Photography Course

[*Lolapalooza*]

Is it just me thats reallllly slow to pick up photography lingo or does it take everyone a while??

I started a TAFE course on DSLR yesterday and have been trying to keep aperture, ISO, depth of field in my head and the right way round big sigh!

I will hopefully be able to do some amnual pics but must say itmakes me really appreciate automatic setting on my camera. It takes out all the guess work

[Kirislin]

No, it's not just you.

[grace]

I have a lot of trouble with it as well. Find it very confusing but one day am hoping the penny will drop and it will all sink in and make sense.

[Lab lady]

I have just finished a tafe course and the first 3 weeks were all in the classroom learning aperture, exposure etc the fourth lesson was a night photo shot and it was like the lightbulb going off in my head, it all started to make sense. I have only been using my camera on the manual setting ever since.

[Linda K]

the problem with using the auto setting, is that you are letting the camera decide how to take the photo (which it will do, without any artistic decision) - you need to learn all the stuff to take control of how YOU want to expose the photo, making the judgement call on the settings so you get the depth of field and exposure the way you want, not just at the 18% grey that the camera wants it at (which makes white snow grey and black dogs grey too for instance). A highly recommended book is "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson, which is great at putting the relationship between all those things and how they relate to each other, and helping you take the scary leap from auto to manual and not freak out with it.

[*Lolapalooza*]

I have just finished a tafe course and the first 3 weeks were all in the classroom learning aperture, exposure etc the fourth lesson was a night photo shot and it was like the lightbulb going off in my head, it all started to make sense. I have only been using my camera on the manual setting ever since.

So theres hope for me yet!