Essential Photography: Learn the Craft, Fast

Do you know which Shutter Speed to choose to freeze Action in different Scenarios? I tell you with what settings you can avoid motion blur when taking pictures of your kids, or in sports photography, wildlife photography and even how to avoid camera shake in landscape and still-life shots.

Understanding photography, you only need very few camera modes to bring your photography to the highest level.
Aperture priority and shutter priority give you everything all the other camera modes (like portrait mode, macro mode, sports mode,...) can do, with much more control over the look of your images. Now that you understand the effects of Aperture and Shutter Speed, you can take control over your images.

Understanding ISO will finally make you master the brightness of your images.
There are many misconceptions in regard to ISO in the web. So what does ISO do? It does not make your camera more sensitive to light. What ISO does is amplify the incoming light similar to what you would do with your photos in your editing software.

Your images aren´t perfect if you don´t nail focus. You sure have seen out of focus images of your friends and relatives and found them annoying. Learn how to change your focus point and what to focus on to make your pictures better.

Getting images in focus is probably the most important thing in photography. This photography lesson will help you nail the focus with every shot, telling you what focus spot to use, what the difference between focus sensors are and how face detection and eye detection will improve your photography.

What about your focus techniques. Have you tried focus tracking or back button focusing yet? In this video, you will learn about the pros and cons of back button focusing as well as focus recompose.

A photography misconception I often hear or read is people thinking that choosing multiple focus points will enable their camera to focus on multiple parts of an image.
Unfortunately that is not the case and your camera can only focus on one focus point.
This video is part one of a series of videos to clarify some misconceptions I read in forums and Facebook groups.

Manual Exposure is the holy grail in photography. For many photographers it is intimidating, but this video will just show you how easy to understand manual exposure really is.
Learn when and why to set aperture, shutter speed, and ISO and understand what they do to the brightness of your image.

There is a misconception in photography saying that a smaller aperture automatically creates sharper images. This image will prove that this is not true.
While a bigger f-number (smaller aperture) does increase sharpness to a certain point, when you pass that point, the image sharpness will decrease. Keep that in mind when taking your pictures.
I encourage you to take test shots yourself because every lens has a different aperture that will create the sharpest image. Usually, that is around f8-f11, but it can be different with your particular lens. So make sure to know your equipment and do some test to get the best possible photograph.

Have you ever wondered how the focal length of your lens influences your images?
I often get asked: what lens shall I buy? And the first thing I try to figure out is what focal length people would need. More often than not, beginners have no idea how the focal length of a lens changes the look of an image.
This chapter is meant to help you decide which lens you want to purchase. And after the first video, you should already have a good idea about what focal length you want to get.

What lens shall I buy? is one of the most popular questions in social media groups and forums. In this video, we are going to compare the bokeh or better said the background blur of different lenses to help you decide on what lens fits your needs best and would be your best buying decision.
Find out which focal length has the most background blur in portraits or in general which is the best lens for portraits. Looking at our comparison, you can also see for yourself which is the best aperture for portrait photography. You can compare the bokeh each focal length and aperture creates.