This post has been sitting in my drafts for awhile now. I wanted it to brew into something more user friendly and clear, but the fermenting process didnt want to cooperate, so I stopped it

I hope its useful to somebody. At least one of you.

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See, I pulled the big guns for you – an old kiddie chair, some left over half cut up paper and sticky tape! The Japanese doll was the only lovely thing involved, but I thought since you will be seeing it for awhile, I would be nice and make it pleasant.

You wanted tips, I give you big blabs. Really, before one can give tips, one must know at least the basics of taking a correctly exposed image and what that entails.

Exposure

Photography is about light. It started with the simple exposure of a specially coated, light sensitive, paper to light. It grew, it evolved and changed. Film is mostly left for the hard core purists, but its still about exposure, only now we are doing it to light sensitive chips.

The starting point is a jet black canvas. When its exposed to light it starts to get lighter – the brighter the light  or longer the time of exposure, the lighter it gets, eventually becoming white.

Look at the set up above, there is a certain amount of light that the chip/film needs to be exposed to, in order to make a ‘correct’ exposure – good looking image. Too little and the image will be too dark. Too much and it will be too light. The camera has three ways to control the amount of light coming in – shutter speed, aperture and ISO speed.

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