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May 7, 2012 04:23:09   #
rocar7 Loc: Alton, England
 
[quote=Bill41]
sjbegres wrote:
Bill41 wrote:
micki wrote:
Hello everyone, first of all, I must say that this is a very fun site to visit. Everybody seems to be very helpful and friendly. I have a D7000, which I enjoy very much, beautiful photo's. I'm just curious to how people shoot with their camera, in Program, Aperture, or Shutter Priority mode during normal shooting.[f/quote]

It depends on the shot. I use (gasp!) program for a lot of shots, but aperture for depth of field and shutter to stop or show motion. Regardless of which I use, I use a 1 - 4 degree spot incident/reflective to periodically check exposure.
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What do you mean by "I use a 1-4 degree spot incident/reflective to...check exposure"?
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Sorry, I did not complete the sentence. I have a light meter that combines reflective metering with an incident meter. The meter, a Sekonic L-508, has an adjustable spotmeter (1 - 4 degrees) for reflective metering. I started out using it with my 4 X 5, but now use it often to adjust exposure of scenes with a wide exposure range; it helps me concentrate on the part of the scene that interests me most. I don't use the camera's spot meter because I'm too old and senile to remember to reset it to evaluative mode.
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The only meter I have is a very old - about 40 years - Weston Master V. It still works, but I don't know how accurate it is. I used to rely on it in the days before TTL metering at air shows, where I would take an incident light reading and set the camera for the day, unless the sun went in. Otherwise I would use the guide that came with the film.

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May 7, 2012 08:23:02   #
sjbegres Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
 
PNagy wrote:
russelray wrote:
mgstrawn wrote:
Kenny wrote:
Harvey wrote:
I just can never understand why a person takes
a wonderful nature photo of a crystal clear stream and then turns it in a milky fake-phony imitation of flowing "stuff" with those slow shutter settings - no longer representing nature..
chillwil wrote:
When shooting the waterfalls and streams try slowing the shutter speed down to about 1/30, this makes the water look like it is flowing rather than making it stop with a fast shutter speed


I think some of us take photos of flowing water to create "milky" versions for no other reason than just because we can, and it has become a fad. I must prefer such scenes which depict waterfalls in their true state. But to each his or her own.
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I so agree! It is rewarding to know how to produce the 'milky' version, but I also like to 'freeze' the motion in order to remember the natural state of the water.
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So freezing the motion is the natural state of the water? Hmmm. Maybe ice, then?
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Freezing a shot does not refer to liquid changing its state to a solid. It means stopping the action with a fast enough shutter speed. You knew that, but I had to make sure.
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LOL

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Jul 2, 2016 07:46:52   #
bsmith52 Loc: Northeast Alabama
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Using P, I can always take a picture, but in M, I can adjust the settings so that the image is really bad.


LOL. Love it Jerry, you nailed it!

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