Tip #5

Bulb mode?
What is it? Well if you have ever seen the photos of the sky and it looks like the stars are circling the sky. That is Bulb mode majority of the DSLR's have Bulb mode it can simply be found in your camera's "Manual" setting. Bulb mode is best used during night shoots with a tri-pod and a remote shutter release to avoid and eliminate all movement of the camera. Bulb mode lets you get creative with your exposures and lets you decide when the shutter time whether it 5 seconds or 5 hours and anything in between. Now go out there and get creative. Send me your photos and ill gladly post them.

Tip #3

Aperture.
Aperture can be tricky if you don't know whats going on. Don't worry if your shooting with a point and shoot, aperture is automatically set for ya. For all you DSLR users it can be set automatically as well by setting the camera to AUTO. But for the adventurous photographer who wants to venture outside of AUTO and Aperture priority mode ( a setting that picks the aperture automatically in conjunction with how you set the shutter). Aperture is discretionary depending on the shot if you want a deep field of focus use shutter settings anywhere from f/16 to f/22 this will give you almost full focus throughout the frame. Smaller aperture such as f/2.8 to f/5 wil give you shallow focus on the background and sharp focus on your main subject (such as the squirrel sample photo i shot in Yosemite). Aperture is tricky yet it allows you to take creative shots that can make your shots stand out.

WELCOME

My name is Dalton and I am a avid amateur photographer I do it for fun and for a passion. I don't know what it is but photography overwhelms my senses. I love the feeling of the perfect shot even tho there is no true "perfect shot" if you know what i mean. I created this blog to help me take photography to a new level Im going to try my hardest to throw out some photo knoweledge to help you learn something new.