Photography Basics--Exposure Triangle

We will go over each setting definition, how they relate to each other, and exercises for you to get comfortable with the settings.

These settings are how you exposure an image. Together they are refered to as the Exposure Traingle. There are plenty of videos on youtube explaining the settings and their relationship. I will be live so this is the perfect time to ask questions if a concept isn't making sense or if you just have bursting curiosity.

I look at learning these basics settings as the first step towards making stylistic choices in your images. No one wants their photos to look like someone else's. At first they will--and that is okay when we are learning or experimenting! Knowing how to take your photo is the knowledge you need to confidently know why you are taking a photo.

I am looking forward to taking photos with you!

About me:

Bio

Bridget Haggerty is a fine art photographer with a previous career in event and commercial photography. She grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley where her overactive imagination lead her to wander the woods with her first camera in hand. Those photographic escapades helped her develop an appreciation of decay, nature, and hidden beauty. Bridget graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Photography. Since graduating, she lives and works in NYC using photography to pay the bills by documenting events, brand businesses, and now sharing her work with the fine art world. Bridget also teaches workshops for beginner photographers who want to learn to speak through a photograph.

Artist Statement

I create photographs using practical effects and in-camera illusions. My photographs are digital captures, printed with archival inkjet.

People believe photographs. We take photographs for granted as depictions of reality. There must have been some real scene at one time to photograph rather than just the whims of a painter’s imagination. How unsettling is it to be confused when a photograph defies truth? My work aims to unsettle, disorient the audience in order to provoke confrontation of personal beliefs.

In front of my camera, I use prisms, mirrors, and forced perspective to play tricks. Little of my work is manipulated in post-production anymore--my older pieces were heavily composited. Occasionally I use double exposure to further distort reality.