Learning Dslr
EP01: Focal Length, Angle of View and Crop Factor – Back to Basics by Learning DSLR
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Digital SLR Photography, Show Me How Videos $29.95 Digital SLR Photography With Mark Duehmig IN THIS VIDEO YOU WILL LEARN How to get the most from the functionality on your camera: What makes digital SLRs different than film cameras Take control of your camera exposure Manual control of shutter speed for better stop-action photos How to adjust your camera for any lighting conditions Avoid common mistakes with multifunction camer… |
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Digital Sports Photography Made Simple $25.82 Digital Sports Photography DVD This DVD teaches the fundamentals and advanced techniques for shooting awesome sports photos using any digital SLR camera and a basic zoom lens. Taking great sports photos isn’t about equipment, it’s about learning professional techniques…. |
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Digital Photography Unleashed: Capturing Wildly Great Pictures $24.95 Learn the basics of digital photography in Jim Miotke’s new DVD, “Digital Photography Unleashed: Capturing Wildly Great Photos”. This jam-packed DVD is over 2 hours long. Each of the four segments is just under a half hour, and helpful bonus materials are included as well. The four segments are:• Learning the Basics (with Andy the Mountain Lion)• Day at the Ranch (where we photograph h… |
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Transcend 16GB Class 10 SDHC Card (TS16GSDHC10) $9.99 TRANSCEND INFORMATION TRANSCEND 16GB SDHC CARD (SD 3.0 SPD CLASS 10) Manufacturer : TRANSCEND INFORMATION UPC : 760557817246… |
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Canon EOS Rebel T3i 18 MP CMOS APS-C Sensor DIGIC 4 Image Processor Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens + Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens $1,198.00 Kit includes:♦ 1) Canon EOS Rebel T3i Digital SLR Camera Body & EF-S 18-55mm IS II Lens♦ 2) Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Zoom LensThe Canon EOS Rebel T3i features Canon’s DIGIC 4 Image Processor and an 18.0 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor. Other cutting-edge technologies include Full HD video recording, Live View shooting, wireless flash photography and even a Vari-angle 3.0-inch LCD m… |
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Canon Rebel XS 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens (Black) $385.00 Ideal for a wide range of photographers from first-time digital SLR users to veteran photo enthusiasts, the new Canon EOS Rebel XS camera is designed to embody what you have come to expect from the EOS Rebel series — a fast, non-intimidating, lightweight, easy-to-use camera that produces excellent images and starts emerging photographers off on the right foot. Immediately, photographers will take… |
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Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera $11.49 With more than 350,000 copies sold, Understanding Exposure has demystified the complex concepts of exposure for countless photographers. Now updated with current technologies, more than one hundred new images, and an all-new chapter, this new edition will inspire you more than ever to free yourself from “auto” and create the pictures you truly want. In his trademark easy-to-understand … |
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The Digital Photography Book $12.98 In this book, author Scott Kelby tackles the most important side of of digital photography–how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today s top digital pros use (and it s easier than you d think). This isn t a book of theory – full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts. This is a book of which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and nearly two hundred of the mos… |
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David Busch’s Nikon D5100 Guide to Digital SLR Photography $17.99 The Nikon D5100 is the most advanced entry-level camera that Nikon has ever introduced. It boasts 16.2 megapixels of resolution, sophisticated full HD movie-making capabilities, and blazing fast automatic focus. As the owner of a Nikon D5100, you demand the ability to take outstanding pictures with your new camera. DAVID BUSCH’S NIKON D5100 GUIDE TO DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY shows you how, when, and… |
What is the best beginner book to learn DSLR photography?
Well I’m really “old school” so I’ll suggest a few books.
“Digital SLR Photography” by John Freeman.
“The Art of Digital Photography” by Joseph Meehan.
Photographer/author David Busch has written a Guide for just about every DSLR made so buy his Guide for your camera. It will help clear up those parts of the Manual that weren’t very well-written. http://www.dbusch.com
Books are much more transportable than on-line tutorials unless you print them out.
Of course you’ll have to seriously READ & STUDY the Owner’s Manual for your camera.
Now for an editorial:
I am in complete disagreement with the idea of just shooting and shooting and shooting. This is what I call the “machine gunner mentality” – take 300 pictures and hope a few are worth saving. Really now – if you take 300 lousy pictures and don’t know why they are lousy, what have you learned? Other than how to take 300 lousy pictures.
I encourage the “sniper mentality” – one exposure, one good picture. Photography requires thinking and thinking requires time. You must first see a scene and then decide (think about) how you’re going to make the picture you want to make.
“Pictures are not taken, they are made.” Ansel Adams.
A photographer “sees” while others merely “look”. Confused? A photographer, when coming upon a meadow, will see the blue sky and white puffy clouds and the bright yellow wildflowers and instantly think: “Get the tripod and a wide angle and a polarizer and use f16 and exclude that dead tree to the right and this is gonna be a good one!” Another person might glance at the yellow wildflowers and keep walking. They “looked” but they didn’t “see”. Thinking/seeing like I described takes time. So learn to slow down.
By slowing down you’ll also learn to see a scene in different ways. Often, just a couple of feet to the right or left can dramatically change a scene. So can sitting down or lying flat on your belly or standing on a bench or tree stump. Try different compositions by zooming in or out. Get that flower between you and the sun and shoot the light coming through the petals. Lie flat on your back and shoot up through the flowers or trees. Don’t just stand there like a statue and point and shoot.
Good luck. Photography is a never-ending learning process.