Photography tutorial episode 1

My blog post has been weird, i think i had 3 post with the exact some starting line, which is "you know" bla bla bla. "you know" bla bla and "you know" bla bla.

so today i'm gonna start off with, i know, haha, so, i know i like photography, i like taking pictures, people might ask......

"eh Chi Hou, very fun meh take picture? i also play with camera before shoot shoot abit lah
but then i don't find it fun also, what i hear use the big colour camera more pro one wor, what abcd ah? harh what?!? DSLR? ohh okok, so i also heard that people say what aperture priority what shutter speed, i catch no ball, meh lei geh?!"

so today i just roughly explain a lil, how does a camera works, and how do we use a DSLR properly, well frankly, in an SLR, *i just like to call it SLR lah got D no D same lah can lah* i don't really bother the other modes the camera offers*, as long as there are A,P and M, which is Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority or lastly, Manual.

This might be a little boring for those people who camwhores with thier camera
like THIS

instead of

this. *cy damn dak yee right hahaha"

so basically just talk about how pictures are being taken lah, sometimes we complaint, ma chee bye, why the picture so blur one, sometimes, EHH?? QUITE NICE HOR?? and for those people who uses a compact camera, i don't know if you are observant enough to realize that, shooting indoor/low lights, if you choose not to fire flash, your picture rarely gets sharp, usually they are being dragged and blurred. am i right or am i right? x) heeeeeeheeeee.

so, a camera lens, it has a RING, usually made out of 7 or 9 blades, we call it Aperture, this ring is adjustable to be bigger or smaller, meaning can adjust big big also can, adjust small small also can, adjust medium medium also can. We actually have a term for it, we call it "f stop" ya f stop, not stop f okay, or stopping f or effing stop.

we have shutter speed, i'll use an EasierAndMoreFunnyWay to explain this, we have a door in our camera, inside got alot of dogs, hush puppies, labrado, and golden retriver. they are cute, no lah, so you know, everytime you hear the CHEEEE CAAAKKKK sound in ur camera whenever you press on the shutter release *which is the button u press on to take picture damn it*, thats when your GATE, *we call it shutter*, open, then closed, so basically, when the shutter is opened, the image is being transfer to the sensor, and trasnfer all the way to ur memory card. This is called EXPOSURE, refering to how long is the SHUTTER opened for image capturing, when the shutter opens, it exposes, when it closes, it ends the exposure.

SO far so good? no understand? read again if your really interested, i tried really hard to make this interesting already, dogs inside camera, geng mou?

so yeah, now you know about Aperture and Shutter speed, ppl who camwhores, didn't know there's so many things in your camera hor? dogs also got, no lah, no dogs one la okay.

so lastly, i will explain about, how aperture and shutter speed works together in order to take a picture, same thing ill go with an EasierAndMoreFunnyWay to do my explanation.

so normally, for normal picture taking and snapping, we always want to have a faster shutter speed *meaning the shutter opens and closes faster*, the faster the shutter speed, the shorter it exposes, the shorter it exposes, chances of bluring picture will naturally go down as well.

so what's with all these exposure timing? why sometimes fast sometimes slow? cannot all the way fast one ah? SLR wor so expensive, nia seng bruff money one issit?

okay so about exposure timing is all depending on the lighting condition, how bright it is, and how dark it is, so in other words, the brighter the place is, the faster the shutter speed, the darker the place is the slower the shutter speed, do u understand why low lights gives u horribly blurred picture now? it is because exposure timing is long, during exposure, we are NOT allow to move the camera, no shaking, no dancing no popping and locking. just a slight movement of 1mm will cause blur to the picture. yes, tat serious motha faka :D

so now you know, fast shutter speed gives you sharp and clear picture, so good hor? now now about Aperture, as i said, it is an adjustable ring, big or small, it controls how much light is going into ur camera, so when you wide open ur Aperture, more lights goes into the camera, the faster the shutter speed it will be, the smaller the Aperture, the lesser light goes in, the slower the shutter speed is.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BASICALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big aperture = more lights = faster shutter speed.
Small aperture = lesser lights = slower shutter speed.

Advantages of fast shutter speed
-able to capture fast movements, able to freeze them in a picture
-sharp, clear, no blurness.
-sounds damn orgasmic, CHEE CHAKK!!!

Advantages of slow shutter speed
-for different effects
-depth of field will be deeper *dont ask now, nxt episode first*

So, this is all i will tell today, if you are really interested and you dont know fark the what i am talking here, come ask me :).

and i hope my tutorial helps! *wahhhhh i typed so much!!*