The Exposure Triangle

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With aperture, the lower the aperture the shorter your focal distance is. The first photo is an aperture of f/22, and the second is an aperture of f/5.6. As you can see, the larger aperture has more of the background in focus. Typically for portraits you want a smaller aperture, and a larger aperture for landscapes.

Raising your ISO will brighten your image, at the cost of image quality. The first photo is an ISO of 26000, and the second is an ISO of 100. Raising your ISO should be a last effort.

Typically, in order to get a blur motion photo, you would need a shutter speed of 1/250 sec. In order to get freeze motion, you would need a shutter speed of 1/500 sec.

Autofocus Points

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The autofocus points in a camera can be really useful and important when needed. My camera, the Canon EOS Rebel SL3, has nine total autofocus points, all cross-focus. Some cameras will have vertical autofocus points, or horizontal autofocus points, as well as cross-focus, which goes both ways. Most cameras will have a combination of the two.

Focal Length

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Focal length is basically how far you are from the subject and how close you are zoomed in. The focal length of a photo can change the shape and proportions of a subject, as well as the background. For people I prefer to use a focal length between 75mm and 135mm.

Encounter 1

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I was walking in a park when I passed a Koi fish pond. there was a dispenser that would give you fish food to feed the fish for some change. The bags from the dispenser were EVERYWHERE in the water.

Automotive Light Painting

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Light painting is essentially taking several photos of the same object with lights capturing each specific part of the object. Then stacking the images in Photoshop and blending the desired parts of each image together to create the final product. Its the same as HDR photos, only instead of focusing on colors all over the photos, your focusing on lighting in specific areas of each photo.

Black And White Photos

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Black and white photos are fun and easy to do. In photoshop, you just make a bunch of adjustment layers relative to brightness/contrast, black and white, and curves. If necessary, add a vignette to the edges of your photo, and your done.

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