Hello, and welcome back to GMax Studios.
Over the past few episodes, we
have been discussing about how to
shoot in Aperture Priority
Mode, Shutter Priority Mode, and even in the Manual Mode.
In today's episode, we shall
take a look as to how
to shoot in the Program Mode.
To switch to
the Program Mode on a
Nikon, or on a Canon,
we have to switch to the P Mode.
Now let's see what happens when we switch to the P Mode.
The camera itself chooses the
best setting for the
scene, in terms of
Shutter Speed, and Aperture.
Now most people think that shooting
in the Program Mode is just
for big nuts, and it's
not actually true, because the
Program Mode, is a very
powerful Mode in which the
camera takes all the decisions
related to Aperture and
Shutter Speed and you as
photographer, focus on the
two most important things in
photography. One which is
focus and the other
one which is your composition.
Now the Program Mode has an
extremely powerful setting called
the Flexible Program Mode.
It is denoted by a star
that appears next to the
P when you enter the Flexible Programming Mode.
To get into the Flexible
Program Mode all you
have to do is turn the
dial while in the program Mode that's all.
What the Flexible Program Mode does
that it locks the exposure
value, it locks the
exposure of the setting and
you are free to change
your Aperture or your
Shutter Speed and your exposure
value will not changed.
Now that is an extremely
powerful thing to have at
tip of your fingertips because you
can in the moment decide
whether you want to shoot the
scene at a wider
Aperture or at a faster Shutter Speed.
So let's enter the Flexible
Program Mode by turning the
dial and we will
see a star appear
right next to the P
when we turn the dial. And
if we keep turning the dial
in one direction we will
see that the Shutter
Speed becomes faster and faster
without the exposure changing
as you can see from the exposure meter.
And finally we arrived at
F1.4 which is the
maximum Aperture on my
lens at 140th of
a second which is exactly
the same reading which was
there at the manual settings at
the beginning of the previous video clip.
Now lets see what happens when we
turn the dial in the opposite direction.
The Shutter Speed becomes slower
and slower and the Aperture
keeps closing down in order
to compensate for the Shutter
becoming slower. So here it
is, F11 at 1.3
seconds. We usually
use the P of Program Mode
when we don't have time to
fiddle around with the settings
and time to take decisions
regarding whether to shoot in
the Aperture Priority Mode or
on Shutter Priority Mode and
we cannot afford to miss
the shot.
I usually don't shoot in
the Program Mode, but what
I try and do is when
I keep my camera in the
bag, I switch it to the Program Mode.
So in that case, if I
need to take my camera out
and shoot something at a
moments notice I know that my camera is ready.
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In the next episode we will
talk about White Balance and
I promise to make
it really, really, really simple for you.
Until then, bye bye.