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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 175284" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>If you want to break away from using Auto and get comfortable shooing in Manual, the best way to learn is to just do it. No one needs to see these shots, just get out there and start experimenting. It's probably easier than you think to shoot in Manual but knowing a few things first will help you succeed right off the bat.</p><p></p><p><strong>Thing 1.</strong> Learn about <a href="http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/understanding-histograms.shtml" target="_blank">How to Read and Use Historgrams</a>. This is freaking HUGE. Seriously. Take the five minutes required to really understand this amazing tool your camera provides you. The importance of understanding your histograms can not be over-rated.</p><p></p><p><strong>Thing 2.</strong> Understand exposure is about one thing and one thing only... Intensity of light. This intensity is <em>controlled</em> in two ways: First, the camera's shutter speed controls *time*. More time = more intensity. Less time = less intensity. The second way is the camera's aperture which controls *volume*. Bigger aperture = more volume. Smaller aperture = less volume. One full f-stop smaller halves the volume, one full f-stop wider doubles the volume assuming the shutter speed is the same.</p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">...</span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Thing 2a.</strong> Understand why shooting at f8 @ 1/125 or f/11 @ 1/60 or f5.6 @ 1/250 will *all* yield the same exposure. This is called "Reciprocity of Exposure" and it's funny how many "pro's" don't fully grasp this concept. You will not be one of them. You will know this backwards and forwards because understanding this concept will liberate you.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffffff">....</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong> Thing 2b.</strong> The Exposure Meter at the bottom of your viewfinder: (-) ..... 0 ...... (+)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The zero at the center indicates what your meter thinks will yield perfect exposure. You will temper this assumption with your expanded understanding of histograms and how your meter is "seeing" the scene and what it is "thinking". This meter is just another tool for your brain and you will not blindly obey it, you will understand what it is telling you and adjust a setting to get what you want out the shot. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p><strong>Thing 3.</strong> The Exposure Compensation Button. You understand exposure and you understand reciprocity of exposure. The value of this button should be clear. It simply makes applying the principles faster and easier.</p><p></p><p><strong>Thing 4. </strong>The above is not as much to learn/think about as it probably sounds like it is by looking at it. Be bold. Learn, experiment, control, repeat!</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">.....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 175284, member: 13090"] If you want to break away from using Auto and get comfortable shooing in Manual, the best way to learn is to just do it. No one needs to see these shots, just get out there and start experimenting. It's probably easier than you think to shoot in Manual but knowing a few things first will help you succeed right off the bat. [B]Thing 1.[/B] Learn about [URL="http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/understanding-histograms.shtml"]How to Read and Use Historgrams[/URL]. This is freaking HUGE. Seriously. Take the five minutes required to really understand this amazing tool your camera provides you. The importance of understanding your histograms can not be over-rated. [B]Thing 2.[/B] Understand exposure is about one thing and one thing only... Intensity of light. This intensity is [I]controlled[/I] in two ways: First, the camera's shutter speed controls *time*. More time = more intensity. Less time = less intensity. The second way is the camera's aperture which controls *volume*. Bigger aperture = more volume. Smaller aperture = less volume. One full f-stop smaller halves the volume, one full f-stop wider doubles the volume assuming the shutter speed is the same. [COLOR=#ffffff]...[/COLOR][INDENT][B]Thing 2a.[/B] Understand why shooting at f8 @ 1/125 or f/11 @ 1/60 or f5.6 @ 1/250 will *all* yield the same exposure. This is called "Reciprocity of Exposure" and it's funny how many "pro's" don't fully grasp this concept. You will not be one of them. You will know this backwards and forwards because understanding this concept will liberate you. [COLOR=#ffffff]....[/COLOR] [/INDENT] [INDENT][B] Thing 2b.[/B] The Exposure Meter at the bottom of your viewfinder: (-) ..... 0 ...... (+) The zero at the center indicates what your meter thinks will yield perfect exposure. You will temper this assumption with your expanded understanding of histograms and how your meter is "seeing" the scene and what it is "thinking". This meter is just another tool for your brain and you will not blindly obey it, you will understand what it is telling you and adjust a setting to get what you want out the shot. [/INDENT] [B]Thing 3.[/B] The Exposure Compensation Button. You understand exposure and you understand reciprocity of exposure. The value of this button should be clear. It simply makes applying the principles faster and easier. [B]Thing 4. [/B]The above is not as much to learn/think about as it probably sounds like it is by looking at it. Be bold. Learn, experiment, control, repeat! [COLOR=#ffffff].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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