Photography Lessons with my uncle

Natalia Muñiz Blasco
Feb 27, 2022
2 min read

Hi everyone!

Over the Christmas holidays I spent some time with my uncle, who loves photography. He taught me some camera basics which I had not had a look at before!

In this post, I have put together some pictures that I took experimenting with ISO, manual focus, aperture and shutter speed.

Hope you enjoy it!

xx Natalia

Key Definitions:

When watching photography videos on YouTube, words such as ISO, aperture and shutter speed had come up repeatedly and I did not really know what they meant, so here are some key definitions necessary for this:

ISO:

ISO is the camera's sensitivity to light; the higher its value, the more light it captures and the brighter your image will be. However, the lower your ISO is, the better quality your image will have (generally); that is because having a very high ISO value can also lead to having a noisy image.

Aperture:

The aperture of your camera settings refers to how open the lens's diaphragm is, through which light passes. The lower the 'f' value is- like f/2.8, the more open the diaphragm of the lens, which means that your image will also be brighter.

Aperture affects the depth of the background as well; the lower the 'f' value is, the more open the diaphragm of the lens is, and hence the blurrier the background will be too.

Depending on the type of image that you want to capture, you can use a smaller or bigger aperture.

Shutter Speed:

The Shutter Speed refers to the amount of time that the shutter is open to capture light. The more time it is open, the more light it will capture, and also the more motion it will capture, so with a smaller shutter speed (such as 1/1000), the image will be less likely to be blurry than with 1/2 shutter speed.

Aperture, ISO and shutter speed can be put together to get the best image possible- with a high quality, the right amount of exposure and the right amount of blurred background.