Hi, today I will be writing about a NIKON Kids Club photography workshop that I attended. I will share all that I learnt and a couple of pictures taken by me too.
The summer vacations had begun and I flew to Zimbabwe on the first day of the vacation. I was there for nearly 2 weeks. The day I returned back to Dubai was the day of this prestigious workshop set up by the KHDA. I was proud to attend this workshop as I was one of the 18 kids across UAE who got selected to learn about all the professional photography skills.
I sure was tired at 6 in the morning when my plane touched upon Dubai soil, but I gathered my energy, changed and my father dropped me and my sister to the workshop directly from the airport. I was glad that I went for it. I experienced so much that I would have missed out on but, I was there.
It all started off with us receiving cameras to test out settings of the manual mode in cameras. Our teacher taught us all about professional photography. We learnt about composition, aperture and much more which I will be sharing with you today. I was left amazed to know that all this had such an important role in just clicking one picture.
Now moving on with what all that I learnt:
1. Aperture:
Aperture is basically the opening of lenses in the camera. The higher the aperture, the wider the lenses open allowing more light to pass through. Increasing the aperture allows you to capture a moving object blurred. This helps in showing the movement in pictures. If you lower your aperture, then you will click more sharp pictures. For example, in a moving scene, you will click only one frame. Also, with a lower aperture, the camera focuses on one thing and the background is blurred.
2. ISO:
ISO does one very important job. ISO measures the sensitivity of the camera's image sensor. This affects the brightness in your picture. You would want to increase your ISO in the night time or inside a dim room as that would increase the sensitivity of the sensor towards and light and try to take in more light in the picture increasing its brightness. The higher you make your ISO, the camera becomes more sensitive towards light and therefore makes the picture brighter, that's why in the day time keep your ISO low as there is already enough lighting by the sun.
3. Shutter Speed:
In photography, shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time when the sensor inside the camera is exposed to light. It is the duration of time that the shutter takes to close after it opens up to take a picture. If you keep your shutter speed for a longer period of time, then your picture will be brighter than when you keep it in a lesser period of time. This is because the amount of light that passes through your lens. With a higher shutter speed, more light passes and with a lower one lesser light passes causing the brightness to vary.
To conclude, in photography the major trait is to perfect your settings to the way you like to take your pictures, but keep in mind light. It is the one thing that affects your pictures. The human eye is the best camera. If your picture on the camera looks exactly like you see it with your own eyes, then it's an amazing photo.
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