Task 1 – components of a digital
camera and equipment
Camera
Manual mode
Shooting in manual mode is one of the many things you need to
learn to be able to master a DSLR camera. Manuel mode is the setting where you
control everything, for example if there’s a lot of light and dark things in
one picture, for example while you’re on a plane.
In this picture we can see
there are no effects it’s just handling the light and dark well and making it a
well coloured shot. The contrasts are balanced.
This is where the manual
mode button is on a DSLR camera if you don’t know.
Automatic mode
This is a
mode where it decides what it needs to do to make the picture as perfect as it
can be, it determines the shutter speed, white balance and ISO.
An Example
This
is a picture of a
Smartphone taking a
Picture in automatic
Mode.
Capturing
images
Viewfinder – this is a little place to look
through for a better picture, if you hold it up to your eye and take the snap,
what you saw in your eye is exactly how the picture comes out. 
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Most people that use this regularly for taking pictures like
their pictures to be perfectly focused.
Lens – This uses light to make the picture mainly focused
on the retina. The lens is transparent, some different types of lenses are
Fish eye lens
Ultra wide-angle lens
Wide angle lens
Standard lens
Short telephoto lens
Long telephoto lens
Image sensor - 
This determines how the
picture comes out, it detects everything going on around in the field of
whatever picture your taking.
Aperture (f-stops)
An aperture is combined with shutter speeds, the smaller the
diameter of the aperture the more focused the whole picture is, whereas if the
diameter is wider the more focused the camera will be on whatever you choose.
An example of what I’m trying to say is in the picture above this text.
Shutter
On all cameras there’s a shutter release button, this is just
the main button on the camera, once pressed a picture will be taken
Memory (Memory card,
internal storage)
This is a little sim card, where you can save all the images
or videos you take. Memory cards don’t require power and can be used in mobile
phones
Lighting
Flash – flash is when a sharp beam of bright light which
comes out of your picture taking device to show a picture as well as it would
be in the daytime.
Exposure
Over exposure is when there is too much light in the picture
making the picture too pale or washed out. Under exposure is where too little
light is caught and it makes the picture look dark/not clear.
Colour
Colour temperature is where light is given off from an object
in the background of the picture, so for example the flame from a candle is
going to be the hottest temperature in the picture. Warm and cold colours all
depend on where the pictures being taken, what time it’s being taken at and the
lighting being used.
White
Balance
This is where unrealistic colours are removed from the
picture, white balance is usually neutral during the day time.
Lights
Tungsten – these lights are regularly used in the
studio for good lighting in the studio, Most of our lighting at home is in fact
tungsten
Fluorescent – this is another word for a very
colourful/brightly coloured light.
Natural – This is just Mother Nature’s light, such as
the sun or reflections etc.
Artificial light – these kind of lights are used to
create effect, this lighting can also be called illumination, this involves
things such as lamps etc.
Support
Hand held – this is where a film or clip is shown from
a first person perspective, for example in the movie chronicle; the whole movie
is filmed by someone holding the camera.
Tripod – A three legged stand to support the camera
for when you want the shot to be 100% still.
File storage
Type – raw photo files may not be recognisable to
cloud drive as photo file.
Type – jpeg is one of the most popular methods used
for digital images, this compresses the file. It’s an image format.
