When you're taking quality photos, it's important to know how your camera's settings will affect one another. This is a quick and simple explanation of aperture, one of the most important features on ...

This aperture diagram shows the relationship between the f-stops, designated by numbers 2, 2.8, 4, etc., and the size of the corresponding aperture. In any sequence of f-stops, you are either doubling ...

Here's a look at what we'll be covering today: Shooting modes, or the different ways your camera can assist you in taking a photograph. Flash modes and when to use them. What different image ...

If you want to get creative with your photography, and out of that all-too-tempting automatic mode, you'll need to get your head around a few key settings. We've already looked at ISO, and now it's ...

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For this series on camera modes, we picked six common shooting scenarios, some of which require tricky manual adjustments to capture the ideal shot, and took pictures in each scenario: one using the ...