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Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory

Sensors, Pixels and Resolution

A course by Giulia Candussi , Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker

Learn how to use a digital camera and its settings to start taking high-quality photos

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About the video: Sensors, Pixels and Resolution

Overview

“We talked about cameras as a whole in the previous lesson, now it’s time to see what’s inside! As we know, the size of a camera is not important, but the size of the sensor and the amount of pixels is! In this lesson, we will understand what these scary terms mean and how they affect the quality of our photos. ”

In this video lesson Giulia Candussi addresses the topic: Sensors, Pixels and Resolution, which is part of the Domestika online course: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory. Learn how to use a digital camera and its settings to start taking high-quality photos.

Partial transcription of the video

“Sensors, Pixels & Resolution In this lesson we're gonna talk about sensors, pixels and resolution, but please don't be scared, I'm gonna explain you what all these scary terms mean. In the previous lesson I told you that the size of the camera is not important, but the size of the sensor and the quantity of pixels is. When you're buying a camera you have to consider the size of the sensor because that will determine the quality of the images, the sharpness of the images and, obviously and consequently, the price. The sensor converts the lights that come into the camera into digital data...”

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Course summary for: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (727)
34910 students
6 units
18 lessons (2h 28m)
14 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Software
Adobe Lightroom
Areas
Digital Photography, Photographic Composition, Photography

Giulia Candussi

A course by Giulia Candussi

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Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker

Giulia Candussi is an Italian photojournalist based in Scotland with over a decade of experience in producing photo reportages about human rights, environmental issues, and cultural identity. It was during her studies in International Relations (Bologna University, Italy) where she discovered the field of photo-reportage and the impact it could have on the world. Passionate about expressing her vision, she went on to study a Master’s in Photojournalism in London.

Giulia has collaborated with local media and international news agencies such as Getty Images and her work was published on La Repubblica, L’Espresso, The Guardian, Huffington Post, US Weekly, and more. She has traveled extensively in Europe and the Americas, also working with non-governmental organizations. As a documentary filmmaker, she has produced “Upstream” and “Hogar”. Currently, she produces “Van Life”, a documentary series for BBC Scotland’s “The Social”. Her work has been exhibited in èStoria, international history festival (Gorizia, 2011) and Photomonth, international photography festival (London, 2010), Centro Culturale Candiani (Venice Mestre, 2015), at the art gallery Storie Contemporanee (Rome, Italy 2017), and more.