Often photographing in manual mode scares novice photographers, and just in vain. Having learned to shoot in this mode, you will receive unlimited possibilities for managing your camera and creating creative pictures that you have conceived. The manual mode differs from others, the fact that the photographer exhibits parameters here, there is no automation, full control of the situation.
How to photograph manually
I hasten you to please you that these parameters are only 3: ISO, endurance and diaphragm. Having learned to manage them, you will open the door to the amazing world of photography.
Camera setting, taking into account the dynamics
If your picture is supposed to be some dynamic effects, for example, sport, running children flying a bird, that is, some kind of movement that needs to be frozen, then we will first expose an exposure. Usually, to freeze the object, it is enough to put an exposure from 1/250 to 1/1000 second. When installing a long exposure, you can get an interesting so-called wiring, when moving items are blurred, and an interesting effect is obtained, for example, the cars from lights from lights, and the machines themselves are not visible due to lubrication.
After that, it is necessary to choose the corresponding value of the diaphragm for excerpt and get the correct exposure. This is not difficult to do how, you just need to monitor the display indicator until it shows 0. The indicator is a scale with certain divisions and a mobile arrow index, you need to ensure that this index stops in the middle of the scale.
How to photograph manually
The designation of the plus and minus the scale shows us which direction the deviation occurred. If in plus, then the deviation occurred to the sides of the defect, if in minus, then towards overexposure.
Camera setting, given the depth of sharpness
If you have decided on your idea of the picture and understand that there will be no dynamics in it, then you need to determine what depth of sharpness in the frame you want to achieve. First set the meaning of the diaphragm, because it is it that affects the depth of sharpness. If you need a blurry background, such as when shooting a portrait or macro -photography, then the aperture must be opened. If, on the contrary, it is important for you in the frame to convey the clarity of the details, such as in the landscape, then accordingly, the aperture must be closed.
Then, after installing the diaphragm you need, you look at the exposure indicator and set an exposure when the indicator arrow will be zero. Checking the indicator is always an important point, because your picture will depend on the correctly exhibited exhibition: it will be normal, over -over or unfinished.
It is also necessary to take into account ISO, which is usually installed at a minimum, with the exception of non -standard situations. The smaller the sensitivity of the matrix, usually it is in the value of 100, the less noise will be in your picture and, accordingly, vice versa, vice versa.
General recommendations
Please note that if, after setting up the camera in manual mode, the indicator shows you the value of 0, but at the same time flashes the value of the diaphragm or excerpt, it will mean that the exposure is not correct. In this case, you need to change the ISO value and re -configure the camera in mode m. If the diaphragm or excerpt is not blinking, then your exposition is correct and nothing needs to be tuned.
How to photograph manually
Do not forget to look at the indicator just before pressing the descent, because when moving the camera, the exhibiter will not take into account various changes in brightness, in other words the indicator will constantly change near the zero mark.