deep dive into photography with this guide!! 🎞️📷

1) It’s so confusing! 😩

Although we take and look at many photos every day, it must still feel daunting to step into photography as a proper hobby. I know I was so confused by all the terms and numbers being thrown around when I first started back in secondary school.

Therefore, I’m creating a multi-part guide on the fundamentals of photography in the next few weeks to guide anyone that’s interested through the maze of ISOs, f-stops and shutter speeds. Hopefully, by the end of this guide, you’ll be confident enough to buy that first camera you’ve always wanted but were too scared you’d not know how to use!

2) What is photography? 📷🧐

So, what is photography? In essence, photography can be broken down into two main parts: Light and Composition. Both play a major role in determining whether a photo is good.

But what would the point of a well-composed photo be if you couldn’t see the subject in the first place? That’s why we will cover light, or more specifically, controlling the amount of light we let into a photograph in the following few parts of this guide.

3) Variables and the exposure triangle! 🤓🔼

There are three crucial variables affecting the amount of light in a photograph. These are Aperture (also known as f-stop), ISO (or labelled ASA on older film cameras) and Shutter Speed. These three variables come together to form the exposure triangle, a concept fundamental to photography!

We won’t go in-depth in this first part, but it will be vital for you to familiarise yourself with these terms before advancing to the subsequent parts of this guide!

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