Posted by Andrew on April 17th 2012
If you’ve never used Manual mode on your camera before you may wonder why anybody would use it instead of one of the automatic exposure modes. Most of the time I only use one of three exposure modes on my camera – Aperture Priority (Av), Shutter Priority (Tv) or Manual (M). In this article I’m going to explore why and explain in which situations I would use each one.
Posted by Andrew on April 11th 2012
Exposure is fundamental to the process of creating a good quality image. The reason for this is quite simple, as I’m sure many digital SLR camera users are aware. If you underexpose the image you lose shadow detail and raise noise levels, and on the other hand, if you overexpose the image you burn out the highlights. This makes exposure a delicate balancing act. The reward, if you can master exposure, is that you’ve mastered one of the building blocks of photographic technique and one of the keys to creating images of high quality.
Posted by Andrew on February 17th 2012
Craft & Vision have just released Exposure for Outdoor Photography, a new eBook by Michael Frye (the author of Light and Land). This one’s all about exposure (you might have guessed that already) and, more pertinently, how to take well exposed photos.
Posted by Andrew on December 12th 2011
Most Canon EOS users will probably have at least a passing familiarity with Digital Photo Professional (DPP), the free Raw processing software that comes with your camera. If you haven’t tried DPP, then maybe it’s time you did. It really is a very good piece of software, but one that’s easily overlooked. That’s presumably partly because it’s free – it’s easy to assume something that is free can’t be very good.
Posted by Andrew on October 12th 2011
In my previous post I talked about seeing in black and white, and how shooting black and white on a digital camera using Raw affects my thought process during a shoot. When I used black and white film (it seems like such a long time ago now) I had to visualise how the scene that I was photographing would turn out in monochrome. There was no point thinking about colour at all.
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