My suggestion for this week is slightly different ... rather than a particular subject, let's look at an interesting option in our basic shooting technique.
We know that there is an exposure pyramid involving Film/ISO speed, Aperture, and Exposure. Each can be manipulated to achieve our desired results. We've had the "Aperture Priority" and "Shutter Priority" automatic modes for decades. But what about the third leg of the pyramid? Most of our cameras have an AUTO ISO mode in addition to the traditional AUTO modes. Choosing that options opens an interesting artistic option ... using the M (manual) mode we can choose our shutter speed/aperture combo for the shot we want to produce and the electronics take care of getting the proper exposure by setting the appropriate ISO speed (don't think this will work with film
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I've tried this several times and found it an interesting tool. One area where it was perfect was shooting our son's water polo games. I'd set the aperture to f5.6, the shutter speed to 1/500 or 1/750, and fire away.
(Our son is number 9 here ...)
I thought it'd be fun to give this a try for a week and see what you think.
I must say, other than these sports shots, I rarely use this as my brain still harkens back to my film roots. But, with the superior ISO performance built in to our cameras, perhaps I need to try this more often. Let's try and see what happens!!
Ken
We know that there is an exposure pyramid involving Film/ISO speed, Aperture, and Exposure. Each can be manipulated to achieve our desired results. We've had the "Aperture Priority" and "Shutter Priority" automatic modes for decades. But what about the third leg of the pyramid? Most of our cameras have an AUTO ISO mode in addition to the traditional AUTO modes. Choosing that options opens an interesting artistic option ... using the M (manual) mode we can choose our shutter speed/aperture combo for the shot we want to produce and the electronics take care of getting the proper exposure by setting the appropriate ISO speed (don't think this will work with film
I've tried this several times and found it an interesting tool. One area where it was perfect was shooting our son's water polo games. I'd set the aperture to f5.6, the shutter speed to 1/500 or 1/750, and fire away.
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(Our son is number 9 here ...)
I thought it'd be fun to give this a try for a week and see what you think.
I must say, other than these sports shots, I rarely use this as my brain still harkens back to my film roots. But, with the superior ISO performance built in to our cameras, perhaps I need to try this more often. Let's try and see what happens!!
Ken