In this episode I’ll help beginning photographers
with my Where to Start Chart. Adorama TV presents
Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace.
Hi everybody. Welcome to another episode of Exploring Photography right here on
Adorama TV, brought to you by Adorama. It's the camera store that has
everything for the professional and amateur photographers, so check them out
at Adorama.com. Well I've made a few hundred videos for
Adorama TV and we've covered everything from studio lighting to on-camera flash
to
portrait photography, scenic photography, travel photography,
you name it. We've covered a lot of ground but I still get the same question
over and over and that is
I'm a new photographer, an intermediate photographer maybe but I really just
don't know where to start. What mode to
put my camera on and what aperture value or shutter speed to use.
I’m not too sure I understand ISO settings. Things like that. So where do I start?
Well that's what this episode is all about, in fact I've made in
interactive chart you can download for free called the where to start chart
and it helps you with all that stuff but before we get to the chart.
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Let's talk about the Where to Start Chart. It really again is for
beginning and intermediate photographers to learn the basics
of photography. Really the thing I like the most about the chart is
its interactive and so it begins by a little square that says ‘start’. You
start right there and
and it asks a basic question. What's most important? Is it
depth of field or is it showing or
freezing motion? If you don't know, well guess what?
You can just click right there where it says 'what's most important?' and it opens a video
and it explains all of that stuff to you. In fact the entire chart is like that.
Every single step you can click and there's a video
on Adorama TV that explains all of that stuff. So if you don't know what dept of
field is or maybe you don't know how to freeze motion
using a flash. You can just click the box and there
pops up a video and it helps you with all that stuff. So I've created sort of a
framework
to take all these videos that we've created over the last few years
and you can use this chart, it’s a totally interactive chart
and you can navigate your way through all of this stuff and I’ve have included a
bunch of advanced
tutorials and things that you can click on the chart as well. So where do you get
the chart? Well
you've got several places you can get this. You can go to the Adorama Learning
Center we have a link there that shows you how you can get this chart again
it's free.
You can download this. You can also click the link if your watching on YouTube theres a link
that shows you how to get to the chart there or
you can go to my website snap factory.com and at the top of the page
there's a link there 'where to start chart' click on that you can download the
chart and start using it right away.
The nice thing I will be updating this chart as improvements are made and
suggestions are made and new videos are made and I
thinking of things that I should have put on the chart but maybe didn't
and so make sure that you look at
the very very bottom left-hand side of the chart there is a date
that says when the chart was last updated. sSo you know if it's a few months old you
might wanna check back
to make sure you have the most current version. Now here some things I want you to
do with this. This video is a little bit different
obviously than other Exploring Photography videos I've done because
the learning is in your hands you use this chart to explore things
but the other thing I wanted to do is if you know all this stuff, I
want to download this chart and share it with other
photographers that you might know that need to learn some things or maybe you
have a photo club
or you're an instructor in a photo club and you just need a resource. This
resources for you
it's totally free I want you to download, it share it, link to it, put it on your
blog,
put it on your website, share it on Twitter or Facebook all those different places.
Let's take the knowledge
and share it that's really what this is all about. So that's it
it's the ‘Where to Start Chart' remember you can get it anywhere those three
places the Adorama Learning Center, the link that’s here
on YouTube or on my website snappfactory.com, just click the link ‘Where to
Start Chart' download it for free
and then use it. Well thank you so much for joining me
at this episode of Exploring Photography. Remember we've got tons of
videos, hundreds of videos at Adorama TV that teach you all about shooting stills
and in the studio and shooting video and its all absolutely free
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subscribe today it is free. Thank you so much for joining me I hope this is
helpful to you
and I will see you again in the next episode
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