Digital Photography for Dummies

I've been doing a lot of reading to better understand the many settings available on my digital camera. My goal is to be able to take photos intuitively. The "perfect shot" can't wait for me to stop, think, read the manual, adjust settings, and shoot.

I ended up finding a website that was helpful in explaining the effects of different aperature settings.

Understanding Depth-of-Field and Aperature Settings

I also did some reading on shutter speed settings.

Tips of the day:

• Less light gets through to the imager (or film) as the shutter speed is increased, thus it's very difficult to use higher shutter speeds in lower light situations. There are ways to improve the speed of the shutter in these situations. One is to allow more light to pass through the lens (aperture setting), the other is to increase the ISO sensitivity of the imager.
• A slow shutter speed (less than 1/30th of a second) will cause anything in motion to appear blurred.