What is photography all about? And what is it for you personally? Questions that you might have asked yourself before and found or not found an answer to. In this video I want to share my own thought process to come up with an answer for what photography is for me.

The Exposure Triangle comprises aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. These three camera and lens controls work together to regulate the amount of light that makes it to the light-sensitive surface (aperture and shutter speed) and the sensitivity of that surface (film or digital ISO).

To see the light meter doing its thing, put your camera in Manual Mode and look for a series of dots or vertical lines at the bottom of your camera's viewfinder. In Manual Mode, look at the bottom of the screen in your viewfinder. Notice the scale with zero in the middle. That is the light meter at work

There are three main metering modes: Center-weighted average metering; spot and partial metering; and evaluative, pattern, or matrix metering.

Exposure compensation is used to alter exposure from the value selected by the camera, making photographs brighter or darker. In modes P, S, and A, the camera automatically adjusts settings for optimal exposure, but this may not always produce the exposure the photographer intended

Shooting modes fall into three categories: auto, scene, and P, S, A, and M modes. In auto and scene modes the camera controls shutter speed and aperture. P, S, A, and M modes are known as exposure modes and give photographers a choice as to which elements of exposure—aperture or shutter speed—they wish to control.

Dynamic range (abbreviated DR, DNR, or DYR) is the ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume. It is often used in the context of signals, like sound and light.

HDR photography (high dynamic range) is a technique that involves capturing multiple images of the same scene using different exposure values, and then combining those images into a single image that represents the full range of tonal values within the scene you photographed.

Expose to the right means exposing your image to push the peaks of the histogram as near to the right side of the graph as possible without clipping the highlights. Then, in your favorite photo editing suite, the shot is then processed to reduce the brightness and bring the final image back to your desired exposure.

An exposure stop is a doubling of a halving of the amount of light one is working with during a particular exposure. It could be the amount of ambient light in a room, it could be the amount of light we are adding to a scene using strobes, it could be the amount of light being allowed to enter the camera.

Put simply, composition is how the elements of a photo are arranged. ... It's how the artist puts those things within a frame that help a photograph become more or less interesting to the viewer. A good photograph will take many different parts and combine them into an aesthetically pleasing whole.

Negative space is the area surrounding the main subject in a photograph which is left unoccupied. Put simply, it is the space around the object itself that helps define the positive space (or main focus). When used creatively together, negative and positive space can communicate the composition of your photograph.

Leading lines are lines that appear in a photograph that have been framed and positioned by the photographer to draw the viewer's eye towards a specific point of interest. These lines often draw the viewer's eye in a specific direction or towards a designated portion of the photograph.

Symmetry (also known as formal balance) is achieved when both sides of the image hold equal weight. ... Each photograph is equally balanced if split down the middle, yet one is literally symmetrical and the other uses different elements of the composition to appear symmetrical.

The camera angle marks the specific location at which the movie camera or video camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot from several camera angles simultaneously. ... The different camera angles will have different effects on the viewer and how they perceive the scene that is shot.

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Open the image in Photoshop and select the crop tool. Draw a crop box over the image. Next, click on the overlay options and select the composition tool you want: the golden ratio (phi grid) or the golden spiral (Fibonacci spiral). Adjust the crop box to fine-tune your composition.

Layering. By overlapping objects you help the viewer to reconstruct the three-dimensional scene in their mind. This allows them to mentally be "in" the scene, rather than just seeing a photo of it, creating a much stronger sense of depth.

A wide-angle lens increases your horizontal scope, while a telephoto lens allows you to focus in on a subject from far away. ... Wide-angle lenses generally have a longer depth of field, which means that they are not the right fit for a situation like portrait photography, where you only want the subject in sharp focus