Photography - DSLR settings basic information

Shutterspeed:
When taking pictures by hand the shutterspeed should be at least 60 for sharp pictures
 With a faster shutterspeed the sensor is exposed to light for a shorter period of time, but it gives sharper  images.
 With a slow shutterspeed the sensor is exposed to light longer, but a tripod is needed for non blurrred pictures.
A very high shutterspeed can be around 4000's of a second of exposure and a low shutterspeed can be 8 seconds of exposure or more

Aperture:
 Determines how big the hole is of exposure to light and the sharpness.
 The higher the number the smaller the hole.
 A low number can be used for macro(close up) images, to blur the background.
 And a higher number will give a sharper image.

Iso
 The light sensitivity.
 The lower the iso the less noise.
 An iso of 100 gives very good images
 but sometimes 200 to 800 is needed because there isn't enough light and they can stil look good.
 And an iso higher then 3200 has high noise.

Whitebalance: colour tones.


By Jeffrey Koelewijn