1. Digital single-lens reflex camera DSLR Camera The Basics

2. Features and functions of a DSLR Camera Mode Dial Shutter Release Button Hot shoe Lens Release Button ISO Setting ? ?

3. Other features F - Stop Shots left Image Viewer Bin SD Card ? View Finder Shutter Speed Battery (Charge Left) Current Setting is Program Shift Display Menu ? ? ?

4. Mode Dial Auto Mode or Aperture Priority Manual Mode Shutter Priority - Use this if you want to select the shutter speed yourself. Landscape Mode Portrait Mode Close – Up Mode Sports Mode Night Portrait Mode Full Auto Mode Program AE Mode or Program Shift ? ?

5. The Lens Auto Focus and Manual Focus Settings ? ?

7. ISO – This measures the sensitivity of the image sensor. The lower the number the less sensitive your camera is to light and the finer the grain. The higher ISO settings are generally used in darker situations to get faster shutter speeds (for example an indoor sports event when you want to freeze the action in lower light) The one on the left is taken at 100 ISO’s and the one of the right at 3200 ISO’s.

8. Shutter speed In photography, the shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time a camera’s shutter (also known as a shutter blind) is open. The total exposure is proportional to this exposure time, or duration of light reaching the film or image sensor. Slow Shutter Speed Without Tripod With Tripod

10. Fast Shutter Speed

11. This is called panning. When you focus on a moving object and lock onto it while pivoting on the spot. To get the cyclist crisp compared to the blurred background, it requires a fast shutter speed and fast controlled movement.

15. F-Stop and Aperture The smaller the F – Stop the larger the whole which means more light will be let in to the image sensor with in the camera.

17. A – Dep. Means Automatic Depth of field

19. Rule of Thirds - (Composition )

22. Tips for CLEAR SHAPRP SHOTS A very fast Shutter Speed A low F – Stop so that lots of light is let through the shutter blind and hits the image sensor.