Understand Photography

Aperture is controlled by your lens, not your camera. Most “kit” lenses that come with your DSLR camera only open up to an aperture of 3.5 or 5.6mm. Both Canon and Nikon make an inexpensive 50 mm 1.8 lens. What ...

by Peggy Farren Understanding exposure is the first thing a photographer must learn. Fortunately, the meter that is built into our cameras makes it so easy to learn. First of all, there are three basic components to controlling your exposure: ...

Lens filters were an important part of my equipment when I used film cameras. When shooting weddings and portraits I would have an entire bag full of Cokin filters, indispensable for obtaining the variety of photo effects in vogue at ...

“Four Weeks to Proficiency”. These are our four basic classes, given weekly. We will cover all the important basics of photography in four short weeks. Of course, this is not all there is to learn, but your photography will ...

Here is Southwest Florida, we are blessed with the beach and a beautiful sunset almost every evening! One of our most popular workshops is our Flash basics class. We talk about balancing our camera settings with our flash settings, teach ...

We’ve had the Understand Photography Training Center for over three years now so we have seen a lot of different photographers at every level of experience come through our doors. Here is an observation about some of the photographers who ...