The Exposure Triangle- What is it and what does it have to do with photography?
The 'exposure triangle' is a key for any photographer who is learning how to use the 'manual' option on a digital camera, It's all about the light! Using manual gives photographers flexibility and control over the variables of aperture, ISO, and shutter speed simultaneously.
ISO ISO is the governing body that controls the sensitivity standards for digital cameras. It stands for International Standards Organization. ISO controls the camera's sensitivity to light; e.g. a low ISO would create a dimmer picture than a high ISO, even with the same amount of light hitting the subject in both pictures.
Aperture Aperture is what affects how focused the background of your picture is. It controls how much light is let in for the picture. a small aperture creates a clear and focused background, and a wide aperture creates a blurry background.
Shutter Speed Shutter speed is the amount of time it takes to capture an image on a digital camera. Light painting is a technique where a long shutter speed is used to paint images using lights in a dim environment. A fast shutter speed can capture images in a split second, and can result in stunning images of a person suspended in the air, or water falling.
White Balance (additional) White balance is a digital camera's response to a picture where the ambient light is very warm or very cool. White balance changes the temperature of a picture to balance out the color of a photo,
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Richard Avedon was a photographer in the late 1940s and the 1950s. He was known for his stunning portrait work and his fashion photography. He was always pushing boundaries, stretching the horizon of what is considered socially acceptable.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer who showed mastery over street photography. His early photography from the 1930's helped prove that photography had the potential to be art. He had the uncanny ability to capture 'life on the run' resulted in his first major book, "The Decisive Moment". He was kept as a POW in World War II, and shortly after he had his first museum show. In decade after the war, Cartier-Bresson produced major volumes of photographic reportage on India and Indonesia's independence, China's revolution, and the post-Stalin Soviet Union. He also captured images of the U.S. during the postwar boom and a Europe struggling to retain it's old culture while being thrust into a modern reality. For more than 25 years, he was the keenest observer of the global 'theater' of human affairs, and one of the greatest portraitists of the 20th century.
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Rinko Kawauchi is a Japanese photographer famous for her poetic, gauzy style. She was born in 1972 in Shiga, Japan, but lives and works in Tokyo today. Especially famous for her Illuminance, Ametsuchi, and AILA series. She works mainly in a six by six format camera, capturing images that evoke thoughts of dreams, temporality, and the divine. Her subjects vary, though she rarely photographs humans, and you will find flowers and burning fields to dead deer on the side of the road. She once said that "..It's not enough that the photograph is beautiful, if it doesn't move my heart it won't move anyone else's heart." Unlike the street photographers I have studied in the past, Kawauchi displays reality through a serene filter, yet somehow capturing the essence of emotion in a simple frame.