Jared Polin, froknowsphotos.com.
And this is 3 Shots or Less where I go into different situations and scenarios to try
to get the perfect exposure in only three shots.
Let's see what I can do this time with this bubblehead.
In this scenario, my goal is to blow out the background while doing a very tight headshot
of this bubble head right here.
Now when I say blow out the background, some people get angry.
I personally mean get that nice out of focus and [indiscernible] [0:00:42] that a lot of
you guys want to get.
In this case, I'm using the Nikon D3300 with a 35 millimeter 1.8 DX which is pretty inexpensive
for a 1.8 lens.
So because I want to and get out of focus background, I'm going to shoot at a wider
aperture, somewhere around F2.
We'll call it F2.
Now I haven't taken any test shots yet because I want to guess the exposure and get it right
in three shots or less.
So let's look at this.
I'm going to go to F2 because this lens lets me go to F2.
Now keep in mind, this is not an expensive lens, if you're on Canon, you can get a 51.8,
on Nikon you got this 351.8 runs about 200 bucks and change.
So we'll have two.
I'm going to keep my, I'm going to put my shutter speed at let's say 1/500th of a second
and I want my ISO to be 800.
So my 800 ISO, F2 at 1/500th of a second.
Let's take the first shot.
Make sure I get the bubblehead in there.
I mean, my, my hair pick.
Boom.
Let's take a look at it and it's not that far off.
It's a little over exposed, meaning it's a little too bright.
I'm letting too much light in.
So now we have to think about what do I need to change on the second shot to bring the
exposure down to almost being perfect.
So what are the three things?
Shutter speed, aperture, ISO.
In this case, we know we want the aperture to stay at F2 because that was the challenge
to get the background out of focus.
I can do two things now.
I can go ahead and change my ISO which may be too bright, it's too high so I could lower
it or I could bump my shutter speed up even higher than 1/500.
In this case, let's bring the ISO down.
I think it's two stops.
It should get us pretty darn close.
So remember, change one thing at a time.
So this time I went from 800 ISO to 200 ISO.
So here we go, let's go ahead and take a picture, same picture, second shot.
Let's see how we did.
Now it's a little under exposed.
So two stops was too far.
This camera only lets me do full stop increments for ISO.
So the less than I can go ahead and change right here at 1/500 of a second.
I need to let a little bit more light in, so I'm going to go from 1/500th of a second
down to 1/320th of a second, leaving F2 there and leaving ISO 200 and we should be just
about there with the perfect exposure after three shots.
So I want to remind you that this series is not about getting the best composed image,
it's about getting the proper exposure in 3 Shots or Less.
So here we go, less shot and let's see how do we do.
That is pretty darn good.
That looks like it's right on.
Very good job, Jared.
Good job, bubblehead.
Give me a high-five.
So that's what I was able to do in three shots by playing with the exposure triangle and
changing one thing at a time.
Yes, this is a challenge, but I know that every one of you guys can go out there, set
your camera to manual and in three shots or less get the perfect exposure or pretty damn
darn close.
Remember that, when you shoot at all, be pretty darn close because once you get your exposure
locked in then you can focus on shooting until the light situation changes.
Now if you have a scenario or a situation you'd like to throw at me to see if I can
go ahead and do it, go ahead and leave a comment down below with what that scenario and situation
is and maybe we'll pick yours to go and make the perfect exposure in three shots or less.
So thank you, guys, very much for watching.
Jared Polin, froknowsphoto.com.
See ya.