Oh... Ahoj! This is Zdenka. In one of my past videos we talked about
the aperture priority mode and I think it's time to step it up a little bit.
Like little step.. you know let's just step it up all the way. Let's talk about the
manual mode. In today's video I have here Canon eos M50, let's go.
And if you are new, thank you for stopping by. My name is Zdenka Darula.
I work as a photographer since 2007. I make photo and video tutorials, tech
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subscribe button. So why should you really shoot in manual mode? Well, if you
have your camera set to the automatic mode, yes the camera will do the job for
you but it will calculate the best settings based on everything. You will
end up with the average snapshot. Let's face it. The camera doesn't have your
brain, it doesn't know that you want only this object sharp, everything else
blurry. It doesn't know that you wanted this object sharp everything else really
blurry like in motioin. It's just doesn't know and that's where manual mode comes in
very handy. In manual mode you can control completely everything and I know
it might be very scary at first to switch from the automatic mode to manual
but hey the faster you do it, the sooner you'll understand everything about
photography, so let's just grab the camera and turn the dial to M. I had to
turn around the Sun was really getting into my eyes.
Well in manual mode you're gonna be controlling three things. Those three
things are called the exposure triangle and it is aperture, shutter speed and ISO
and what it really means that there are three ways of letting the light into
your camera. First of all it is aperture then it is shutter speed, sometimes it can
be slow, sometimes it can be fast and the ISO which is sensor sensitivity to the
light. Once you get to the manual mode you will see whole bunch of numbers on
the screen. This is cameras light meter. When you get
the line aligned with 0 you will get perfect
exposed shot. If you want to achieve overexposed very bright photos then you
will go towards plus to the right. For underexposed images, very dark images, you
will go to the - to the left. Aperture is the hole inside of the lens.
It will change depending if you're gonna zoom in or zoom out. It's also called the
f-stop and what it means that the lower F number the lower f-stop, the more
lights you're getting into your lens, to your camera, the more bokeh you get into
the shot. That means you will also get less sharpness in the photo so only the
subject will be sharp everything else will be blurry. The higher the number, the
higher the f-stop, the less light you are getting into the lens, the more sharpness
you will get into the photo, the most bokeh you will see in your shots. So
let's look at the kit lens 15 to 45 millimeters. So the lowest f-stop is 3.5.
I would use it like right now I have it set to 3.5 because I want to be sharp
and everything else is blurry behind me. if I'm gonna be taking group shot of
people like family portrait and I have them in one straight line, then I'm gonna
be selecting F/5.6 because I want them everything I want everybody sharp in the
photos. The more people I'm gonna add the more lanes I'm gonna add, the bigger the
group, the higher I'm gonna go with the f-stop. I can go sometimes to 7 & 8 just
to make sure that everyone is nice and sharp. For landscape photos I like to go
F 7 8 all the way to 11 but Maxim i would go to F 16.
If you're shooting very well lit conditions like right now you don't
really have to worry as much about the f-stop but if you're gonna be shooting
in a very low light then you need to keep the aperture as low as possible, the
number as small as possible because you want to have the most light enter your
camera. By the way I made a very detailed video about the aperture aperture
priority mode. The link is here and also in the video description below so you
can watch it after this one. ISO is cameras sensitivity to the light. The
more light you will get like right now, the smaller the is all you will use. So
right now I'm using ISO 100 if it's not so bright and so sunny then you can use
ISO 200. The less light you will get the higher the ISO well get but with that
the higher ISO the more noise you will get in your photos, those little dots
which are not so nice, so you still want to make sure that we are keeping your
ISO pretty low. Indoors you might have to shoot at ISO 600 to 1500. During the
weddings, sometimes I even had to go all the way to 3200 but I was in a very very
dark church. Shutter speed is how fast your camera shutter will close and it
can be very fast and it can be very slow. It also depends how much light you want
the camera to enter and it's written as 1 slash specific number what it means that
the shutter is open for one slash number of a second. When I'm taking photo of an
object and lighting is pretty good, then I can keep it you know and one
sixtieth of a second no problem. My hands are steady enough to hold it and
not to have a blurry shot but what I'm taking photo over person who is moving
then you want to keep the shutter speed at least at 125th of a second even
faster when I have people entering the hole during wedding receptions and they
are you know kind of dancing moving very fast
I have usually shutter speed at
and you need to use very low shutter speed then you will need definitely a
tripod so anything below one sixtieth of a second I would recommend a tripod
bottom line slower shutter speed allows more light into the image but also
allows more blurry into your photos faster shutter speed allows less light
into your camera but it creates more sharpness in your images so these are
the basics when it comes to shooting in manual mode I'll hit the thumbs up
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will see you my friends in the next video. Cau... Ahoj...