Learn the Basics of DSLR Camera

1. Introduction: Have you gotten your DSLR but you don't know how to use that? Or are you eager to learn DSLR photography and jump into the field of photography and videography. If yes, then you are at the right place. Because in this learning session, you will be learning some basics about the DSLR and DSLR photography. You will be learning about the body basics. You will be learning how to turn on your camera, insert battery, insert SD card, and just start shooting. You will be getting the knowledge regarding different shooting modes, how to switch them. You will also get a slight hint about the exposure triangle. I will try to actually explain that. And by the end of this class, you will actually be able to use your DSLR normally. And by the continuous use of that, you will actually be a professional one day. So without any further ado, let's get started. 2. DSLR Body Guide and Taking a Picture: So first of all, we are going to be talking about the body of the DSLR or the composition of DSLR. So this is a DSLR camera right now you can see here it is. And this part of it called the lens. And the remaining part that I have in my hand right now is the body of the DSLR camera. So this is the body. This is a lens. And the one you are seeing on the back is also a lens. So how can we know about the function of this body and this lens? This lens actually X-like your eye and this body X-like your brain. For instance. This is the part of the lens from which light is allowed to enter. You can see the light enters into this part. From this part and image is being made into this area of the DSLR body. Now this area actually precedes that information, processes it and shows you at this point. Now you can also turn on the live view, so you will see everything on this LCD or live view screen. So this is how the mechanism of taking picture votes. Now first things first, this is a DSLR body. And here you can see this is the area where you can mount an additional microphone or flash required for your photography use. This is also a flashlight. Here are a few shooting modes out of which these poor or the moods that are used in the basic photography. In the end you have a radio button. And these are some modes which are used for the cameras custom, or you can say the cameras auto modes like the landscape, portrait, etc. Here is a button for flashlight. When you click on it, the flashlight pops up, and this is the button to turn on or off your camera. This dial is used to change different values. This LCD gives you live view when you click on this button. And here are some buttons for your menu. So this is just a basic about the everything that you have on your camera. On the left side, you can see here are some pores, and these pores differentiate according to your camera model. And on the bottom, this is the part where you actually have your battery inserted and your SD card. Now, you can get this battery out by just clicking it. And here you have your battery. When you have your battery in your hand, you can approach your charger. And here it is. This is the charter. You just place it in the violin and plug it into your battery, gets charged. You just get the battery out of it. Then gets your body and head, open it up and just put it in like this. When you get your battery n and your SD card in, your camera is good to go. Now you can just click this and now your camera turns on here you can see it is showing some of the settings. Now, the only thing that remains now we can not see anything right now because we do not have a lens. So we can either go for a prime lens like this one. It is a 50 millimeter prime lens. And this is the second one, which is 18, 55 millimeter kit lens. So for this example, I will be mounting this 18, 55 millimeter kit lens. And here it is, the lens cap cope. And how to mount. Here you can see this is a white dot on the other lens. You can see it as a red dot. Every lens guns with such darts and even the body has a mark on it, like this is the red mark. So you have to actually take your lens and bring it close to that map. When you get it right, you just have to rotate it like this. And you will hear a click and your lens is mounted. When you have done this, just take off your lens cap and you are booked to go for shooting. So I'm already turned on the camera. I just click on this button to turn on live view. And here it is. Now I'm Senior routine across the lens. So here it is. I have the lens, please in front. And I have the camera in my hand. I can just click on this button to click a picture. And it gives me a picture. Also, I can click on this button and the flash pops up, and I click. It takes a picture. Now on your lens, you can actually see these buttons, which C, E, F, and M, F. And if it is an ASTM lens, you will also get an image stabilizer button. So you can just turn it to manual focus for manual focus and autofocus for AF. So here I have it on manual focus. On manual focus, you actually have to turn this dial to get your objects in focus. So here it is. Let's turn this into auto mode. And we have our subject here. Let's focus in Tibet and you're focused. So we took this picture and head it is. So this is the picture that we took on the cameras auto mode. And these are the settings that camera used. This one was 60 is going to be the shutter speed. This fourth point though is the aperture. And by using these settings, the camera took a picture with the flashlight. 3. Modes, Menu Basics: So in the previous lecture, we talked about the DSLR camera body lens a little bit about how to turn it on, how to turn it off, and how to take a picture, like we talked about, clicking on this button to take a picture. So now we're progressing towards some intermediate level thing that is going to be these moods. So what are these modes? How to change these modes, and when to choose which mode. So first of all, you will obviously have to turn on your camera. I just turned it on. And then you have to turn on the live view. So here I am in the live view or I can just move back. And now you can see it says Seen intelligent auto. And that is because I am on the automobile. In this mode, the camera actually decides everything. For instance, if I turn on the live view, here, you can see my subject is in the front and I'm not going to change any of the settings. And if I just click on this button to take picture, camera takes a picture. I haven't changed any of the settings. Camera automatically decides all of the ISO, exposure, shutter count, etc, etc. We're going to talk about that later in this class. So the next thing is the manual mode. So when you go to the manual mode, it says manual exposure. And when you are inside the manual mode, you actually have to change all of these settings by yourself, e.g. here you can see it says 1/60. This is the shutter count. You can change that by just changing this dial. Here you can see the shutter count changes. Next thing you can see here, this aperture. You can change the aperture by holding this button and then moving the dial and see the aperture changes. Here you can see it goes down to a specific limit and then stops. And that is because of your lens capacity, e.g. if you are using 18, 55 millimeter lens, it will actually change from 4.0 up to 5.6 max depending upon which focal length you are using. On the other hand, if you're using a prime lens like that, 150 millimeter, you can go up to 1.8 and 1.4 if supported. So this is about the manual mode. You have to set everything by yourself. And when it comes to the ISO, you actually have to click on this button. And you can change the ISO. Or the other thing that you can do is click on this button queue and then move to the ISO. Here you can see. And then rotate the dial to increase or decrease diocese. So this is how you change all of these settings. The next thing is AV mode. So when you go to AV mode, it says aperture priority. So in the aperture priority, you actually use this button to change the aperture. Similarly, if you go to TV, it says shutter priority. In this, when you change the dial, you actually change the shutter count and remaining things are decided by your camera. If you go to the p.band, It's this program. And this time again, all of these settings are particle. Then you have some of these modes here which see the flash of radiative or to portrait, landscape, close-up, sports, food, night portrait, et cetera. And all of these things are actually done according to the subject e.g. at the moment I'm doing everything in low light. I can go with the night photography mode. If I had a subject, Humans object, I will go for portrait mode. If I were to shoot a mountain, a cliff or something like that, I would have opted a landscape mode. So this is all about these photography modes. Now actually we are not going to talk about videography in this particular learning session. But I can just show you like if you move to the ends, it goes into the video mode. And this time you do not start the video by clicking on this button, but you have to click on this to start the video, e.g. you can see it says the video is now recording and it is showing you the frame rate, the dimensions, duration. And again, I have to just click on this and the video gets off. So this is about the basics of all of these modes. And we also discussed how to change these particular settings related to your camera. Also, if you are in manual mode, e.g. here I am in manual mode. And here it is, the live view. Inside the library. If I press on q, I can actually change the ISO from here. And I can change the image quality from here. To make it more easy, you can just change the style and you can see the settings singe. Similarly had I have some of the auto correction modes for the brightness levels. This is for the image subject, e.g. you can change this to portrait landscape, but sector depending upon what you have in your front. This is for the white balance, which actually add some dark colors into your scene according to the lighting condition. You have single shooting with continuous shooting mode in which you actually have a single click or a shattered or abreast of pictures. And in the end you have this autofocus mode, which you choose depending upon what you are going to do. And you can always turn autofocus off and on using these buttons. Now again, just to click the pictures. Here you have your subject. And then using this style, this larger one, you can zoom in or out. But this actually happens only in zoom lens. And the second dial is used to change the focus as I told you earlier. So here I have this subject and it is, it gets focused. And I guess I have to change the ISO or burden to get the maximum. So let's increase eyes. Yes, this looks good. You can just turn this off. Everything is nice, everything is focused. And just 321, click here, you have a good looking picture. This is the one that product using the autofocus and creative or two more. And this is the one that we clicked using the manual focus and everything manual. So this was a bit about the basics of different modes of the DSLR camera. 4. Exposure Triangle: So the basic thing that every beginner, intermediate and advanced photographer wants to know and must know as the exposure triangle. So the exposure triangle is actually a triangle of three things that decide the exposure in a picture. So the exponent is actually how bright you want your picture to be. The bright. I mean, all of the things like the subject is getting all of the light, the background is properly balanced according to the satellite and all of that stuff. This is called explore here. But to explore here can't be managed actually by just one thing. So g actually have a triangle of three things that merge or you can see that combined and make up the export your perfect for your picture. Now, those three things are ISO, shutter speed and aperture. So first of all, let's begin with ISO. Iso is actually like the lighting inside your picture, but this is not the natural lighting. It the artificial lighting, e.g. you can see right now, I'm turning this camera on. It says the ISO is at 1,600. So if I see the subject right now, here you can see the scene is properly lit, but this 1,600 ISO means that this all is artificial lighting. So I will go ahead and decrease the exposure. But they tended in light intensity decreases. Similarly with the 400, it decreases on further and buy the 100. The light is minimal. It's 1600260400, it is the maximum. So ISO is simply the amount of artificial light you want in your picture and buy-in saying this artificial light. And why you should not exceed the limit of ISO and try to keep it under 800 or even at 400 or 200. And daylight scenes is because this increase of artificial light is actually going to cost you a lot of noise and grain inside your picture. So this is why you want your ISO to be in-between 100 to 800 or even 1,600 in some conditions. But all of those conditions actually depend where you are shooting. If you are in a wedding, lighting is proper everywhere. You can go with the ISO, around 800, 400, or even 1,600. If you are going for a product photography, you have minimum lighting or a night portrayed or something like that, you have to go with 3,200 or even 6,400 if your device is good and can manage up to one, a double zero. And if you are shooting in daylight, it is recommended to keep your ISO in-between 100 to 200 because at that point the natural light is coming in properly. So this was all about ISO, which is the first corner of the exposure triangle. Now, let's move towards the second corner of export. Your triangle is shutter speed. Now, the shutter speed head, as you can actually see, it is measured in one over dash. Now, this dash I'm saying just because to make it clear, like one over dashed line, it's actually a digit. So that is your shutter speed. And how to calculate your optimum shutter speed, especially in videography, is to multiply the frame rate you're shooting on with two, e.g. if you're shooting on the frame rate 30, you are good to go with 1/60 shutter speed. If you are shooting on 24th, frame rate per second, go with 1/50. And if you are going for 60 frames, go with Von where Von 20. So you can always change the shutter speed by just moving this dial in manual mode. Here you can see it is changing. And what happens with the change the shutter speed is if you decrease it, the scene becomes more dried. And if you increase it, the scene becomes a bit dark, but that is not actually what the shutter speed does. Especially in videography. If you have a subject moving in front of your camera, you will see that lower shutter speed will make the object started. It is the highest point. It will make the object's movement smoother. So it is actually important when you are going for sports photography because if you have a subject moving at a faster speed, it is recommended to go with the highest year to speed, because if you will go with the lower shutter speed, the image will always be blurred because the object will be always auto-focus. So this is the second corner of exposure triangle. Now the third thing is, is aperture. Now for the aperture, you actually need to know about how our eyes work. So our eyes have a retina, cornea, iris pupil, et cetera, which actually allow the light from environment to enter. And similarly in that way, the aperture allows the light to enter. So what the picture actually does is it controls the amount of natural light coming into the scene, e.g. here you can see if I change the aperture, the amount of light in the scene changes. And this is actually the natural light that is coming into the scene. That is why people always go for the prime lenses, the 50 millimeter lens, it's been going for portrait photography because that has actually a lower aperture which allows maximum natural light to enter. So what we learned here from the exposure triangle is you have to adjust the amount of natural light entering into your scene by changing your aperture. When you have got that right, you have to change the shutter speed to make your objects look normal and normally moving. And with that said, you have to change the ISO to make sure that you are seeing is properly lit. And vendors you have done all of these three things. You will have the perfect exposure in your scene or in your image, and you will be good to go, but the best quality images. So this was all about exposure triangle. 5. Final Word, Class Project: Congratulations, you have completed the class, learned the basics of DSLR. So now you actually know a bit more about your camera than you did before starting this class. So right now, you actually have to do me a favor. You have to leave an honest review on this class. So I will get to know about my drawbacks and I can make up all of those shortcomings in my upcoming classes. Also, open up our discussion about the class. You can ask me any question or you can even suggest me which class you want next. Because as you can see on my profile, I have versatility and I can touch different types of genres. So in the end, one more thing that I'm going to ask you is grab your DSLR, take a picture and post that as a class projects. So I get to know that you have officially and successfully click the picture using your new DSLR. So this was all for this class. See you in the nucleus soon. Tilden, take care, Happy learning.