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i believe, its my tutor on everything. look forward to seeing your 30 day challenge every day for the next 29 days.

did you use the manual settings? you are doing a great job!

Could I call it decision stress in someway? There is so much to do so it requires a lot of PoW to say no to so many things...

This currently a hard challenge on my side with Nostr.....

Tomorrow is now today. Have we heard the results yet?

Assange always makes me think about the fact lies are so much easier than truths.

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* Understand the different genres

* Get to know your camera:

- Auto or Manuel (more control of your photos)

- Shutter priority

- Aperture priority (AV or A)

* Take some time to understand the technical side:

- ISO (light)

- Aperture (depth)

- Focus (which determine the aperture)

- File format (RAW, JPEG)

- White balance

* Spend some time to understand composition. Here are some advice that I’ve been given:

- Use the rule of thirds

- Look for leading lines

- Look for symmetry

- Frame your subjects to help tell a story

- Use the golden ratio/golden spiral

* The most important thing is to GO OUT AND TAKE PHOTOS. There is no better way to learn. Photography is a process!

* If there is 1 book you should read it’s:

- Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll

I’m at no means any expert in photography but these are things that I’ve learnt throughout the years.

I hope this helps :)

Wonder how we could setup a nostr fund for Julian Assange?

don't know any poscasts, I search the specific thing I want to get better at on TikTok or youtube

Perfect, sounds good really, to know how to use a camera in manual mode is to really understand photography and the tools and variables that you have at your disposal to affect the final result of the photograph. Basically there are three values or variables that you have to learn, I'll try to give you a brief explanation and to make it similar to how our vision works through the human eye ;)

- Shutter speed: The cameras have a sensor if it is digital and a film if it is analogical, this is the support on which the light hits and leaves 'recorded' the image. The shutter speed controls the time that the sensor or film is exposed to light. Think of it as a curtain that opens for the time you set, normally the shutter speed is measured in seconds and fractions of a second, for example 1/1000 would mean that the sensor is exposed to light for a millisecond. If we compare it to a human eye this could be the speed at which we blink.

-Diaphragm aperture: In addition to the shutter, cameras have a diaphragm, which is a system that lets more or less light into the sensor, like the pupils of an eye that become small or large depending on the amount of light. It is measured with the number f/ and basically indicates how closed or open the aperture is, it works like this for example f/2.8 is an open aperture, and f/16 for example is a more closed aperture.

-ISO: this value indicates the sensitivity of the sensor or film in your camera, the higher the number the more sensitive to light the sensor or film is, also the more sensitive it is, the more noise you will have in the picture, for example iso100 is a low sensitive iso, suitable for scenes with a lot of light, for example a sunny day, and an iso1600 for example is much more sensitive and is more suitable for night or low light scenes.

Basically if you understand these three values and how they relate to each other, you understand photography and you can use the camera in manual to take pictures the way you want and find the result you want.

Lastly, there is an element in the camera called a light meter and it basically gives you a scale of whether the photo is well exposed, overexposed (very white or bright photo), or underexposed (very dark photo). This meter gives you the exposure reading based on the shutter speed, aperture and iso that you have set on your camera.

... I know I have given you a lot of info, but if you understand these concepts you can deal with any camera, digital, analog or whatever hahaha they are the basic principles of photography. On the internet there are many resources to learn, I can also recommend you books

Also, a couple of his friends like Matti Haapoja and Chris Hau they all have great tutorials.

Hahaha That depends, if you want to take photos in automatic or manual mode, automatic is easy but less creative, manual you can control all aspects of photography (Basically shutter speed, aperture, and iso) and achieve the result that you want. But if what you are looking for is to improve your ability to compose photography, that is another matter. In any case i can recommend books or answer questions, I was studying and working in photography for a few years 🤙

Everything I learned about photography I learned from Peter McKinnon’s YouTube page. Dig back in his archives GREAT STUFF.

Are you looking for something that tells you about the technological principles of photography? Something like, shutter speed, aperture, iso and so on, or a book on composition?