Done and Done for this tutorial.
1-Always take the photo. You will never get that moment back.
2- Read the manual and learn it inside and out (as boring as it is to read)
3- Shooting fast vs shooting slow
*Tip: If you want children to be sharp, shoot faster than 1/125th second. Children have a hard time sitting still.
Same aperture and ISO in each photo. Expirement with light and speed.
Wow, shutter speed made a HUGE difference.
All set at aperture 5, iso 400
Tripod used
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| 1/4000 |
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| 1/125 |
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| 1/25 |
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| 1/10 I like this one the best |
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| 1/2 sec |
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| 3 sec |
4- ISO
Tip: Imagine the correct exposure of an image is ISO 400 at 1/100 sec.
You can halve the ISO and double the shutter and get the same exposure – ISO 200 at 1/50 sec.
(program mode) take picture and note shutter speed it chooses.
5&6- Aperture
Love this tip: it’s counter intuitive for anyone who has given birth. In the delivery room 10 means push… in camera talk – f/1.2 means push.
All set at shutter 1/125 and iso 400
Aperture changed:
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| f5 |
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| f10 |
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| f13 I like this one the best |
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| f20 |
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| f32 |
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8- Exposure triangle. Think about skin type, sunscreen lotion and legnth of time in sun.
9- Remember piano scales? You did them so much they became second nature and your fingers just knew what to do without thinking about it. That is how well you need to know the camera. So when shooting, you dont think twice about the setttings- you will be able to change them automatically, instictively.
*Tip
ISO stops: 100 200 400 800 1600 3200 6400 etc.
Shutter Speed Stops: 1/1000 1/500 1/250 1/125 1/60 1/30 1/15 1/8 1/4 1/2 1″ 2″ 4″ 8″ etc.
Aperture Stops: f/1 f/1.4 f/2 f/2.8 f/4 f/5.6 f/8 f/11 f/16 f/22 f/32
10- Metering!
Focus on subject when metering, not sky and shadows.
11- No more auto!
Turn flash off
Lowest ISO
Sunny 16 Rule”: On a sunny day, shoot at f/16 with a shutter speed of 1/ISO#. So ISO 100 at 1/100s or ISO 200 at 1/200s. For overcast days, the rule is “Cloudy 8″. Start at f/8 with a shutter speed of 1/ISO# as a guesstimate
12-13 white balance
14- 15 Histogram
A histogram is simply a pixel count of the amount of dark, light and everything between, presented in a visual graph.
Good read
16- Exposure Comp.
Used in Auto mode
17-18 Lenses
Good lenses often have one job and do it well. They are wide angle OR telephoto OR macro OR portrait.
Good lenses have very large max apertures. f/1.2 or f/1.4 for prime lenses and f/2.8 or greater for other lenses.
The right equipment makes more things possible in the right hands.
No amount of equipment will make a photographer out of one who is not.
19- When natural light wont cut it. Learn about my new flash!
20- The technical aspects of photography are simply tools to make the images you love and plan to take anyway that much better. But it's about the art.
21- Composition
Fill frame
Simple backgrounds
Rule of thirds
Patterns – repetition of lines or elements
Depth of field
Framing
Lines
Negative space
Symmetry
22-30 Post production. I love photoshop. But I will tackle the Photoshop section at a later time!!
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