So you bought a new DSLR, now what?
Probably, you will recognise the feeling, you recently, after hours of reading reviews, bought a brand new DSLR camera, but after unpacking you find yourself overwhelmed by all buttons, switches, and features. Especially, when you are used to that good old point & shoot compact camera, a DSLR in the beginning might feel as if you dealing more with technology than with photography. In the beginning, you may therefore decide to stick to the safe automatic camera mode, but while benefitting from the great speed of a DSLR, the automatic mode comes up with automatic, thus mostly average photographs. Most of the strength of such a DSLR camera lies in the possibility to wield the great range of its technological features, to come up with original, non-average pictures. Therefore, knowledge about the inner workings of the camera will not only make it possible to focus on photography, it also gives you a set of tools that can be used creatively, only limited by your own imagination.
In the coming posts, therefore we will start exploring the features offered by most modern DSLRs. We will explore different subjects like shutterspeed, aperture, white balance, but in the beginning we will focus on comparing a range of automatic modes (P, Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sport, Night Portrait, etc.) with the full automatic mode. After that, we will consider the automatic modes available, mostly, Tv, Av, and fully manual. These tutorials will all be created by using a Canon EOS Digital series camera, but in general, we think the findings can also be applied to cameras of other brands. Anyway, stay tuned!