From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)

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From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)

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- At this point, you should understand what shutter speed, aperture and ISO are. And just as importantly, you should understand the reciprocal relationship between them. You should be comfortable with the idea of balancing one of those parameters against another to control image brightness and shutter speed. When shooting, you should be developing the habit of always half-pressing the shutter button to meter and focus, and you are hopefully learning to keep track of your shutter speed as you shoot, so that you know when you're at risk of getting blurry shots due to handheld camera shake. After being shown that your eye and your camera see the world very differently in terms of dynamic range, you are possibly starting to understand that you can use shadows and highlights in different ways in your shooting. That's the beginning of seeing photographically. I've asked you to keep your camera in program mode, but along the way you've seen how you can use your program shift feature to cycle…

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