When you're taking quality photos, it's important to know how your camera's settings will affect one another. This is a quick and simple explanation of aperture, one of the most important features on ...

Here's a look at what we'll be covering today: Shooting modes, or the different ways your camera can assist you in taking a photograph. Flash modes and when to use them. What different image ...

Welcome to another edition of Let’s Talk Photography! Previously, I mentioned the exposure triangle and the three functions of the camera that make up that triangle; Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO.

If you want to get creative with your photography, and out of that all-too-tempting automatic mode, you'll need to get your head around a few key settings. We've already looked at ISO, and now it's ...

This aperture diagram shows the relationship between the f-stops, designated by numbers 2, 2.8, 4, etc., and the size of the corresponding aperture. In any sequence of f-stops, you are either doubling ...

Lens aperture is increasingly up there with megapixels when it comes to the camera specifications that smartphone makers like to boast about, but what exactly do those numbers mean? Here we look at ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac A few days ago, we learned about the iPhone’s shutter, the part of the camera that “opens and closes” to let light onto the sensor. Today, we’re taking an in-depth ...

For this series on camera modes, we picked six common shooting scenarios, some of which require tricky manual adjustments to capture the ideal shot, and took pictures in each scenario: one using the ...