{"id":1,"date":"2012-02-07T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T01:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-02-10T19:07:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T03:07:01","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Better Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything in photography has to be expensive.\u00a0 And the\u00a0reverse is true &#8211; even the best equipment won&#8217;t give you excellent photos.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t succumb to the idea: &#8220;I&#8217;ll fix it in Photoshop&#8221;.\u00a0 Capture the best image &#8211; bring it into Photoshop when you&#8217;re ready to enhance the photo, or correct a blemish.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about lighting.\u00a0 The camera sees the light you allow.\u00a0 If your camera has manual settings you can begin grabbing great shots in a variety of lighting situations.\u00a0 There are 3 main areas to learn &#8211; ISO, aperture and shutter speed.<\/p>\n<p>To begin &#8211; play with the ISO.\u00a0 Set your camera still.\u00a0 If you have a tripod great &#8211; if you have a timer or trigger even better.\u00a0 Despite how still your hand is even pushing the button will jiggle the camera.\u00a0 Remove that element.\u00a0 Begin setting your camera at a low ISO 100 (typically for outdoors).\u00a0 Take a shot &#8211; increase to the next available ISO and continue your testing.\u00a0 This exercise will open up to you how your camera is processing at these ISOs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple beginning, with you controlling the camera!\u00a0 Have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything in photography has to be expensive.\u00a0 And the\u00a0reverse is true &#8211; even the best equipment won&#8217;t give you excellent photos. Don&#8217;t succumb to the idea: &#8220;I&#8217;ll fix it in Photoshop&#8221;.\u00a0 Capture the best image &#8211; bring it into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4,6],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-photography-tips-for-beginners","tag-point-and-shoot-tips","tag-take-better-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2cxVk-1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}