Practice Guide to Learn to Use your Digital Camera from Scratch

You will start knowing Antonio, who will tell you about his experience as a photographer and teacher. It will also show you some of the artists that inspire you and encourage you to continue taking photographs.

You will study in a summarized and didactic way the most important parts of a camera: sensor, lens, diaphragm, trigger and shutter. Antonio will introduce you to the concept of the exhibition.

You will make a tour of the different types of cameras on the market, showing the differences between each of them. Then you will learn about the shooting modes: automatic, scene modes, semi-automatic and manual mode.

You will continue browsing the menu of your camera, studying the different shooting modes, size and format, white balance, etc.

You will study about the types of approaches you can apply to your photos and how you can control the exposure.

Then, it will be time to take pictures. You will start by taking a group photo with a series of figures in a row, which will help you understand the concepts of depth of field, focus and exposure.

You will learn how to make timed shots by making yourself a self-portrait, which Antonio will use to help you better understand the focus, the black and white settings and the high and low keys of your photographs.

You will use the macro mode of your camera with an action figure to illustrate the concept of macro shooting. In addition, you will see how you can achieve satisfactory results with a compact camera.

Antonio will incorporate warm tones and moving dolls in his photos, to explain about freezing, bursts and personalized white balance.

Finally, you will see the different objectives of a camera through a scene with action figures facing each other, which will help you understand how an angular lens works, a telephoto lens, its perspectives and depths of field.