Camera YouTube guides
Yes Camera YouTube guides are important. I talk with so many people that are intimidated by the booklet that came with their camera. But seeing it on YouTube helped them get the hang of it. There are so many ways to take better photos that have nothing to do with your camera and everything to do with other elements like the sun position. However you do need to know the basic operations of your camera and these youtube guides are amazing.
Once you do find the camera that suits your needs, you have to learn how to use it. Many times the manual is confusing and poorly written. Good news though: YouTube exists, and it’s helpful.
Provided you don’t own the most obscure camera possible, there’s a good chance you’ll find dozens of tutorials, reviews, and tips for using your camera on YouTube. Watch them all. You’ll not only learn how to use your camera and what every button, dial, and feature actually does, you’ll also learn some of its quirks and problems. You’ll even see how to work through those problems, and how to tweak your camera settings to work better for you and the pictures you want to take, whether it’s low-light club photos or macro-lensed nature photography.
For Camera YouTube guides Tips and tutorials have obvious advantages, but reviews are more useful than you’d think too, even after you’ve purchased your camera. Reviews will usually point to a camera’s flaws, which can help you figure out which features work best, and which are pretty useless. They also tend to work as a quick demonstration of your camera’s basic functions, which cuts down on the learning curve.
Perhaps I’m just a visual learner, that’s why you need Camera YouTube guides but nothing I’d read about the various settings on a camera really stuck in my brain. I came across two guides that finally helped. Our friends over at Gizmodo made a video that demonstrates what each setting on a camera’s dial does, and that was one of the first to really sink in. After watching it, I finally understood how each setting worked and why (or when) I’d actually use it. It also showed me that manual mode was usually unnecessary for someone like me. Shutter priority and aperture priority do the trick most of the time, while program auto does the rest. For some reason, I’d always assumed it was shameful to use anything except manual, and that’s not the case, no matter what a self-enshrined photo pro will tell you.
Speaking of shutter and aperture, this graphic explaining ISO, aperture, and shutter speed also helped me a lot. I used to obsess over the specifics of a number—say, when exactly I’d use f/5.6 over f/8—but I’ve learned it’s not the specifics that matter, it’s understanding each setting conceptually. The higher the f-stop number, the more in focus the entire scene is. That’s all I (and you) need to remember.
There are hundreds of guides, tutorials, and graphics are out there (including our own extensive guide). What worked for me won’t necessarily work for you, but spend some time looking to find the one that does, and don’t force yourself to suffer through a guide that doesn’t. Eventually it’ll all sink in and you’ll be on your way to better photos.
