10 Great Digital Photography Basics Tutorials
Stumble it!Before learning the advanced techniques, I believe that you should start off with digital photography basics. These things may not look that important to you but they are. Learning about exposure, apperture rate, FOV, Macro, Micro etc is what makes you a better photographer than the rest.
1- Introduction to Photography
A Great tutorial which covers almost everything that you need to start off with. It expains how the camera works, what are the basics and how to take better photographs.
2- Basic Guide to Digital Cameras for Beginners
Another great basic guide to digital cameras for beginners. This tutorial covers Pixels, Aspect Ratio, Sensor Size, White Balance, Sensitivity, Digital Zoom and Optical Zoom, Difference between JPEG, TIFF and RAW, Display, Printing, DPI and PPI, Memory, Digital Camera Interface, etc. A recommended tutorial for beginners.
3- Understanding Camera Shutter Speeds and Apertures
Understanding Shutter Speed and Aperture is one of the most important factor in digital photography. This tutorial covers it all.
4- Learning ISO Speed
This is a nifty tutorial that lets you learn everything about Camera’s ISO Speed including ISO sensitivity, Speed, Exposure, Noise,Image Sensor Size and much more.
5- How to correctly use Light in Photography
The use of light in a photograph can be the deciding factor of whether that picture will be spectacular or terrible. Here’s a nifty tutorial that explains how light works in photography.
6- Taking Pictures at Night
This tutorial shows you how to take better pictures at night. What kind of exposure and aperture does it require, how much light do you need etc.
7- Taking Stunning Pictures of People
Darren Rose (one of my favorite bloggers) wrote a great tutorial on how to take stunning portraits. A recommended tutorial.
8- Learning DayLight Photography
Another great tutorial for learning daylight photography. Natalie Norton explains how to take better pictures using exposure, aperture etc in daylight.
9- Taking Landscape Pictures
This tutorial explains how to take nifty landscape pictures. It details on using tripods, the right filters, lenses, researching the landscape, composition and much more.
10- Winter Photography
Nice tutorial on how to take pictures of Gorgeous landscapes, early morning fog lifting off the frozen lake, the glistening icicles on the tree branches.