Hi, my name is Doug McKinlay and your watching AdoramaTV. For the past 25 years
I’ve done a job I love. Working as a travel and reportage photographer. Today
we’re going to look at the technical aspect of reportage photography, how to plan a day’s shooting and
how to approach subjects in a non treating matter.
Adorama TV presents Stay Focused with Doug McKinlay.
Most good photography comes from good planning. It's all about preparedness.
From len's choice to having a spare batteries to having extra memory cards
and keeping your sensor nice and clean. For me that also means packing the
two-P’s.
Patience and perseverance because good pictures don't happen at the snap of a
finger.
So let's get started
So your looking for your shot an opportunity presents itself .Somehow
you fluff the technical side. You could have chosen the wrong lens, the wrong
aperture or the wrong shutter speed. So in order to get those great shots
we have to get to grips with the technical side of our cameras. The three main exposer modes
are aperture-priority,
shutter priority and manual. In aperture priority
the photographer chooses the F number and the camera choose the shutter speed.
In shutter priority the photographer choses the shutter speed
and the camera chooses the F number or the lens opening and manual
photographer choses both, lens opening and shutter speed. In this mode
the photographer has the most control. The two primary shooting modes are continuous and
one shot.
But for our purposes we're going to use continuous, its like a motor drive.
it gives us the opportunity to shoot many frames in a row. Hopefully within that
group of pictures one will be tax sharp.
Excuse me ladies, would you mind if I take a few pictures?
No not at all. Do you live around here?
I mean it's a little intimidating I know when someone shoves a camera
in your face but
it’s part my job.
One more. Look at me one more time.
Thank you. Very nice, very nice, thank you very much.
Robert Capa
a twentieth-century war photographer once said, if your pictures rant good enough
your not close enough and it’s something I firmly believe in. So throw out your inhibitions
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So I’ve finally found an interesting subject,
and by now we understand the camera mechanics a little better.
We've looked at shutter speeds, we've look at apertures
and we’ve looked at continuous shooting. So by now you think it's just a matter of
pressing the button.
However there are a couple other little things we have to look at.
ISO being one of them. We need to have a high enough ISO setting
in any given light to achieve a fast enough shutter speed to avoid any kinda blur in the
pictures.
Also you need to create a rapport with your subject.
You must create a relationship no matter how fleeting in order to get
those great pictures
because as soon as that rapport dies the pictures fall flat on there face.
Ten year waiting list it it? Next of kin has it
Well who are you passing it on to? One of my children but I dont know if they have the ethic.
Kids these days. That’s a great shot
but it can be improved. We have a great shot of a lady
with a really distracting background, a white van. People often forget the
backgrounds.
Arguably as important as your subject. In my opinion backgrounds can be the tricky part
of any image.
Sharp backgrounds can be confusing for the viewer. You don't really have a clear
idea where to look.
Whereas an intentionally blurred background with shallow depth of field
using a large aperture focuses veer on the part of the image the photographer wants to highlight.
Thank you for joining us today. I hope I've given you lot’s to think about. Not just on the
technical aspects of your camera but
also how to a plan to shoot and deal with subjects. You can also subscribe to AdoramaTV.
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