Understanding the basics of photography can feel overwhelming, but with the right foundation, you'll be capturing stunning images in no time. This guide will walk you through key concepts to help you ...

Photography is an art form, but understanding exposure is part science and part math. Lucky for us, the camera does the calculations: As photographers, we just need to understand the images we’re ...

Just starting out in photography and want to learn the basics of shooting in full manual mode? Photographer Josh Collins made this helpful basic 11.5-minute tutorial that discusses the three corners ...

Every camera you have ever used, from a disposable Kodak to a $6,000 mirrorless body, does exactly one thing: it controls how much light hits a sensor. That is it. Everything else, the tracking ...

When compared to the other components of the exposure triangle (shutter speed and aperture), ISO appears to be the most intuitive on the surface. It is also the most misunderstood component, and ...

Break away from your camera’s auto mode and learn the basics of manual camera settings to get total control of your photos. So, you’ve decided to move on from your smartphone camera and get a DSLR or ...

Hopefully our guides to ISO, aperture and shutter speed have made those photographic terms a little less daunting than they once were. If you now feel like you understand those concepts and are ...

Still figuring out how shutter speed works or what it means to shoot in stops? This photography cheat sheet will help! If you’ve decided to give shooting in manual mode a try, one of the things you ...

Compared to ISO and aperture, shutter speed is a relatively straightforward concept to understand. It's the period of time that a camera's sensor (or film) is exposed to light after you hit the ...

Ever see a photograph with a dreamy, out-of-focus background? Or perhaps a landscape with pin-sharp details from the closest foreground elements all the way to distant clouds? Aperture is what allows ...

I'm trying to get better with my Olympus Evolt E-520 DSLR. Generally I use it in Aperture mode. Usually at 3.5A and -1 exposure sensitivity. A few settings do mystify me. 1. Image stabilization can be ...

Photography is much more than pointing a camera and pressing a button. This is something you realize soon after getting your hands on a serious shooter. Maybe you stumbled upon your smartphone’s ...