Camera Class over the Weekend

     Yesterday, my mom and I went into Boston to attend a DSLR camera class. My mom really likes to take photos of things, and I went as extra memory to remember what the teacher said. The class started at 9:00 am and went until noon. We learned about the "exposure triangle", the three settings on cameras that can help you take good photos. These are the aperture, the ISO, and the shutter speed. Aperture is how much light the camera is letting in to the lens. This changes how much of the image is in focus, or the depth of field. The ISO is how sensitive the camera's light sensor is. This can help get good shots in low light, but the higher the ISO the greater the noise/fuzz in the image's background. The shutter speed, the final piece, is how fast the camera waits for light. A shorter shutter speed can get capture frozen action, while a longer one can get blurred motion shots. Also, the higher the shutter speed the darker the picture will be. I learned in this class that these three factors, when used in the right way, can produce exactly the picture that the photographer wants.