Raspos and Torri Tortoise  Image source One Friday afternoon after a week’s hard work, making sure all the flowers in Garden valley are painted beautifully and no leaves are lying around, Raspos and Melba

Raspos and his friends Getting into trouble - Part 1 -Raspos and his friends- Fiction Image source Deep in the garden is where the bush babies lived.  Their leader was sitting in a big tree on a branch.

Raspos and his friends

A surprise birthday party for Raspos Melba, the rat and Raspos’ best friend was sitting under a tree, sleeping.  Raspos was high up in a tree, busy painting the leaves green as the season was changing

Raspos and the evil gnomes When they finally woke up, Raspos felt a massive bump on his head.  He could only hear voices all around him but did not see anybody around him, as it was too dark.

Raspos and the evil gnomes Image source “ Phew…but I am very tired now” said Raspos.   He and Melba, his best friend, a rat, are on their way home from a hard days’ work. “I am going just going to

Game ranger Williams stops dead in his tracks, so quickly that the two men behind him almost bumped into him.  He looks around and signals to the two men to be very careful and quiet. Image source

Exposure compensation  Image source An easier way to correct the lighting of the camera is by using the exposure compensation setting. This is the +/- button on the camera. Photos that are underexposed

Aperture and depth of field:  Image source The aperture also influences the depth of field.  Depth of field determines how much of your photo will be in focus.  We will discuss depth of field

What is f-stop/aperture?  Image source The lens opening (aperture) is a “ hole” in the lens- a diaphragm which is set bigger or smaller to control the amount of light falling on the sensor.  The aperture

Shutter speed: Image source The amount of light available to work with, can determine if the photo will be too light, too dark or just correct.   There are 3 settings that can be set on the camera

The goal of the histogram  Image source You can recall any photo taken to show on the LCD screen of the camera.  By doing this you will also be able to see the histogram by pressing the info button

Advanced settings of the camera Colour settings Colour temperature and white balance  A picture of the sunset, look at the different colours in the sky. This photo was taken with my phone as I didn't have

Focus settings Image source Linking up to yesterday's lesson we are going to focus a bit more on focus settings of the camera.   Remember to refer to your manual if you use a different type of camera.

Focus settings: Focus points on a camera In the previous lessons we've discussed the size of the photo, shooting functions and the lighting meter.   In this lesson, we will discuss the method of

In this lesson we are going to discuss the metering on images: Image source Before taking a photo we have to decide on the following: Size of the photo (quality) RAW or JPEG    Shooting functions

Creative shooting functions of the digital camera  Image source Most digital cameras have the auto and semi auto shooting function, for example:  A-DEP:  Wide field of depth, everything is in

Basic photo settings  Image source With these basic shooting functions, the camera automatically sets the lens opening, shutter speed, ISO speed etc. according to the image/object being taken, for example

Short description of the camera  Image source It is very important for you (the reader / photographer) to remember that there are a lot of differences between the different types of camera models.  For

Different types of cameras Image source The phone camera Phone cameras Advantages: Can easily be carried around Easy to use Most (or these days all) phones has a camera, which encourages people to take