entry-level digital SLR got loads and loads and loads exposure modes
pre-programmed into them but what do they do I mean really what do they do
inside to the camera what is so incredibly technical and complicated the
auto exposure mode have to do it for you
and what's the impact that well you can was a brilliant piece of equipment is
very very clever
but it has no soul has no passion it has no
creativity within itself it just has some pre-programmed parameters so
basically what you're doing is asking mister Spock of Star Trek
to take some totally unemotional images for you when you use those modes
so what do they do well let's have a quick look
entry-level DSLR as we have gonna have manual mode obviously
aperture-priority or aperture value shutter priority
time value and P mode now all of those give you a degree control for money was
here
everything the others giving you different levels I may films about
that already seen go and have a look
but the auto modes we've got obviously green
fully auto the cameras doing everything for you lightning strike with the line
for you telling the camera to switch
of the flash so let's say you got a nice light
the a there's not very much of it you may only use a tripod because what
qualities are the light in your shot
women in a half mode that for portraits we've got landscape mode mountain
we've got the flight baby modem not sure that is but we did look it up earlier
it's to do with photographing children who are on the move into running around
we've got sports mode we've got flower mode which is for macro or close-ups
and then we have night portrait mode
but what they actually doing
inside the camera this backtrack briefly woman in a half face
very sexist because let's suppose you wanna be a bloke
when a nice red hat i dont know any does that should have a bloke mode you blow
can have my portrait mode
most people don't want to have a soft fuzzy background going on in the back in
the picture
so if you put into portrait mode
is gonna set wider aperture for shallow with that the field
put into landscape mode would you want more answers on a postcard
most people want lots and lots and lots of debt the field
so that they got maximum sharpness in their image
baby mode we want a picture of baby in that don't you
it's kind of like a lot these modes overlap actually said this one is going
to be sorted
I guess there's some ideal parameters when the camera photographing kids that
are running around doing stuff
sports mode think
what do you want with the sports mode you wanna freeze the action dont you so
it's gonna set
faster shutter speed to enable at and a macro mode you that
feel gets quite small one good image quality so
is gonna set a middling kind of an aperture but I just take my word for it
next just a little test
and I'll run you through it but before we do something else which these modes do
is they play around with what's called you pick to control settings
that's to do with the processing the raw file into a jpeg
what it's gonna do with its gonna tweak colors is gonna do stuff like that
again it is a pretty good jobs for the average picture but you're not in control of
your photography
when it does it the other thing the exposure modes
there are only three things you have to play with
to do it yourself and that's your ISO you shutter speed and aperture
that's all I'm sure you can juggle three things okay you don't need to let the
camera do it for you
so i wanna stop on a up a little experiment here so we need something to photograph an eye to
something is dear to my heart any what we took a picture
nice pear I do love a juicy pear her
hmm
alright what im gonna do is
is set my shot up on the wall here , using that pub over there
in background so we got just something which you can see whether it's gonna be sharp
or it will be soft or not let's just start of
in the portrait mode now because at the
automated functions I tried this earlier
the camera case defaulting back to full autofocus when I try doing this
experiment the camera didn't know where to focus this is a really great
reason for doing things yourself
one minute it will focus on the pair,next minute it will focus on the pub
you see you're camera is an idiot you're the one who has to control it
so I'm going to manually focus
stick on manual focus im gonna manually focus on my pear
K my lovely lovely pear there it is that is nice and sharp
just there
im not gonna move the camera not do anything apart from change these modes and talk you
through
what's going to happen switch your camera on
mmm mean now when you want a portrait you want a wide
aperture that means a low F number and straightaway you can see on portrait mode
that is precisely what you've got you go wide aperture
let's just take that picture and that is going to make the background
go all soft you going to landscape mode
what do you want me should you landscape you generally speaking front to back sharpness
sharpness loads of it, well how will you achieve that?
exactly a small aperture lots of depth the field
simples isn't really and that's when the cameras doing
so when you put into landscape mode your camera let's have a look
so we flick from portrait to landscape there you go look at that
your F number has just increased dramatically to keep you
greater depth of field but at the same time the camera fiddle around with your
ISO to make the camera most sensitive
so your shutter speed is faster to compensate so you don't get camera
shake
in your image let's just take that picture
this lady walk pass ladies walk past i apologize.
with their lovely lunch down by the sea
hangon hang on, here we go ill just take it
yea so we got into landscape mode
and you can see you flick between those images we've got a soft background
and a sharp background there's also a change in the colors because
the camera is then messing around with color settings it processes the raw
into the Jpeg for you baby mode
actually have a hissy fit I have a lot those altruistic temperamental
temperamental whatever that means temperament ality mentality
that's the word so baby mode is gonna kind of trying give you a faster shutter
speed
so that you can catch the kids when they're running around but it's also gonna try
and give you a greater depth the failed because you know they're on the move it
hard to focus on them
and again to compensate that it's probably gonna jack up the ISO
little bit
so i switch from landscape mode
onto baby mode there you go you see how the apeture to become smaller
I'm guessing as to maintain that shutter speed im not really sure why it's done
that
II it's forced the flash to be on
automatic as opposed to off not quite sure that about let's just take that
picture anyway
so we can compare it so we look at it compared to the landscape one
you can see in the landscape one greater that the failed sharper
background
softer in the baby one
but he's not a soft as it was in the portrait one its somewhere between the
two
and the tones within the image or a little bit smoother
the colors a little bit softer let's just pop it into sports mode
you can see we're going from all the sudden
a middling average kind of a shutter speed
is open the aperture up a little bit and it shoved that shutter speed out through the
roof because he thinks you wanna capture fast-moving action
now the light hasn't changed here to what's it done to allow that faster
shutter speed think about it you got three exposure controls
ISO it will pump that ISO right eyes pimped out haha
so the cameras become super sensitive it can record the light and gave you that
fast shutter speed but your image quality
it's not gonna be quite a good because you can have noise and grain and
we take the picture there with on sports mode and I think you'll see
and we flick between them it is pretty similar to the one in portrait mode
but looking on the back at the camera here atleast it looks to me there's a little bit of
Noise is going on in there
macro mode we gonna want kinda fine grain arent we want
good image quality and as you get close to the summit at the field
gets a little bit smaller so I'm gonna guess
that when we go from sports to macro
gonna make my aperture a bit smaller for a bit more depth of the field there we go
notice how the shutter speeds dropped right down
that's because it slow with the ISO to give you better quality to give you nicer if
finer grained image
and it has made the aperture bit smaller to give you that little bit more that the field
middle aperture lenses happy getting its best image quality
and it will also be doing something in the Raw processing the picture control
stuff
to give you nice sort of subtle colors that's all stuff you can do
yourself you just walk into Lightroom or Photoshop
just do it your the creative person let me just take that one
macro mode
yes at the depth of field has increased a little bit because it made the aperture to go
down
a bit smaller just wanna see the difference in the colors yes so from
the sports mode to the macro mode they look just an inny bit more punchy I think
and finally under streetlight night portrait night what's that gonna do
so we flick from macro
to the night thing is its made your aperture wider
to give you a softer kinda background but is also probing to let more light in
i also noticed that is made the shutter speed leap higher
so that's telling me is pumping up the ISO to compensate for the fact
there's not much lighter and it doesn't need to get camera shake
just take that picture and see what it looks like
so I flick between them yeah this subtle differences in the colors are not quite
so good when you come up towards the the sort of the night photography mode one
that's because you camera is playing with those three things
is playing with your ISO and your aperture and your shutter speed
and that we've got those are the three balls of exposure you juggle with those
to get the result you want visually
because it's on an auto setting the camera is also doing the post-production
for you
and it may not be doing what you want it to do to question to ask yourself to ask yourself is do
you want the camera to take over
and do your photography for you do you really want to miss the spot taking
data but there's no heart no soul is not and you in it and you are the foundation
of your photography
you are the one is driving the camera is using the paint brushes you choosing
what's in the picture
you wanna take this a little bit further have a look at my digital photography
exposed
the movie is available on DVD or the download from the website is linked
underneath this film you watching on my channel on YouTube
go and check out guys because is gonna get you that first step
out old these auto modes say your understanding what you doing in the
and you start kick it you know
you start to create your own images you start yourself get inspired many to be
hungry for more
instead of possibly giving up with it anyway
auto modes the pretty good but I'd rather do it myself
just before you go guys I want to speak to you now if you are already taking a
bit more control of your photography and all
processing your own images may be using Lightroom on myself just taken a massive
leak from Lightroom 2 to Lightroom CC on this is a a big learning curve
for me is you know I'm not the most
computer savvy person in the world
but if wanna use lightroom CC to import my images from a camera
manage them with on on the computer and use it for workflow
then I'm gonna need a of training been talking to Serge Ramelli the pixel miester
about this and he is doing a little better training with me
now that conversation he was tell me about his new 2014
workflow course which is completely brilliant Now Serge is the go to man for this
kind of stuff
so invite him over here because I think it could be a value to you guys
to give me a minute of your time and let him tell you about it
Bonjour Mike and thank you for inviting me on your channel
hello guys I just want announce my new 2014 workflow course
out
it's my full workflow on using light 5 and photoshop CC
here is a little presentation that I did explaining what that is
and thank you again Mike
Bojana times I miss you I'm happy to announce that my new 2014 full complete
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last year I did a course which was to 78 videos about
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since then fight came out push ups she came out and I've also updated
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then I did about a year ago last year actually about seven to eight project
this from gonna shoot 20 project
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every single photo I'm a strong believer that more you practice
you retouching skill better you become every photo is unique every photo has
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all white balance is own the histogram
even so the workflow is kind of similar I really learned by watching people
retouching over and over and over so I that is why I did 20 projects
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so it's important so that you have the raw files you can you know also
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