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Photography Handbook

The document provides an overview of basic photography concepts and camera parts. It discusses composition and the rule of thirds. It then describes the basic parts of a compact camera and smartphone camera. These include the shutter release, power button, zoom, menu, picture review, delete button, memory card slot, USB port, lens, flash, and display. It concludes with explanations of how to use the shutter release, zoom, menu, picture review, and delete functions.

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Photography Handbook

The document provides an overview of basic photography concepts and camera parts. It discusses composition and the rule of thirds. It then describes the basic parts of a compact camera and smartphone camera. These include the shutter release, power button, zoom, menu, picture review, delete button, memory card slot, USB port, lens, flash, and display. It concludes with explanations of how to use the shutter release, zoom, menu, picture review, and delete functions.

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THE

PHOTOGRAPHER
HANDBOOK
Composition The Camera, basic parts
Composition, where the subject is located and how other
components of the picture are arranged, although not Compact camera (generic, different cameras
necessary to take good pictures, helps improving the result, have different parts)
giving a sense of harmony. There are several different ways
of composing a picture, the easiest is the rule of thirds.

The idea is to locate


the subject in one of
the meeting points of a
grid like the one used
in the game tic-tac-toe.

1. Shutter release 2. Power 3. Zoom 4. Menu 5. Picture


review 6. Delete 7. Cursor pad 8. Memory card slot 9. USB
port 10. Display 11. Lens 12. Flash 13. Battery hold

Smartphone (Samsung) camera

1. Shutter release 2. Gallery 3. Record video 4. Settings


5.Flash settings 6. Full screen mode 7. Switch camera 8.
Display
Basic operation Delete: Delete the selected picture, useful if you took a
picture you don’t like or if you need to free up some space.
Shutter release: push to take a picture.
Cursor pad: Useful to navigate through pictures in preview
Power: switch to on to turn on the camera, to off to turn it off. mode or through the menu.
Zoom: T (stands for Tele) to “zoom in”, W (stands for Wide) Memory card slot: Here you can insert a memory card, all the
to “zoom out”. Usually with the phone camera you zoom-in photos will be stored inside the card, which you can then use
by sliding the shutter release upward and out by sliding it to move the pictures to a computer.
downward. You can think of zooming in as “getting closer”
to the scene. Below (a) is the original scene, (b) is the scene USB port: You can use this to connect your camera directly
after zooming in. to a computer

Lens: Arguably the fundamental part of a camera, a lens


“guides” the light from the scene to the camera itself.
Without a lens pictures would be dark, blurred and out of
focus
Menu: Change camera settings. Cameras have very different
menu, you can select for example whether you want your Flash: Useful to light up a dark scene. Use the camera flash
picture to be black and white or with “normal” colours. You only if necessary and only if the subject of the photography
can navigate the menu using the cursor (or your finger with is close to you, the light from the flash is very bright but it
the smartphone). gets darker with increasing distance.

Picture review: To have a look at the picture you previously


shoot. Use the cursor to navigate (or slide with your finger)

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