Grasping My Head Around Everything??? Please Help?

[new photographer]

Hi,
I learn by example or by being shown very SIMPLY what to do.
It seems that no matter how many times I read Understanding Exposure or read an article or watch a video about understanding the manual settings and what settings to put my camera on for different circumstances.
Reading online posts out there other people seem to learn the same way and are also having great difficulty in understanding these concepts too.
It is now beginning to aggravate me.
I have never been so hopeless in my life. Pretty much so far everything has just come to me. I have been blessed with an absorbant mind but these concepts fail me.

Please, If you don't mind. Could you take some precious time to help me.
I know its a big big ask but I am lost and I am improving so once I grasp these concepts I cannot wait to see the outcome

Thankyou dearly,
Newzealand girl

 

[JWellman]

Hopefully someone will come along with advice. I can feel for you because I have really struggled as well. Some of the things that have helped me (besides this forum) are taking constant photos, making adjustments and trying again. I also read a lot and practice every single day.

Good luck and don't stress so much about it. It won't come to you overnight but it will start to slowly sink in and become easier.

Jess

 

[photocist]

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[RockstarPhotography]

ok. ISO. The higher this is set, the more light your sensor can read, high iso's come at the cost of high noise so you want this set as low as you can while maintaing shutter speeds that you can work with. Aperture. This dictates how much light will enter the camera. shutter speed. This dictates how long the light will enter the camera. aperture will change you depth of field (how much of the picture is in focus). shutter speeds will freeze movement. (fast).

OK. What are you taking a picture of? Lets say its a flower on a sunny day. with all the available light, you can have a very low iso. now, do we have to freeze motion? no, the flower is still. So we can decide what aperature we plan to shoot with for the depth of field we want. Put you camera on manual, iso 200, and set the aperture where you want. now look through the viewfinder. On the bottom is a light meter with a - on one end and a + on the other. adjust shutter speed till it is in the middle.

If your shooting a moving subject you would want to decide what shutter speed to use, and adjust aperture untill you get the light meter in the middle. by bumping up the iso, we can also change the Meter.

Good luck.

 

[OrionsByte]

Give yourself little experiments to do. Knowledge alone will only get you so far, but experience will give depth to that knowledge and make it useful.

Go outside on a sunny day, pick a subject, set your camera to Av, and take several shots at different apertures, focal lengths, and distance. Study the results, and learn from them.

Stop reading, start shooting. Take crappy photos. Lots of them. Learn from them. Eventually you'll be able to look at a crappy photo and know why it's crappy and what you need to do to fix it. You're not going to gain that ability by reading anything here or in a book or watching videos; they'll get you started, but eventually the rubber's gotta meet the road.

 

[new photographer]

ok. ISO. The higher this is set, the more light your sensor can read, high iso's come at the cost of high noise so you want this set as low as you can while maintaing shutter speeds that you can work with. Aperture. This dictates how much light will enter the camera. shutter speed. This dictates how long the light will enter the camera. aperture will change you depth of field (how much of the picture is in focus). shutter speeds will freeze movement. (fast).

OK. What are you taking a picture of? Lets say its a flower on a sunny day. with all the available light, you can have a very low iso. now, do we have to freeze motion? no, the flower is still. So we can decide what aperature we plan to shoot with for the depth of field we want. Put you camera on manual, iso 200, and set the aperture where you want. now look through the viewfinder. On the bottom is a light meter with a - on one end and a + on the other. adjust shutter speed till it is in the middle.

If your shooting a moving subject you would want to decide what shutter speed to use, and adjust aperture untill you get the light meter in the middle. by bumping up the iso, we can also change the Meter.

Good luck.

thanks so much! that was really helpful!
Thankyou for your time

 

[new photographer]

Give yourself little experiments to do. Knowledge alone will only get you so far, but experience will give depth to that knowledge and make it useful.

Go outside on a sunny day, pick a subject, set your camera to Av, and take several shots at different apertures, focal lengths, and distance. Study the results, and learn from them.

Stop reading, start shooting. Take crappy photos. Lots of them. Learn from them. Eventually you'll be able to look at a crappy photo and know why it's crappy and what you need to do to fix it. You're not going to gain that ability by reading anything here or in a book or watching videos; they'll get you started, but eventually the rubber's gotta meet the road.

ok thankyou so much!!

 

[480sparky67 66]

Make a list of everything you don't understand.

Pick ONE item from that list. Post it here. Google it. Read about it. Learn about it. Do everything you can to learn about that one item.

Once you understand it, then move on to another item on the list.

 

[GraspTheMoment]

good advice 480 - I just wish there weren't so many topics!! LOL

 

[480sparky67 66]

good advice 480 - I just wish there weren't so many topics!! LOL

So was learning how to drive.