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  • Lenses: An Introduction

    Lenses: An Introduction

    Lesson #2 in Photography for Ignorant Geniuses Find earlier photography lessons here. Lenses At the very basic level, a lens is what controls and directs light onto the camera’s sensor. Lenses are usually named and defined by their focal length in millimeters. Focal length affects two major aspects of photography: magnification and composition (through field…

  • The Basics of Exposure

    Lesson #1 in Photography for Ignorant Geniuses Exposure is the one of the elemental theories of photography. Even though it is quite a complex subject, it is all perfectly logical. By the end of this first Photography for Ignorant Geniuses lesson you should be able to grasp the theory behind it. Let’s start by looking…