Berger Blog

Yvonne Berger, head instructor at Berger Bros Camera in Long Island, discusses two items which should always be in your camera bag: a hood loop and a UV Filter.

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

“What is the difference between a JPEG file and Raw file?” This is one of the most frequently asked questions we hear from new students. The video above features Yvonne Berger, head instructor for Berger Bros School of Photography, explaining these differences.