DSLR simulator App for photography instructors & students
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camerasim/id490143473?mt=8
https://download.cnet.com/CameraSim/3000-20414_4-77468144.html
Exposure Compensation (for automated exposure modes)
http://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-features/advanced-settings/ec/
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/995/EXPOSURE/EV-compensation.html
http://www.shortcourses.com/use/using3-4.html
Cameras allow the user to conveniently adjust the exposure
to over or under expose in increments of 1/3 stop up to plus
or minus who stops.
-2 -1 0 +1 +2 Over exposing by +1 stop might be just right
|..|..|..|..| photographing a bright scene as the one above.
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The snow scene above is typical of scenes that are lighter
than 18 percent gray. Most of the important tones in the
scene are at the lighter end of the gray scale. The overall
"average" tone would be about one stop brighter than middle
gray. For a good picture you have to increase the exposure
by one stop (+1) to lighten it. If you didn't do this, the
snow in the scene would appear too gray (bottom).
Using the Focus/Exposure Lock
http://www.digicamhelp.com/basic-techniques/fe-lock/
http://www.digicamhelp.com/taking-photos/basic-techniques/autofocus-problems-and-solutions/
http://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-features/shooting-modes/face-detection/
http://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-features/camera-modes/focus-modes/
Many digital cameras are set to default to focus continually
or have another focus mode that causes the camera to
automatically select the main area that will be focused in a
scene. These modes can be unreliable, resulting in poorly
focused, soft looking images.
For optimal results for the vast majority of scenes, switch
to a single or center area focus mode and lock focus where
you want it. Also make sure to set the diopter setting so
that lines, boxes and information in the viewfinder is
sharp.
When pressing the shutter button half way, the camera comes
alive--determining where to focus and determining what
combinations shutter speed, aperture and sometimes ISO
setting to give a proper exposure.
Many times you want to focus on a subject that not in the
center of the image.
When the subject you want to expose (or focus) correctly is
off-center, you can lock exposure (and focus) by pressing
the shutter button halfway down and then, without releasing
the shutter button, recompose the image.
Basic Photography: A Set of Exercises
http://teeksaphoto.org/Writing/BasicPhotoExercises.html
Photography Tutorials
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.geofflawrence.com
TO REALLY CHALLEGE YOURSELF -- SHOOT IN MANUAL (M) EXPOSURE MODE.
Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 2: Manual Mode and More
https://lifehacker.com/328488/master-your-dslr-camera-part-2-manual-mode-and-more
Book Recommendations
John Berger
About Looking
Pantheon (1980)
ISBN: 0679736557
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John
Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting
insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of
the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores
our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in
what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us
of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the
twentieth century? What is it about looking at war
photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How
do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority
and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude
inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other
questions, Berger quietly -- but fundamentally -- alters the
vision of anyone who reads his work.
Leslie Stroebel, Hollis Todd, Richard Zakia
Visual Concepts for Photographers
Focal Press Limited (1980)
ISBN: 0240510259
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