welcome to the noob photographer. i hope you could get all the basic information to help you through the journey into serious photography world.
i couldn't say when i started photography, because ever since young, i always had passion in arts and uses my dad's film canon and spending a lot on developing films. i brought my first (D)SLR when i saved enough money from my job, in 31st Dec 2008. Before this, i am a photo editor for over 5 years, photographer would pass me photo to touch up their photo, so my understanding on color is quite sturdy. Its 2 years has pass (its 2011 jan now), i learned a lot in my journey, here i am to share with you the things i learned, in a noob way (no heavily formula diagrams that confuse even me) and with photo example (i hope).
Most my sharing will direct or indirectly involve Photography, Gears, Styles, Arts and some logic or common sense.
But before i go deeper into my sharing. The first thing i wanted to share is how people's perception using 'custom' or 'full manual' is the PROfessional way. It is so wrong. We paid an amount of money for a DSLR (its not cheap anyway), and we expect it holds good technology and smart enough to work for us, not the other way around that we still have to work for it.
if you think using the manual way is the PRO way, well, if you own a business, then throw away all your computer and calculator, and buy abacus, because abacus is the manual PRO way. *smirk*
the metaphor of buying a car fits in well, driving a manual car is good as it give you the feel of PRO and in control of the car, but still, many of us will buy an automatic transmission car, because we wanted it to be in Auto, but you still can use it semi-auto thingie, was it called 'shift-tronic' or something. To make our life easier. so, its not necessary to use full manual give full advantage, sometimes automatic is as good.
here is the list of thing i going to talk about,
About Accessories.
LCD Screen Protector
Filters - to protect, or to improves?
Neck strap
Tripod - do we really need one?
Vertical Grip (some call the Body Grip) - do it really help?
Rechargeable Batteries (for flash gun) getting one that is reliable.
and proper Charger for it.
Taking Care of your Camera
Changing lens
Drybox
Moisture Condensation
Carrier eg: Bags
Basic of how a picture appear from a Digital Sensor.
exposure Triangle.
Shutter Speed
Aperture
ISO
Camera Settings:
Flash
Metering Modes
AF Modes
White Balance
Dynamic color alteration (DRO, Dlighting)
extra features eg: Sony's Auto HDR
Drive Mode
single
burst
braketing
WB braketing
