How to increase your available light | Lighting Lesson 1

This is a simple lesson on the four best ways to increase your available light. One of the most common problems in photography is being limited by how much light you have. These are the four easiest ways to solve this problem. I hope you enjoy it!

This is one of several lessons available on my new dvd, Digital Photography Crash Course, which can be ordered from: http://www.michaelthementor.com/store

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[ViktorBluhme]

Doesn't decreasing the shutter speed decrease light?

[MichaelTheMentor]

@ViktorBluhme Depends on how you interpret the word "decrease". Typically "increasing" the SS speed or using a "faster" shutter speed means to have shorter exposure duration. By slowing your shutter speed down, or "decreasing" you get more light. If you are a purist, and interpret "decrease" to mean a faster shutter speed, than yes you would be right, but I have found that when teaching beginners that decrease is best understood as "slowing it down". Thanks for the comment.

[MichaelTheMentor]

good to know! Thanks!

[conthemon]

very helpful! I was at a wedding with low light and this proved to be very helpful. Although there was too much movement to capture good stills I just increased shutter speed a little and moved iso higher.

[talahkaluka]

Awesome video for beginners and all of your other videos are awesome as well.

It's so much easier now that i have found these videos. Cheers

[khaihoe]

what lens is that btw lolx..

[ashrraine25]

@MichaelTheMentor

hi i just want to ask of how do u set shutter speed and apertures if u are ready to take a picture?i need ur help pls..thanks

[ashrraine25]

hi i just want to ask of how do u set shutter speed and apertures if u are ready to take a picture?i need ur help pls..thanks

[sidewaysrussian]

late night scenery that dont move .. select [shutter priority], shutter speed [15-30sec] ISO [100-200] and a good tri-pod tha will be a WIN photo =D

[vintagepremoon]

has anyone ordered this disk? I would like to know if it is worth it. So many choices when it comes to this type of thing.

[borigard101]

i have the e510 and i love it perfect photos every time

[thembitch]

hmmm..im from Malaysia.... is it available here?