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Back to Basics: Welcome!

Note: “Back to Basics” is a series consisting of short posts that intend to go back to the basics of photography. Hopefully these articles will be of interest to you – whether you are just beginning in your photography journey, or are an established pro. (View all posts in this series…)

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Welcome to the first “Back to Basics” post! This series will cover the basics of photography from exposure to composition in short, bite-size articles. (Well, If anyone knows my penchant for being long-winded, the short part may or may not happen!)

The topics that this series aims to cover are as follows; the list is in no particular order, nor is every topic necessarily guaranteed, and I totally may add some other topics as time goes on.

  • Capturing the Image (the Sensor)
  • Capturing the Light (Exposure)
  • Squeezing the Light (the Aperture)
  • Letting the Light in (the Shutter)
  • Sensitivity to Light (ISO)
  • Measuring the Light (Metering Modes)
  • Positioning the Light (Composition)
  • Rendering the Light (Color and/or lack thereof)
  • Focusing the Light (Focus)
  • Changing Your Perspective (Focal Length, Zooms, Primes)
  • Bending Light Artistically (Bokeh, Depth-of-Field, etc.)
  • And more…

Oh, and just a “geek” moment: the image to the right is just a representation of the programming language I grew up on: Commodore BASIC. Ah, the fond memories of both that computer, and the language, and hence the image. (Back to Basics, get it?)

And with that, I’ll sign-off until the next post! Keep on writing with light!

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