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How the Shutter and Mirror Work (Common Sense Photography)

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Next: What Do I Need to Know About Camera Lenses? How the Shutter and Mirror Work. Get really familiar with that camera manual to increase your photography skills! Knowing how to operate the camera and what its capabilities are is essential for great photographs! If you can work a computer a little or drive a car you can learn to work a camera! Not knowing how to work your equipment can really handicap a photographer! Shutters are usually operated electronically. Standard shutter speeds are measured in f...

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How to Set White Balance (Common Sense Photography)

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Next: Should I Get a Compact Digital Camera or a SLR Digital Camera? How to Set White Balance. Setting White Balance is simply changing the background color of photographs. White balance can be really confusing at first. Remember how film would turn out greenish for a picture under fluorescent light, or if the area was just lit by incandescent bulbs how the picture would look yellow? 1900 K is for a candle flame. 2800 K is for Tungsten or incandescent light bulb (standard light bulb). 5000 K Typical day.

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An online book of Macro Photography - by Rhett Stuart (Macro-Photography.org)

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How to Take Good Macro Photographs. How is the Magnification of a Macro Lens Rated with Digital SLR? Sensor Size with Macro Pictures and Compact Digital Cameras. Focusing with Macro Photography. Why Do I Need Focusing Rails? Depth of Field with Macro Photography. Best Shutter Speeds for Macro Photography. Lens Shake and Mirror Lockup. Lighting with Macro Photography. Diffused Lighting and Reflective Lighting. The Freezer and Glass Cups. Best Macro Photography Equipment Setups. 50mm to 65mm Macro Lenses.

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Why Do I Need Focusing Rails? (Macro-Photography.org)

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Next: Depth of Field with Macro Photography. Why Do I Need Focusing Rails? 1x to 4x macro shots makes focusing very important. The focusing ring doesn’t help much. The whole camera needs to be moved to be properly focused. Parts of the flower only one millimeter away from the focal plane of focus can be very blurry. The camera needs to be moved very slowly to get the focus right. Next: Depth of Field with Macro Photography. About this site and why we are Green. Send us an e-mail.

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How to Take Good Macro Photographs (Macro-Photography.org)

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Next: How is the Magnification of a Macro Lens Rated with Digital SLR? How to Take Good Macro Photographs. Macro Photography is very fun and fulfilling! Learning a few simple principles will help you relax and get those great close up macro pictures! This is written for macro SLR digital photography, but the principles can be applied to compact digital cameras, film 35mm, and other camera sizes. Next: How is the Magnification of a Macro Lens Rated with Digital SLR? About this site and why we are Green.

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Using Wide Angle Lenses for Close Up Photographs and the 250D Close Up Filter (Macro-Photography.org)

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Next: Macro Lens Alternatives and Attachments. Using Wide Angle Lenses for Close Up Photographs and the 250D Close Up Filter. Wide angle lenses can give neat wide distorted close up views with a lot of Depth of Field. For example with a 24mm lens everything 8 away at f/22 is in focus. With a 35mm lens everything 12 and farther at f/16 is in focus. Shortens the closest focusing distance and gives macro world views. A 12mm tube gives about .8X and a 25mm tube gives 1:1 magnification. Send us an e-mail.

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How the Camera Aperture Works (Common Sense Photography)

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Next: What is Depth of Field? How the Camera Aperture Works. The aperture is the adjustable opening in the lens. The aperture is like the pupil of your eye. The aperture blades make the opening bigger or smaller, just like your iris makes your pupil dilate larger and smaller to allow in more or less light. F/2 The eye and a camera lens at f/2, and a photograph taken at f/2. The sweet spot of a lens is usually at f/8 for an aperture setting. The sweet spot for an aperture setting is the aperture that ...

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The Best Way to Save Digital Pictures (Common Sense Photography)

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Next: What is Dynamic Range? The Best Way to Save Digital Pictures. Digital pictures have a bad habit of self destruction. Hard drives crash, memory cards get bent and damaged, CDs only last for 10-20 years before the thin metal begins to deteriorate, and the images are lost. CD players only last about 5-15 years so eventually there will be no CD players when new ones are not made anymore. Gold CD’s might need to be purchased at a specialty photography store. It is worth the effort to save them!

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Camera Sensors in SLR Digital Cameras (Common Sense Photography)

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Next: The Camera Brain and Visualization. Camera Sensors in SLR Digital Cameras. The camera sensor is where the film used to be. Remember that room with the small hole in one wall discussed in Camera History. That would let the light in? Well, they figured out how to make a small box with a lens to focus the light onto a ground glass at the other end and would trace the image that was projected on the ground glass. That was an advance in technology! Sensors get grainy also at higher speed ISO's, but it i...

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Macro Lens Alternatives and Attachments (Macro-Photography.org)

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Next: Close Up Filters. Macro Lens Alternatives and Attachments. There are some cheap alternatives to using expensive macro lenses which are discussed here. They can also be used with macro lenses to increase the magnification of a macro lens. Getting professional quality macro photographs using your existing equipment for about $20 can be invigorating. You get do to something for cheap that you thought would cost you a lot of money! I remember using my first lens to lens stacking filter attachment.