I’m relatively new to photography and like many I try to pick up hints along the way. It’s never easy, at least for me, learning on your own. After all, while experimentation and practice are essential to learning any skill, it is comforting to be able to pick up a book or come across an article in a magazine or on-line that cuts through to the chase and actually explains, for example, what exposure is or how does depth-of-field actually work. Then when you go out into the field armed with your camera, your experiments become all that more enjoyable. You begin to understand, for instance, the effects of dialing up or down the shutter speed and why those changes do what they do.
Every Wednesday I will be posting a link to a site or article that I have found useful in understanding photography. I hope that these resources will provide others who are just starting out in photography with helpful information and advice and help them to be more comfortable the next time they pick up their camera.
DIYPhotography is a photography blog by Udi Tirosh that focuses primarily on creating low-cost alternatives to what can be quite expensive photographic lighting equipment. But DIYPhotography also contains a wealth of information on photographic techniques, whether you are setting up a home studio to creative lighting techniques, down to what for me at this stage in my development, the bare bones of photography. DIYPhotography’s Back to Basics series breaks down the the fundamentals of exposure into bite-size chunks, making what can be a tricky subject easier to understand.
