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What a beautiful sunset at the beach

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Patience and determination can help to solve problems.
Eg: Metal puzzles.

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Looks like fun! :)

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Road to te mountain

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A photo of my Grandmother’s hybiscus after returning from science centre.(rainy day
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A picture of my lightbulb

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This picture reminds me of the first time I saw snow in Japan

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My sister’s birthday cake! We celebrated my sister’s birthday over the weekend. I edited this picture using Snapseed.

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Trophies that I had won over the past 4 years

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Lego toys made when I was younger.

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Isaiah

This is where I had my cathecism class today.

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Such a cute little fellow. She warms my heart!

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A rose duck I took a picture of at Macritchie Park.

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Should spend sometime with my 19 year old cat

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This a picture of a bird perched on a tree in my neighbourhood. (I took this photo in my balcony)

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Daguerre’s process was used in what’s said to be the  world’s oldest camera , built by French firm Susse Freres. The camera, thought to have been made before 1839, was found in an attic in Germany. It  sold to an online bidder for $792,330 at a Vienna auction in 2007, which also makes it one of the world's most expensive cameras!

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The first device made to project an image on a surface was the camera obscura, or dark room in Latin. The principle was first recorded by Mozi, a Chinese philosopher, around 470 to 391 BCE.

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This photo describes how we have come a long way from a small settlement 700 years ago, in terms of building a garden city and also advancements in train, housing, and architecture systems.

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A common sight in Singapore that we take for granted.

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My father’s flower and I learnt that it's scientific name is Adenium orbesum, common name is Desert Rose.

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This is bishan park right outside my house

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A macaron tower- a sweet surprise from my papa to mummy on their 15th anniversary!

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This photo will always remind me of my  trip to Taiwan with my family, visiting the beautiful mountainous areas.(I tried...)

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I took this when I was doing volunteer work at the Chinese New Year Dinner celebration in Sree Narayana Mission Home for the Aged Sick in Yishun.This shows me to do my work seriously as the home prepares this for the workers to thank us for doing all this.

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Supporting your family member in a competition.

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1 Gigapixel=1,000,000,000 pixels

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reusable calendar(I used webcam)

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Garden gnome made by my aunt last Christmas. Apprieciated her hard work to make this for me.

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Chinese New Year reunion dinner.

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20 fun facts about photography!

1. The first person who managed to
make a "photographic" snapshot constant, that is to fix the image was
Joseph Niepce. The very first snapshot in the history of photography is
considered "view from the window," dated 1826. The exposure of the
shot lasted 8 Hours. That's the picture above.

5. The first color photograph was taken in 1861 by James Maxwell,
the British physicist.

6. Appearance of the first plates for color photography dated back
to 1904, produced by the company "Lumiere".

7. The first aerial photography was carried out by French inventor
Turnache in 1858. He shot Paris from the balloon.

8. The first in Russia were made by Y.F.
Fritzsche using the method of Talbot.

10. They began to retouch photos and make them "color",
which was achieved by coloring in watercolor for the first time in 1840.

11. In Russia, the first camera based on the theory of
Daguerreotype was invented by Grekov back in 1840, that is, a year after the
invention of photography. Alex Grekov also made experiments with photographs by
the method of Talbot on the light-sensitive paper.

12. The first portrait by the electric light was made in 1879 by
Levitsky, which required the exposure of 15 seconds.

14. The basis of a digital camera was invented in 1973. It was a
charge-coupled device, with which it was possible to obtain an image size of
100×100 pixels. The first astronomical electronic photo was taken with the help
of this device the following year.

15. The story of a digital photo begins with camera Mavica,
produced by the company Sony in 1981. Mavica is almost a full SLR with
interchangeable lenses and resolution of 570h490 pixels. But then it was
considered a "static camera," the result of which was not the video
but static images - shots.

16. Officially the world's first digital camera is the development
of the company Kodak, Stephen CESSON. The invented camera recorded an image on
an audio cassette tape. Time of recording images from the moment you press the
button was 22 seconds.

17. The term "megapixel" was first used in 1984.

19. According to statistics, at present, only 2 of 10 images taken
with digital cameras are printed on paper.

20. The oldest camera was sold at the auction in Vienna in 2007,
setting all-time overall record and having become the most expensive camera
ever sold at auction. Rarity called "Daguerrotype Susses Freres" was
sold for nearly eight hundred thousand U.S. dollars. The starting price was 100
000 euros.

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1. The first person who managed to make a "photographic" snapshot constant, that is to fix the image was Joseph Niepce. The very first snapshot in the history of photography is considered "view from the window," dated 1826. The exposure of the shot lasted 8 Hours. That's the picture above.

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You can do photography with even the simplest of cameras, but the principles that I'd like to teach are for people who want to learn to use a DSLR camera, a micro four-thirds camera, or at least a camera that allows the photographer to adjust the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. For a full list of gear that we recommend, check out our selections on Adorama. Now that you have your camera, let's jump into learning exposure.

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The Basics of Photography - Introduction to Photography (Tutorials) - Art of Visuals

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You can do photography with even the simplest of cameras, but the principles that I'd like to teach are for people who want to learn to use a DSLR camera, a micro four-thirds camera, or at least a camera that allows the photographer to adjust the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO.

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A common sight en route to Everest Base Camp. It serves as a reminder for me to appreciate what I have here in Singapore.

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Hold your camera level that is one of the basic rules in photography. If your camera's viewfinder comes with horizontal lines or frame your shots if you are shooting a sunrise or sunset,use the horizon as a guide take note of that mrs lee!

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Cameras are complicated. I was frustrated with my first DSLR. I couldn't capture what I saw through my viewfinder. It took a ton of trial and error to improve my photography.

When I managed to work it all out, I started taking some pretty spectacular images. This photography for beginners guide will share with you everything that I've learned from my mistakes.

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How Do Cameras Work?

As beginner photographers, we tend to be visual learners. And it's my job to make beginning photography as easy as possible for you.

So I thought to myself, "What better way to help beginner photographers learn how to use their cameras than by creating an infographic?" And that's exactly what I did.

I collaborated with an illustrator friend of mine, and together we made these images. The following are something that will make understanding exposure, and how cameras work, a whole lot easier!

Check out what we came up with below.

For those beginning photography, exposure is key to capturing a great image.

Learning how exposure works will help you to take control of your camera and take better photos. Shutter speed, aperture and ISO are the elements that combine to create an exposure.

As you'll soon learn, these elements have an effect on more than the exposure. They also cause alterations in depth of field, motion blur, and digital noise.

Once you understand how each one works, you can start diving into manual mode. This is where you take control back from your camera.

The exposure triangle is a great way to remember the three settings. When combined, they control the amount of light captured from any given scene.

This will help you to understand that changing one setting will need a change in the others. That is if you are photographing the same scene with the same exact lighting conditions.

Read here for all the information you need on the exposure triangle.

Exposure happens in three steps. We will start with the aperture. This is the hole inside the lens, through which the light passes.

It's similar to the pupil of your eye. The wider the aperture, the more light is allowed in and vice versa. Simple? Not quite.

As the aperture widens, the f/number gets lower and more light is allowed into the camera. This is great for low light. But be aware that it's going to make the depth of field very shallow. This is not ideal when taking landscapes photos.

So this is a short summary but I go into full detail about that in this post. The aperture is the preferred setting to set first, as it directly influences how much of your scene is in focus. But, if you are looking to create motion blur, then it is second to the shutter speed.

Exposure will be much easier if you can memorize the f/stop scale.

The scale is as follows: f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22.

Once the light has passed through the aperture of the lens, it reaches the shutter. Now you need to decide how much of that light you're going to allow into the camera.

Ordinarily, you only want a very small fraction of a second (for example 1/250) to prevent motion blur. However, different shutter speeds complement different situations.

Anything from really fast (1/4000) for sports photography to really slow (30 seconds) for night photography. It all depends on what you're shooting and how much light you have available to you.

Knowing how your shutter speed works is a key element in the basics of photography.

Once the light has passed through the aperture and been filtered by the shutter speed, it reaches the sensor. This is where we decide how to set the ISO.

As you turn the ISO number up, you increase the brightness. But, at the same time, the image quality decreases. There will be more digital noise or "grain".

So you have to decide upon your priorities in terms of exposure versus the grain.

For example, I would reduce the image quality if it meant that I could prevent motion blur in my photo. There's no possible way to fix that in post-production (yet, at least).

Once you've understood aperture, shutter speed and ISO, you need to learn how each of these elements of exposure work together.

For all those basics of photography, exposure is the most important.

If you don't have this down, composition and framing become a moot point in beginner photography.

In this post, you will learn about the 'stop' based system for measuring exposure. And you'll also learn how to prioritize the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO for the best photo.

Understanding Your Camera

Digital photography for beginners can be confusing. Exposure isn't as simple as learning about aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. You also have to learn about how your camera looks at light.

Metering modes are there to tell your camera how you want it to look at a scene.

The picture below was taken on spot metering mode. If you were to take the same photo using the evaluative mode, you would end up with a completely different exposure.

This is also covered in my free video training. If you're looking for an article that explains digital, including Canon, metering modes, here it is.

Understanding this basic photography point might be the key to understanding why your photos are coming out underexposed or overexposed.

The histogram shows you a mathematical review of exposure after the photo has been taken. It tells you how evenly exposed a photo is. New photographers often find it frightening to understand. But it is easy, and I tell you how.

LCD screens aren't very good at showing you this information through their display of the image. This is because they are affected by the ambient lighting conditions you're in and the brightness of the screen itself.

That's why the histogram is such a powerful tool to utilize in beginning photography correctly.

Full-Auto, Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Speed Priority or Manual Mode. How do you work out which one you should be using?

There's also a lot of misconceptions about which mode to use under which conditions.

When you understand what each mode does, the one that will be suitable for your situation becomes a lot clearer. This is also covered in my free video training.

When you're shooting in low light, you have to widen your aperture to allow enough light into the lens. But this has a major side effect. A shallow depth of field.

You can use this in a creative way. But it's not the only possibility. There are many situations, such as landscapes, where you'll want to use a narrower aperture. So that the whole scene remains in focus.

This tutorial walks you through everything you need to know about choosing the right aperture (and the DoF) for the right situation.

When it comes to covering all of the basics of photography, DoF is very important.

White balance is something I wish I'd learned more about much sooner than I did. I look back on some photos now and wonder what I was thinking.

The white balance changes the colour cast of the entire photo. It is responsible for the overall warmth. It can determine whether your photo appears blue or orange, cold or warm.

Auto white balance doesn't often do a good job. Especially with tungsten light. The sooner you learn about this basic photography idea, the more accurate your photos will look.

This is also covered in my free video training.

Have you ever wondered what the 'mm' on your lens means? Or why people use longer focal lengths for portraits?

It's all discussed in this post. The focal length affects more than the 'zoom'. It also influences the perspective.

I cover which focal length you would want to use in different situations. As well as their possible side effects.

It's a really worthy read and one of my favourite tutorials to date.

A lot of you may not realize but, unless you spend about $2000 on your camera, you're shooting on a crop sensor.

This means that your sensor is much smaller than professional SLR cameras. It is cropping your image. The crop factor has a range of effects on your photos.

It creates a narrower viewing angle and will influence your lens purchases in the future. For those beginner photographers, research what lenses will help your field of photography first.

Polarizing filters only allow light into the lens from a certain direction. This results in the removal of glare and reflections from non-metallic objects.

Water and glass are the most affected, as well as haze from the sky. Cutting out these reflections and anomalies will make for more natural saturated colours.

This looks fantastic and it cannot be replicated in post-production. That's why it's so important to understand.

Photography beginners, I will walk you through the 10 step process of taking sharp photos like a professional.

It covers everything from choosing the right aperture and shutter speed to shooting in RAW.

It's pretty easy to make only a few small mistakes which will result in less sharp images. That's why we cover all ten in order of importance.

What can I say about the nifty fifty? What's not to love?

For those of you who are beginner photographers, when I talk about the nifty fifty, I'm referring to the 50mm f/1.8 (or faster) prime lens. This can be picked up very cheap for most digital SLRs.

It's a great introduction to buying better quality lenses. And an excellent way of getting to grips with aperture.

The article linked is a review and guide. I wrote it because I recommend this lens as the first upgrade for every beginner photographer to make.

It's easy to use and, for the price, will yield some excellent results.

It's important to understand exposure. But, if you can't get to grips with basic composition, you'll struggle to take really good photos.

I'm not saying that you have to follow every compositional rule. But it helps to learn these rules so they can help guide you in taking better photos.

This is often the first compositional rule that any beginner photographer comes across. And that's for an excellent reason: it's simple, and it works.

The basic premise is that you divide your camera's frame into thirds. By planting key objects on these lines, the composition of the image works better.

This is a tool that always works. But it is easy to overuse it. If you've not learned much about photography yet, it's a great way of improving your photos.

It will help to make them more exciting.

Visual weight differs in size or weight as we know it. It's all about what we're drawn to when we look at a photo.

When you understand visual weight, you'll start to understand how people look at photos. And how you can position certain elements in a frame to direct the viewer's attention to where you want them to look.

It's not so much a tool or a rule, but an understanding.

Shapes are essential in photography. Triangles are in almost everything we see in one way or another. It's only a case of distinguishing and knowing what to do with them.

Triangles make great compositional tools. They're easy to make and manipulate and are quite common. These are a great way to use the simplest and most basic photography compositions.

They are also perfect for combining different compositional techniques. These include lines and paths to create a more interesting part of a photograph.

You can even use them to make a photo feel more stable or unstable.

If you take photos of people, you're taking photos with eye lines. It's important to understand the effect that eye lines have on how we view a photo.

Eye-lines are the direction your subject's eyes are pointed in. The negative space in front of the subject's face is known as ' lead room '.

These have the ability to focus our attention on a particular part of the photo. They also produce tension and other photographic elements.

Although they're not physical lines, they can be used as such to produce different elements. These will help make triangles and vertical lines.

Balance in a photo affects how we feel when we look at it. An unbalanced photo can make us feel uneasy. A balanced photo will make us feel more relaxed.

It doesn't matter whether you choose to make the photo balanced or unbalanced. But you should understand why you've chosen one or the other.

Both affect your photos in different ways.

Again, it's one of those situations where the more you know, the easier it will be to produce the desired effect.

Conclusion

So that's a brief introduction to digital photography for beginners.

Of course, there are tons more you can learn about photography. I would encourage you to go and explore for yourself in my tutorial archive.
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Have you ever wondered what photography was like one hundred or even more years ago? Do you think that it was always as easy as it is today to take a photo and share it with people? If you said yes, then these facts about photography are going to blow your mind!

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These are the parts of a camera: Optical viewfinder, Mode dial, Control button, Indicator LED'S, Power button, Shutter release, Zoom button, File-save LED, LCD panel, Display control, Picture review button, Print/e-mail photo button, Cursor pad, Set/execute button, USB port, Memory card slot.

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There are different way to take a photo , a horizontal and vertical way

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A camera came out eariler than a phone

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Everyone takes photos

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A memory card stores photos in a digital camera

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The optical viewfinder helps you frame and compose your picture

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There are twelve parts in a camera

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Think like a director and compose your photos in interesting ways,allow your photos to tell a story

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Use a plain background and focus on the object or person

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Macro mode mode is very useful for taking close up shots of objects like flowers or insects. Choose the macro mode before you take close ups, focus the camera and then shoot. You should be able to take a photo with a sharp image.

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Focus function can adjust a camera lens so the subject looks clear and sharp.

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Read the instructions before you use the camera

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Use a plain background so that the focus is just on your subject

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In order to use a flash you need to take a few shots with the flash then compare it with the one with no flash