DSLR Camera GuideBy Joe, Ryan and Aaron

DSLR

•Stands for - Digital Single Lens Reflex

•Has a 55mm lens

•Has different modes to shoot different photos with

DSLR Layout

What a DSLR looks like.

The keypad of a DSLR.

Shutter Speed Shutter speed is how long the sensor in your camera is exposed to light. It’s measured in seconds and more commonly as a fraction of a second. It is the time of that it takes to take the shot of the moving object. The more time the doors are open are on the camera the more light would be let into the camera as this the higher the aperture as there would be more of the picture. less the door are open then the less light would be let into the camera as this the picture would be more blurry and less focussed.

How shutter speed works.

Examples

Fast Shutter Speed

Slow Shutter Speed

White BalanceWhite balance is used to adjust colors to match

the color of light source so that white objects

appear white. Subjects may be lit by a number of

different light sources, including sunlight,

incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lighting.

although naked to the eye all these different

light sources may appear colorless. Auto-white balance automatically processes the image to remove unwanted color casts by, for example, making photographs

taken under incandescent bulbs more more blue to correct the reddish cast of this type of lighting.

Aperture

Aperture is the size of the gap in the lens when a shutter snaps shut. The set aperture affects the lens size.The bigger the lens, the more light that is let

through. Aperture is measured in f-stops. For example f/2.8, f/4,f/5.6,f/8,f/22 this determines the amount of light that is gettingthrough when taking the picture. Aperture has a big impact upon depth of field. Large aperture(remember it’s a smaller number) will decrease depth of

field while small aperture (larger numbers) will give you larger depthof field.

ExposureExposure is where the lighting of the image changes due to the

setting or actual light. For example - you can over expose an image by shooting it

towards the sun. The affect ‘HDR’ can be gained by changing the exposure of the image this can be done by using software such as photoshop.

Here is an example of how an image can be changed through

the adjustment of the exposure. Notice how over exposure is considerably brighter than the under

exposed side. The colors are washed out. Which is why when you change the exposure of the image you should also change the contrast in comparison to

the exposure.