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In an effort to compete, as well as provide lots of control to users of digital cameras, camera vendors have created a wide variety of different exposure modes. All of these modes fall into one of four categories: automatic, creative, manual, or special.
When you use an automatic mode, the camera chooses both f-stop and shutter speed for you based upon its attempt to optimize exposure for a particular type of subject. Besides choosing f-stop and shutter speed, some automatic setting modes also control the ISO setting based upon the available light, or white balance. They can automatically turn on a built-in flash if it is needed, or make other settings for you automatically.
One drawback of using some automatic modes is they do not let you modify some settings such as exposure compensation, automatic exposure bracketing, or the light metering or focus methods. A creative exposure setting allows you to choose either f-stop or shutter speed, then the camera attempts to choose the other settings for you based upon your initial choice. If there is not enough light, or there is too much light to get a good exposure, your camera may not let you even take a photo! Using a manual setting, you get to set everything yourself! Yes, that means that you can do all kinds of creative things like over- and under-exposures without having to fight with the camera in any way!
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After you’ve chosen a specific exposure mode, you may then need to make additional changes to either the f-stop or shutter speed. If you have chosen one of the automatic modes that selects all the settings for you, you may not be able to make any changes. If you have selected one of the creative modes, an automatic mode that allows changes, or the manual setting, now is the time to make changes to the f-stop or shutter speed to get the results you want.
One of the common mistakes made by those new to photography is to use one of the creative modes, such as aperture priority mode or shutter priority mode, and simply shoot without considering what the current setting is! Although these modes are automatic— meaning, for example, that the aperture priority mode automatically sets the shutter speed based upon the
aperture setting — you have to first select an appropriate aperture setting! The same thing applies to the shutter priority mode.You set the shutter speed to be what you want and then the camera sets the aperture to get the right exposure. If you don’t choose these settings, you will simply be using the setting that the camera was last set on.
There’s photographer who enjoy herself from taking pictures of animals. If you happen to be one of them, then it’s nice to know that many of animal photographer can sell their animal photo collection to make a game for their kids. Kids love to play, and we can make a puzzle game out of animal pictures. It’s not that hard to make one, but you should first make patterns which size is determine by your kids’ age.
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Before you can choose an appropriate exposure mode, you must first determine what you want the photo to look like! It sounds simple, but visualizing how a photo should look before you take it is a skill that must be acquired. Those who have it take better photos than those who don’t have it. If you don’t have it yet, don’t worry; keep reading and keep shooting.
All cameras (whether they are digital or film) expose either an image sensor or film with light. Light entering the camera is controlled in three important ways: the amount of time the shutter is open, the size of the lens opening, and the ISO setting. The larger the lens opening, the faster the light exposes the image sensor or film. The corollary is the smaller the lens opening, the longer the shutter will have to be open in order to allow the same amount of light in to expose the sensor or film.
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Digital photos are inherently “soft” as opposed to being “sharp,” because the image is represented by pixels, or “dots,” instead of a smooth tonal range like analog or traditional photos. But that’s okay because you can sharpen an image and increase contrast in many ways. You can sharpen a photo by “editing” it with an image editor such as Adobe Photoshop 7 or Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, or if your digital camera has an “in-camera sharpening process,” you can turn it on to increase the perception that an image is sharp. Likewise, you may find your digital camera has an “in-camera contrast” feature, too.
Before you use either of these features, you need to carefully consider how you intend to use your photos, and you ought to experiment with the features before using them to shoot photos for an important event. If you don’t plan on using an image editor to sharpen your photos, you may find that the sharpness and contrast features in your camera help you get better prints when you print on some printers. Should you plan on using an image editor to edit your photos, I suggest that you not use either of these features because you’ll have much more control over your image in your image editor.
One more useful feature many digital cameras offer is an automatic file (and sometimes folder) numbering feature. You realize how valuable this feature can be after you start storing and archiving your digital photos. If you have the option, I recommend that you set automatic file numbering to “On.”When this feature is on, image files will be sequentially numbered—even when you remove the digital photo storage media and use a new one. The camera remembers the number of the last photo regardless of which digital photo image media was in the camera last.
If you don’t have, or you don’t use this feature, you will find that you have files with the exact same filename! Each time you remove a card and download the images to your computer, the digital camera starts numbering at 1 again. This means that you have to rename files if you want to put them in the same folder with another file with the same name. Additionally, sequentially numbered files just make keeping track of when you shot particular photos easy.
SETTING COMPRESSION LEVEL
If you chose the .jpg format in the previous post, you may want to check to see whether your camera allows you to choose different compression levels. A moderate amount of JPEG compression can dramatically reduce file size while only slightly reducing image quality; in fact, you may not notice any image degradation at all relative to a non-compressed or .tif “raw” format. As compression level increases, file size decreases, as does image-quality to some extent. Once again, you are faced with the trade-off between file size and image-quality. On those occasions where you have limited photo storage capacity, you may want to increase the compression level so that you have room to take more photos. Otherwise, you should use a setting that applies the least amount of image compression.
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In digital photography, not only are you faced with the traditional trade-offs between shutter speed and aperture size, but you also must choose from among a number of settings that determine file size (which ultimately is a trade-off between files that take less space to store and less computer processor cycles to edit) and image-quality. The five major factors determining image file size are image resolution, image format, compression level, ISO setting, and the subject. You can control the first four of those five factors with user-selectable settings that allow you to optimize image file size with image-quality to meet your needs.
Almost all digital cameras offer user-changeable settings for image resolution. For example, the Canon PowerShot G2 has a maximum image size of 2,272 × 1,704 pixels. It also has image resolution settings of 1,600 × 1,200, 1,024 × 768, and 640 × 480.
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Today’s digital cameras are both rich in features and highly capable of helping you get good photos when used in one of many “auto” modes—without requiring you to know much about your camera or photography. However, learning how to use your digital camera and its many features will enable you to get even better photos and do things you never even imagined could be done.
READ (OR GLANCE THROUGH) YOUR MANUAL
Most digital camera users have proven over and over that they can take good pictures without reading most of the written documentation that came with their camera; some never read any of it at all—ever! Not reading the documentation that came with your camera when you get the camera is okay. Not reading it at all just means that you won’t be able to take advantage of many cool and useful features your camera offers.Not only does reading the manual help you to more fully enjoy your camera, but it also
enables you to take better pictures. It is also quite likely that you will be more than compensated for your investment in time because your effort may help you avoid missing good shots of those important events that you get only one chance to shoot.
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