The 10-Minute Guide to control your camera
This does not feel like plowing through the dense 150 + page instruction manual before you take your new digital SLR camera and break some impressive shots? With a few simple tips, it is easier than you think through this perplexing series of buttons, levers, controls and options. The key is to take things step by step. (Even if you do not have the mass Plop down in a fancy digital SLR camera, many of these tips also for the whole of the point and shoot.)
1. Do not let it intimidate the camera. Adelante, on full automatic, as he would with his point of view camera and shoot.
2. Use the small through the lens, instead of the LCD screen for composing shots. Even small DSLRs are heavy compared to other devices to keep the camera close to you for stability.
3. Using the image stabilization. Most DSLRs have a kind of image stabilization (antishake) technology, turn it on and leave it. The only time to extinguish antishake is when the camera is on a tripod.
4. Keep your camera preset continuous. This feature means that you capture every millisecond of the first baby step if you leave your finger on the trigger. After all, one of the greatest advantages of having a digital SLR camera is speed.
5. Shooting in RAW mode rather than JPEG. RAW allows you to change the settings of white balance and exposure during the editing process with little or no damage to the original image. The disadvantage is that it can be a memory hog-RAW reason for a high capacity memory card.
6. For close-ups, use the macro mode. This mode is ideal for photographing flowers, insects and other small items. In most cases this will focus in the foreground while leaving the background blurred.
7. Choose a fast shutter speed to freeze movement in shooting sports events, young children, or other fast moving objects. Shutter Priority allows selecting a shutter speed, and the camera chooses all the other parameters. For situations of low light or capturing the movement, for example, a waterfall, choose a slow shutter speed.
8. Tweak only a manual adjustment at a time. You want to have a good idea of how a parameter affects your photos. In addition to the above, good configuration with the first experiment, including the ISO (film or image size on the sensitivity to light) and exposure (amount of light allowed to fall on an image).
9. Avoid shooting in front of a sun or bright light. The camera’s computer mistakenly interpret and darken the light of your topic. Compensate by changing its position or shooting moving subject. When you grow more comfortable with your digital SLR, you can discover the full range of tools for in situ measurement, bracketing, flash fill, exposure correction to correct the backlight.
10. To organize photos to respect the rule of thirds. It is the image of a time that the image is divided into nine parts by two equally spaced horizontal lines and two vertical lines. When your items appear on the four points where the lines cross, you can create more tension and energy that just focus on one half of the display.
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