To come off automatic mode on our SLR camera is the main aim of any budding photographer. It gives you so much more freedom and allows you to be creative with your images. Your camera decides so much for you in automatic mode to the point where it's deciding what your image looks like rather than you. "Is that a bad thing?" I hear you ask; well yes if you want to be a creative photographer.
In automatic mode your camera is deciding what you focus on, your aperture,shutter speed, ISO,white balance,metering and how many times are you fed up with your flash popping up when you don't want it? On our SLR1 Photography Course our aim of the day is to get our students off automatic mode and into aperture priority mode. Using aperture priority is a great way to start and take more control over your camera. It allows you to to manually change all the functionality listed above so you can visualise your image and then adjust the camera accordingly to take the shot; oh and you decide when the flash pops up!
If you take a look at a couple of the images below taken by our students today at Seaham Hall Hotel Co Durham, these shots would have been difficult in automatic mode. The fist image of Kate Hall taken by her husband Colin Hall may or may not have worked in Automatic mode and that's the key you just don't quite know! Colin set his camera in aperture priority mode and focused on Kate's eyes using F5 giving Colin a small depth of field and a shutter speed of 1/250 sec. This guaranteed a small depth of field and a sharp shot, added to that Colin did the right thing to bring Kate into the shade to avoid harsh shadows from the sun with getting a gorgeous soft light.
The second images was taken by Lianne Davis, this is a superb image which once again would have been very difficult in auto mode. Using an aperture of F5.6 and focusing on the flower, Lianne blurred the water feature out at Seaham Hall but you still got a sense of location. Very popular shot with venues such as hotels but would have been difficult to produce in auto mode. If you would like to get off Automatic Mode and learn to take control and be creative with your camera taking shots like these why don't you attend one of my course at Going Digital North East.
In automatic mode your camera is deciding what you focus on, your aperture,shutter speed, ISO,white balance,metering and how many times are you fed up with your flash popping up when you don't want it? On our SLR1 Photography Course our aim of the day is to get our students off automatic mode and into aperture priority mode. Using aperture priority is a great way to start and take more control over your camera. It allows you to to manually change all the functionality listed above so you can visualise your image and then adjust the camera accordingly to take the shot; oh and you decide when the flash pops up!
If you take a look at a couple of the images below taken by our students today at Seaham Hall Hotel Co Durham, these shots would have been difficult in automatic mode. The fist image of Kate Hall taken by her husband Colin Hall may or may not have worked in Automatic mode and that's the key you just don't quite know! Colin set his camera in aperture priority mode and focused on Kate's eyes using F5 giving Colin a small depth of field and a shutter speed of 1/250 sec. This guaranteed a small depth of field and a sharp shot, added to that Colin did the right thing to bring Kate into the shade to avoid harsh shadows from the sun with getting a gorgeous soft light.
The second images was taken by Lianne Davis, this is a superb image which once again would have been very difficult in auto mode. Using an aperture of F5.6 and focusing on the flower, Lianne blurred the water feature out at Seaham Hall but you still got a sense of location. Very popular shot with venues such as hotels but would have been difficult to produce in auto mode. If you would like to get off Automatic Mode and learn to take control and be creative with your camera taking shots like these why don't you attend one of my course at Going Digital North East.
