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5 Essential Infographics For The Beginner Photographer

Hanssie,
7 years ago

I have a journal that I kept when I started to learn photography. The pages are scribbled with notes and

diagrams made while I was trying to grasp the basic functions of my camera. The camera manual could’ve

been written in Greek for all I knew. I remember wishing for a condensed easy to understand version to

help me like Cliff’s Notes did when I had to read Shakespeare in the 12th grade.

Well, my wish was granted a few years too late, but nevertheless, I found some pretty cool cheat sheets

(officially titled, “Infographics”) full of the information I wish I knew all condensed in one place.

The first one (it’s kind of long so keep scrolling…), created by Photography Degree, first appeared on The

Phoblographer.

Photography 101: An Essential Photography Infographic for the Beginner

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Light Modifiers Cheat Sheet found on DIY Photography.net

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Portrait Lighting With Your Home Studio by Digital Camera World

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Your Flash Modes and When To Use Them by Digital Camera World

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Color Temperature Scale by Digital Photography World

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For more, remember that Google is a beginning photographers best friend. Just look for the terms,

“Infographic” or “Cheatsheets.” Don’t put in “Cliff’s Notes” though, you might end up with a succinct

version of “Macbeth.”

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Hanssie
Hanssie is a Southern California-based writer and sometimes
portrait and wedding photographer. In her free time, she
homeschools, works out, rescues dogs and works in marketing
for SLR Lounge. She also blogs about her adventures and about
fitness when she's not sick of writing so much. Check out her
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11 COMMENTS

Red Marginelli
For beginning photographers who are looking for some more in depth tips, techniques, and
overall help, I’d recommen taking a look at https://www.photographytalk.com/beginner-
photography-tips which has a fairly comprehensive library of articles targeted at beginner
photographers.

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Jeremy May
Great !

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Jesper Ek
Great graphics – not only for beginners!

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Ian Sanderson
cool graphics!

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Hans photoWerks
good overview!

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Wendell Fernandes
All this helps but PRACTICE – makes it perfect or close to it…

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Dennis
Yup, the graph is incorrect for the aperture, as well as the spelling. Nice idea, just needs to
be proofed. Little hole, big DOF. Big hole, Little DOF.

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Jonathan
THANK YOU!!!

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Spurtz-Fritz
“Aperature”?

Credibility just left the building. It’s a basic photography term, as well as a simple English
word. Spell check.

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Kevin Gamble
At the dire risk of self-promotion, I literally just wrote an article of the ten things I wish I
knew when I was a beginner photographer. Some of them are covered in the infographics
above, some are added.

Either way, here it is:

10 Tips for Brand New DSLR Photographers
http://taketheleap.ca/2013/08/10-tips-for-brand-new-dslr-photographers/

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Sean Brecht
Am i the only one seeing a couple of issues with these? Namely at the end of the first one
(In Summation) section which seems to indicate that a wide open aperture gives you
‘greater’ depth of field??? and a smaller aperture opening gives you shallow DOF??? It’s
not the only error but its certainly the one that caught my eye.

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