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Sunday, March 8, 2009
The weather is starting to improve. There's more daylight available. The digital camera you acquired during the holidays is now several months old.
Now get out there and make some photographs!
The best way to improve your photography skills is to shoot. Experiment with the settings. If you have a point and shoot camera, switch through the "auto" settings. Try these various settings while you are out shooting. They are marked with symbols and help to simply optimizing the camera settings based on specific subject types. Mix things up. Try the low-light mode on fast moving objects. See how they blur. Your camera slows down the shutter and opens up the aperture to let more light in to deal with low ambient light conditions. Through this experimentation, you'll learn what these auto mode settings do. This type of knowledge will help you to become more creative with your camera.
Once you're done trying the "Auto" settings, experiment with the priority settings. These priority settings allow you to set either the aperture, or the shutter. These are usually marked with an A or Av (Aperture value), or S or Tv (Time value). When you select one of these priority types, the camera automatically adjust the setting of the other. So if you choose TV and set the camera's shutter speed to 1/500 sec., the camera chooses the aperture for the best exposure. I'll cover more on these priority modes in the near future.
If you're shooting with a digital camera, and you are not paying to develop film, there's no excuse to get out there and experiment.
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You are so right, and I am on my way out the door this afternoon with my camera and gear for N.J..
Also, I wish to thank you for turning me onto Moose Peterson, I just purchased his "Guide to Wildlife Photography" and I found it to be very helpful, once again thanks.
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