The Basics of Photography

Series Summary

Photography is the art of capturing images with a camera. The earliest extant photograph, taken by Nicephore Niepce in 1826, took eight hours of exposure, prompting the photographer to search for a new process. Today photographers have many choices of techniques, among these being film photography and digital photography. Film photography captures the image on silver halide covered plastic called “film”, while digital photography saves the images as binary data onto a disk or card. Mastering the art of photography is a fun and challenging experience. Among many things, the beginning photographer has to learn how to focus the lens, control the aperture of the lens, and filter the light. If you would like to learn basic photography tips, learn for free from one of our experts online.

In this free online video series learn basic photography tips from expert photographer Joey Gunz. He will teach you about the differences between film photography and digital photography, how a telephoto lens and wide angle lens work, about knowing your subject in photography, how and why to be prepared to shoot at any time, how to have artistic control, how the shutter and aperture work on your camera. Learn also about the SLR camera and the DSLR camera, as well as, how to to use a tripod and choose a camera bag.

Video Transcript

"Greetings! I'm Joey Gunz and you can check me out on line at www.joeygunz.com, glamor photographer for extra ordinare. Anyway I am here today on Expert Village to bring to you some knowledge and information about photography. We are going to be presenting a 16 part series about getting started in photography. Let's say you had photography kind of like a fleeting interest or maybe you have taken a few snap shots here and there and you really want to get in a pursuing hobby maybe seriously as a hobby or maybe stepping up and doing it as a serious amateur and maybe entering some competitions or contest or maybe you just want to flip it up and go pro and get in a studio and work with subjects and private photography. Well during the next 16 parts of this series, we are going to talk about getting started and of course, the number 1 thing you have to get started in doing photography is to get a camera. Now I just happen to have a camera right here in my pocket and it just happens to be attached to my camera phone. So the first thing I am going to do in this series is to take a picture of the Internet. So look right there in your monitor, hold really still, that's it, hold still, all right, right there, I like that pose. Hold that, hold that. Gotcha! All right. Getting started in photography, righter here at Expert Village. I'm Joey Gunz. Check me out on line at www.joeygunz.com and we will see you for part 2."