Hey, if you are like me, you're very passionate
about photography, and perhaps you, like me, well you're always looking for
ways to just double, triple, quadruple, your output of amazing images on a daily
basis, if not a weekly basis.
That's what passion is all about. How can I increase production of amazing shots?
Hi, I'm Bryan Petersen
and we are watching AdoramaTV. AdoramaTV presents You Keep Shooting with Bryan Peterson.
I am Bryan Petersen, the author of Understanding Exposure and Bryan
Petersen's Field guide to Understanding Photography. I'm here in downtown Chicago,
I've got my Nikon D800e and my 16mm to 35mm wide angle lens, photographing
the Chicago River and the Chicago skyline. Now what makes this interesting,
in two respects, number one is what aperture would be a good choice for a
shot like this? and I will tell you it's classic who cares? If you are familiar with my book
'Understanding Exposure' that means 8, 9, 10 or 11. These are what I call critical apertures. They
produce the greatest sharpness, greatest contrast, greatest clarity, yet they don't give
you the maximum depth of field that we sometimes
need, and they certainly don't give you the singular theme
isolation zero depth of field that we need. So because there is no real depth
of field concerns, I go yeah, who cares? When I'm saying who cares what apertures I use,
who cares about the depth of field? That's a great opportunity to use 8, 9, 10 or 11.
So with that in mind and the camera in manual mode, I'll simply move up take
a reading off the sky.
At f8 I get a reading with 200 ISO of 3.2 seconds.
Let's take a look at that first photograph and see what you think.
Ithink you'll agree well it's kind of nice.. skyline shot..
Take a look also it is also a horizontal, how do we increase production of that?
Well in other words what else can we do to add another nice image to the inventory, real simple as I
often see when's the best time to shoot a vertical, right after the horizontal
and clearly in this instance this is definitely the time to be shooting a
vertical. We got a wonderful vertical opportunity in this photograph there is it.
Look at those two side-by-side, already we've doubled our production.
But what I'm really suggesting that you do if you want to double your production.
It's simply this, something that is so obvious it's so easy to do yet most people don't
even consider it.
And here is that answer, you get up before sunrise, and you come out here and you shoot the
predawn sky, sun rise, I didn't know there was such at thing. Yes there is, and it's called
pre-dawn sunrise! In this particular case. Most of you on the other hand are
getting up at that hour, you're shaving or you're showering or shampoo, or
making up your face, because you have to go to work.
But listen that's great, I love those wonderful excuse's why you can't do sunrise
in the winter months.
But in the summer months
in northern hemisphere,
the summer months which would be December, January, February in the
southern hemisphere.
The sun is getting up really early sometimes 4.30 or 5 o clock. Sometimes
3 o clock, sometimes 2 o clock, depending on where you live.
So you can surely get up an hour before your normal everyday routine, and get out here and do
some shooting. Regardless of what kind of day you're having at working you can always say...
you know what?
I'm going to have a great day, because I got some good shots before I went to work
this morning. Just something to think about. So that's how you double your output. wait until
next time this is Bryan Peterson saying
You Keep Shooting.
Do you want great looking prints at low-cost? Be sure to visit our easy to use online printing service.
AdoramaPix has professionals who treat your images with the utmost care that you can
count on for quick turnaround on photos cards or albums use AdoramaPix.com