1) Different types of photography
Include Advertising Photography, Aerial Photography, Fashion Photography, Glamor Photography, Still Life Photography, Wedding Photography, Fine Art Photography, Nature Photography, Underwater Photography, Travel Photography, Architectural Photography, Portrait Photography, Photojournalism, War Photography, Candid Photography, Fire Photography, Forensic Photography, Secret Photography, Macro Photography, Headshot Photography, Food Photography, Astrophotography, Child Photography, Black and White Photography, Digital Photography and Night Photography.
2) Equipments
Include cameras, lenses, props and backgrounds, camera bags, tripods, filters, black wraps, tele-extenders and portable light diffusers.
3) Aperture
The aperture of a lens of a camera is the diameter of the lens opening and is usually controlled by an iris. The larger the diameter of the aperture, the more light reaches the film/image sensor.
4) Focus
The adjustment to place the sharpest focus where it is desired on the subject.
5) Shutter Speed
Adjustment of the speed of the shutter to control the amount of time during which the imaging medium is exposed to light for each exposure. It can be used to control the amount of light striking the image plane. 'Faster' shutter speeds can be used to decrease both the amount of light and the amount of image blurring from motion of the subject and/or camera.
6) ISO Speed
Traditionally used to "tell the camera" the film speed of the selected film on the film cameras, ISO speeds are employed on modern digital cameras as an indication of the system's gain from light to numerical output and to control the automatic exposure system. The higher the ISO number, the greater the film sensitivity to light whereas with a lower ISO number, the film is less sensitive to light.
7) Metering
Measurement of exposure so that highlights and shadows are exposed according to the photographer's wishes.
8) White Balance
On digital cameras, the white balance electronically compensates for the colour temperature associated with a given set of lighting conditions, ensuring that white light is registered as such on the imaging chip and therefore the colours in the frame will appear natural.
9) Composition ( Rules )
Rule of Thirds : The human eye is naturally drawn to a point about two-thirds up a page. Crop the photo so that the main subjects are located around one of the intersection points rather than in the center of the image.
Golden Section Rule : Certain points in a picture's composition automatically attracts the viewer's attention.
Diagonal Rule : Important elements of the picture should be placed along the diagonals formed from halving the picture, then dividing the pictures into three parts with the adjacent side divided so that the lines connecting the resulting points from a diagonal frame.
10) Techniques
Advanced skin softening with low and high pass filtering and noise reduction
Creating Digital Frames and Borders
Stitching Panoramas using Autopano Pro
References :
http://photo.net/learn/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-photography.html
http://www.photographytips.com/page.cfm/30
http://photography.about.com/od/photographyequipment/u/Equipment.htm
http://www.colorpilot.com/comp_rules.html
