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some cows
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a roadblock earlier. should i use a flash or slower shutter speeds or what?
i’ve been reading a couple of books and they don’t really recommend using the flash,
i don’t have a tripod yet so slower shutter speeds will undoubtedly end up shaky.
anyhoo all comments and criticism welcome
Tough one. A slow shutter speed would have allowed the cows to moo-ve :)
Increasing the ISO might have helped but you’d be hard-pushed to get a
fair exposure here. Flash may have been your only option, but there’s
no EXIF data that I can see, so it’s hard to be certain.exif data?
edit; i used 20 – 40mm lens at 40mm, 1/30 sec, f2.8
is that it?It is under exposed. I tried to pull it back in PS. Not great but at least you can see the cattle. The white cattle are now a bit blown. Were you shooting with manual exposure? I would have expected a clearer image if the auto exposure set the camera to 1/30s at f2.8.
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hi guthrij, yeah i shot it in manual. i flicked the camera into auto so i would have some idea of the shutter speed and aperture i should be using.
i like what you’ve done with the pic, but when taken it was a fair bit darker, 17.05 it says on the camera.!7:00 in November is pretty dark. In this low light you would need to use flash.
Cheers.
John
It looks as if maybe you had a bit of a metering issue, maybe the settings you got in auto had a meter reading for the sky… Which is maybe why it’s so underexposed after switching to manual. For something like this f5.6 would be good and at 40mm I would aim for a shutter speed of 1/60 might be better to set your camera in aperture priority. Then adjust the ISO, if you prefer not to use flash. This looks as if it could have been a nice picture.
Do you always shoot in manual? My advice would be to shoot in aperture priority, less metering issues that way :wink:
Sinead.
btw, your user name… is that a character from a movie? The Golden Child?
i’ll try the aperture priority mode next time. learning a lot lately through this site and a couple of books i have on the subject. still new to the photography game, only had the camera a couple of weeks. but i like the site, plenty of folk willing to help, although i’d rather shoot manually and really get to know the ins and outs without relying on the auto options.
well spotted on the name by the way..sardo numspa wrote:
although i’d rather shoot manually and really get to know the ins and outs without relying on the auto options.
well spotted on the name by the way..I tried shooing in manual when first got my camera too, but I ended up frustrated as was getting lots of underexposed pictures and the fact I was shooting in film made it even more frustrating. If you shoot in aperture priority, you still have to control the shutter speed and ISO settings, it’s hardly auto… But if you are metering the camera in auto and then using the same settings when you switch to manual, is that not almost the same as shooting in full auto?
I loved that movie… want to watch it now :)
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