
Build confidence in digital photography by mastering lighting, ISO, white balance, and flash settings to balance foreground and background, with outdoor practice to see lighting clearly.
Learn how to prep your camera, meter light, and set ISO for low light. Practice flash exercises across daylight, dusk, and night while resetting settings to defaults.
Explore how ISO affects exposure, aperture, shutter speed, and noise within the exposure triangle, with hands-on tests from 100 to 1600 to avoid blur and grain.
Explore how white balance corrects color casts from different light sources, compare auto white balance to scene-specific settings, and learn when to adjust for accurate colors in photography.
Explore using flash during daylight to balance foreground and background light, adjust exposure and flash exposure compensation, and experiment with distance for Phil flash.
Balance foreground and background at dusk by using flash with ISO steps from 100 to 1600, and adjust exposure and distance for even illumination.
Shoot at night with flash to freeze the subject when light is low and the background brightens as you vary shutter speeds, using manual mode, ISO 800, and aperture 5.6.
Master lighting with ISO, white balance, and flash to balance foreground and background, capture true colors under warm, cool, or neutral light, and photograph scenes at sunset or night.
In this follow-up to our Beginner Digital Photography class (which covers exposure, aperture and shutter speed), this class covers:
- how you can use ISO to take better pictures in low light environments
- how to use your flash so that your images look naturally lit instead of that awful “flash” look with overexposed subjects and bright backgrounds
- how you can use white balance to help you take better portraits
You WILL need a flash for this class. If your camera came with a built-in flash, that is sufficient. You are also welcome to use an external flash if you have one