Monday, July 24, 2017

Photography: Exercise 1

Exercise

  1. ·         Put the camera in auto mode and half press the shutter. While looking through the viewfinder, pan around a scene and see how the automatically selected camera settings – f ratio and shutter speed – change. This preview will disappear after a few seconds, so half press the shutter again for another look.
  2. ·         Set the camera in shutter priority mode and choose a shutter speed for effect, eg: short for sports, long for motion blur. Shoot different scenes and note how the camera adjusts the aperture to balance the exposure.
  3. ·         Do the same as above for aperture – wide for shallow depth of field, narrow for focus detail at all distances.
  4. ·         Get adventurous and put the camera on full manual. Adjust the camera settings yourself, and watch the arrow below the exposure meter. Tweak the settings to get the arrow in the middle of the meter – half press the shutter while looking at your scene to take a meter reading.
  5. ·         Try to apply what you have learned to make creative photos that take advantage of the different exposure modes.

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