What Shooting Mode Do You Use?
Mar 25, 2014 20:35:45 #
gnawbone
Loc: Southern Indiana
liv2paddle wrote:
.......I recently watched a wedding seminar and the photograher uses P mode for all the candids..crazy but his name is Joe Bussink..so I would not argue against him..
I'd never heard of this guy so I went to his website ..... good grief! The command he has of his camera is incredible but his imagination for composition is ridiculous - in my lifetime I hope to make one picture like his. He sees things I can't even imagine - thanks for mentioning him, I'll return to that website often for inspiration. What a gift he has .....
Mar 25, 2014 20:54:28 #
I shoot a lot of landscape, so Aperture priority is my friend. Sometimes I jump to manual for landscapes ... usually if the lighting is challenging, and I am using ND or GND filters, or using flash for fill, and then my flash is on manual as well, and I am playing with the output until I get the amount of fill that I want for the aperture I am using.
For street I will either use manual or shutter priority (somewhere between 1/200 and 1/400), with an aperture setting of F5.6 - F8, and then let the ISO float.
For street I will either use manual or shutter priority (somewhere between 1/200 and 1/400), with an aperture setting of F5.6 - F8, and then let the ISO float.
Mar 25, 2014 21:28:59 #
quagmire
Loc: Greenwood,South Carolina
I shoot in shutter priority and color balance and iso because I mostly shoot grands. and they are never still.
Mar 25, 2014 22:00:23 #
There are at least 4 separate program modes you can set up on the D700 and one is in fact point & shoot, great for a kids party but the settings available for each mode are almost endless and allow you to shoot just about any situation with confidence. Shooting in a program mode doesn't relegate the D700 to an expensive point and shoot category, it simply allows photography to be more enjoyable.
Mar 25, 2014 22:12:06 #
Pepper
Loc: Planet Earth Country USA
Shutter priority for sports, Aperture for static shots, these two cover probably 95% of my shooting. Program mode for the remainder.
Mar 25, 2014 22:14:49 #
wannabe63 wrote:
No problem. I'm a beginner and easily confused. I'm getting the feeling that "back button focusing" is something different to what the name infers. I still don't get it but that's ok I'll live to shoot another shot.
The "back button focusing", I believe is where you have a button on the back of your camera that you can set up to do your focusing rather than pushing the shutter button half way down ro focus. I don't know for certain if all dSLR's have it or not, but I know Nikon does abd I think Canon does too.
Mar 25, 2014 22:31:47 #
ggttc wrote:
Ok...it is...tell me...you have a group of, lets say...blue jays in the back yard...what settings would you use?
You want to catch them in flight cause there having a little mid air squabble...don't look it up, set your camera in manual NOW.
keep in mind they are moving in and out of DOF...they are fast...1/800 should do it...try f 14....keep your ISO at under 400
Heck...they're gone.
You want to catch them in flight cause there having a little mid air squabble...don't look it up, set your camera in manual NOW.
keep in mind they are moving in and out of DOF...they are fast...1/800 should do it...try f 14....keep your ISO at under 400
Heck...they're gone.
That's right... the birds are gone.
Well, you have a choice... You can use aperture priority and let the camera help you... or you can use AUTO. I'm not apposed to Auto settings. I didn't say that I only use manual settings and nothing else. I love to use the Sports mode to freeze fast moving subjects. When I don't have time to think about anything else and the bird is flying by.... that's when AUTO SPORT is perfect... and anyone that tells you you're cheating because you don't use manual all of the time has probably lost a few really good images because they "... only use manual settings."
Here are some photos that I took last summer on the Oregon coast in Auto mode. The last two were a seagull feeding frenzy that happen so fast I didn't have time to breath. I put the camera in auto and got some beautiful images. Sometimes you have to defy the purists and use your common sense.
Seagull in Bandon
Feeding the seagulls at sunset
Feeding the seagulls at sunset
Mar 25, 2014 22:37:43 #
riverlass wrote:
That's right... the birds are gone. br Well, you h... (show quote)
I just couldn't agree with you more. Taking pictures should be fun, but not getting a shot of something and regretting it, is most definitely not fun.
Mar 25, 2014 22:39:04 #
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Mar 26, 2014 00:39:40 #
amehta
Loc: Boston
wannabe63 wrote:
Sorry, I don't understand. Would you please give an example of that process?
I think this needs to be a different topic, so we are not digressing from the ideas of this one.
Mar 26, 2014 01:29:43 #
Either full manual - I love my EVF - or Program (for people shots if my point n shoot isn't handy, I don't like people shots, LOL!), very seldom anything in-between. I also love Panorama.
Mar 26, 2014 02:02:03 #
DavidPine wrote:
My goal when I started out in July was to be able ... (show quote)
David,
Why would you think it is necessary to shoot only in Manual Mode? Your D7100 is a powerful imaging tool, and Nikon wouldn't have bothered putting "other" modes on your camera, if they didn't think they would sometimes be of use to you. I often use Manual Mode, and think I am pretty good at it, but other times I just want to let my camera do "it's thing." I am rarely disappointed in the settings my camera comes up with. I don't use the Auto Mode, but use what Canon calls Program Mode, which is a semi-automatic mode. I don't remember what Nikon calls their Program Mode, but I am sure your D7100 has one. You don't have to feel like a failure as a photographer, just because you don't do everything manually all the time.
Mar 26, 2014 02:12:47 #
amehta
Loc: Boston
ThomasS wrote:
David, br Why would you think it is necessary to s... (show quote)
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Mar 26, 2014 02:30:01 #
wannabe63
Loc: Bellevue, Washington
amehta wrote:
I think this needs to be a different topic, so we are not digressing from the ideas of this one.
Sorry. I'm kinda new at this and wasn't sure how to go about finding an answer to my question.
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