Tag: shutter-speed
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Bird Settings
There are a couple of ways of setting up your camera to shoot birds in flight. This morning (Feb. 6/25) it was rainy and breezy and for whatever reason our Canada Geese were almost continuously flying overhead. We had about a dozen photographers from the Oakville Camera Club. So how do you set up your…
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Why Do My Photos Suck?
This is a common complaint and one I make myself somedays LOL. There are a lot of reasons but let’s keep this simple and do a pointform:
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Black & White Blues
This isn’t a great image. It was shot with a Nikkormat with a flaky meter (since fixed I hope). It’s not really composed well and there’s something wrong with the exposure (can’t really blame the meter as I was carrying an incident light meter in my bag). But it gets worse! The HP5 was over…
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Streaking At Night
The Oakville Camera Club held an on-the-street and in-the-cold member workshop on time exposures and double image photography Monday night (March 18). I’m guessing we had 12 or so photographers who turned out despite the very chilly temperatures to learn more about how to do double and time exposures. First thing you need is a…
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Shaky Camera Syndrome
One of the biggest problems with buying an expensive modern technologically amazing digital camera is the automation. Automation in the hands of a new photographer can easily work against getting a good image as easily as it should work in getting the image right in the camera. What I see often on FaceBook are new…
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Blinded By The Light
Another new photographer asked on FaceBook for suggestions on how to improve her badly exposed image of some birds feeding in a field. The birds were about the size of big chickens and the background was an overexposed field of green. Of the 20 or so recommendations she got almost all of them were wrong:…
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Shakey Photos
Are you getting images that look out of focus or just overall soft and not as sharp as you’d like to see? Is this happening when shooting indoors without a flash or when taking shots at night again without a flash? If so it’s very likely your shutter speed is too slow. This happens all…
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Manual Mode – Finally
After paying way more than you thought possible for a new complex digital camera with all kinds of modes and controls and menu items why oh why would you want to shoot in manual mode? In the old days before digital cameras and even before automation came to 35 mm film cameras all cameras from…
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“S”-mode
Shutter speed priority (S mode) allows the photographer to manually set the shutter speed for a given exposure while the camera then automatically sets the appropriate aperture and ISO setting. Usually labelled as S on your camera, it is also shown as TV (for time value) on Canon cameras. So why use S mode? Using…
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What’s “A” Mode?
Aperture mode is often the preferred mode of the professional photographer. In aperture mode the photographer sets the preferred aperture value and the camera auto selects the proper shutter speed based on the available light. Aperture mode gives the photographer full control over one of the most important settings in photography. With it the photographer…
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