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What are media cards? Yvonne Berger, one of the photography instructors at Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, explains What you need to know about media cards…

How do you select the best camera bag for your needs? Yvonne Berger, one of the photography instructors at Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, explains What kind and how many camera bags you will need. Should you have one camera bag or more than one? There answer is that you should [...]

Tripods provide great stability for your camera which will help prevent taking blurry photos. In addition, they give you the opportunity to get yourself into your photos. Yvonne Berger, an instructor with Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, New York explains how to choose the right tripod.

Aperture is one part of your exposure that allows the light to come into your camera lens. So, the aperture combined with your shutter speed are the things that give you your exposure. Adjusting the aperture value on your lens changes the opening for light to come into the camera. Aperture Settings: As you change [...]

An ISO is basically what your ASA used to be on your film. The ISO is the sensitivity of your camera to the available light. So, if you are shooting in a place where it is very bright light, like at the beach or at the park and it is a bright sunny day, a [...]

Once a beginner photographer has graduated from the automatic exposure modes on the camera the ask, “what mode should I be shooting in and what are all the ingredients that go into making up an exposure?” Four different things make up an Exposure: 1) the available light 2) the camera’s ISO (the camera’s sensitivity to [...]

Learn how to fine tune your camera’s metering. Every camera has a built in default metering mode, which is the way the camera sees the available light, and adjusts to that light. Yvonne goes into deal about manually setting each type of metering mode: Matrix Metering Center Weight metering Spot Metering

How do you select the best camera bag for your needs? Should you have one camera bag or more than one? There answer is that you should have many because there are many different occasions where you will need to have just a small bag for limited camera equipment, while on other occasions you will [...]

White balance is how your camera sees and interprets color. Every light that we see has its own color temperature. So, if we were outside on a bright sunny day….that would be one color temperature. And, we were indoors in a room with incandescent light…that would be another color temperature, etc. Watch and listen to [...]

Yvonne Berger digs into this common question: Why are my photographs blurry? One of the biggest problems for people new to photography is taking blurry photos. She touches upon a few of these symptoms including: 1. Improper Shutter Speed 2. Being Out of Focus 3. Failing to Keep the Camera Still While Taking a Photo