Bryan Farley Photography Educator

Snowy Days at Shaver Lake

Do you believe digital photography is easier than film photography? What makes digital easier?

Digital cameras store information that many photographers would write in a notebook or on the back of printed photos. The shutter speed, f-stop, and ISO information is stored automatically. The above photo is mostly about shutter speed. After taking photographs for twenty years, I already know that the shutter speed was at least 1/250, but there are many times when I learn something from the exposure information. I also save time, because I do not need to record the data.

Depth of field and shutter speed are the same with digital photography as film photography. This photo is all depth of field. I focused on the small icicle with an f-stop about 1.2.

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With digital cameras, photographers have access to an exposure graph called a histogram. Usually, when I am looking at the back of my camera, I am looking at the histogram. The first photo of this gallery is a good example where the histogram helped.

Currently, I am reviewing a new text book by Henry Horenstein called “Digital Photography A Basic Manual.” I have read many text books about digital photography, and so far, this is my favorite, especially on the topics of exposure.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 25th, 2012 at 11:00 pm. It is filed under Travel and tagged with Shaver Lake, Snow. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.