought of this class, why it was so great and post it up there. But you're joining has not ended. It has just started. Because what you're gonna be doing next, you're going to take your DSLR and start actually shooting and making pictures. Nothing is more fun than getting to know your camera and start taking pictures and getting better at doing photography. That being said, you have to know more about this gamma itself. And because of it, you might have to, we watch this class over again for a few pointers in case you forget and start to take notes. Hopefully, I'll see you in another one of my classes. I can't wait to get started teaching you how to do something else. When you see you in my next class.