Hello and welcome back to
GMax studios. In today's
episode, we are going to
take a look at how to shoot in manual mode.
In fact, after watching today's
episode, quite a few
of you will be really
disappointed to figure out
that how easy it is
to shoot in the manual mode
because mostly manual mode
is made out to be one
complicated mode which only
the real photographers use, but
it is nothing like that.
But before we begin, I would
like you to go and
see episode number 5
by clicking here if
you have not already done
that, if you have
let's not waste any time and
dive straight into manual mode.
We can switch to the manual
mode by switching to M
on a Nikon or on a Canon.
As we have discussed in episode
5, the three settings
that make up a good
exposure are aperture, shutter
speed and ISO. So
let's take a look at
this frame and switch our mode to the manual mode.
The most important thing to note
here, is the exposure
value scale which comes
at the right hand side of the screen.
On some cameras, it might
also come at the bottom of the screen.
If the value is towards the
minus side, it means
that the scene is under
exposed, and if
it's towards the plus side,
it means that the scene is overexposed.
So what we need to
do, essentially, is to
make sure that the value
is at absolute zero which
will ensure that the scene
is properly exposed and we get a good photograph.
So here we see that we
are at one thirds of a
second at F8 and ISO
100 and we are
under-exposed by almost one and a half stop.
So the thing to do, is
to create a situation where the value is at zero.
So let's say I have
decided to shoot this picture
at F8 because I like the depth of field.
So I will now change my
shutter speed and make
the bar go towards zero
so that I get the perfect
exposure, and as
I slow down the shutter
speed, it goes towards
zero and I have the
perfect reading which is
F8 at one second.
Now let's say I want to
shoot this at F4,
because I want a shallower depth of field.
So I will increase the aperture
to F4, and as
you can see, the picture is over-exposed now.
So now I make the
shutter speed faster and get
it back again to zero,
so now I have a
value of F4 at 2.5 of a second.
So now let
us assume that I want
to shoot this picture at
a certain shutter speed, let's
say 120th of a second
because I feel that 1
by 2.5th of a second
is too slow and my
hand might shake, so once
I put it to 120th of
a second, I see
that, again, my picture
is underexposed, and now
since my lens is
F4 I cannot open
it any further, so the
only thing to do is
to increase the ISO to
the point that the value
again comes to zero,
which is at ISO 800.
Always remember, increase the
ISO last of all
because increasing the ISO
degrades the quality of the
photograph. That's all
for this episode. In the next
episode, we will take
a look as to how to
shoot in the program mode.
Now the program mode is not
a mode just for beginners,
it is an extremely advanced mode
which makes you capture
those moments which are just
not possible to capture in any other mode.
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