Get Your Camera Off 'Auto

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GET YOUR CAMERA !OFF “AUTO”

with WICS-MEFIB!The Mnemonic Key

that Unlocks The Potential of your

Digital Camera

Paul Schatzkin paul@cohesionarts.com

/driver49 #artcampnoauto

Photoshop, ca. 1974

Don’t look back, he’s gaining on us!

A face only a mother could love…

It’s Tough JobBut somebody has to do it

A “Startup” before Startups Were Cool

What were you doing when YOU were 14 years old?

Only 10 New Episodes A Year?Absolute proof that THERE IS NO GOD.

Go ahead, Ask me,

“what’s that book about?”

It’s about 600 pages…

As seen in “The DaVinci Code”

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www.TheJoyofMakingMusic.com

www.TheJoyofMakingMusic.com

WICS-MEFIBSeriously?

Yeah.Seriously.

Pet Peeve What’s wrong with this

picture?

Pet Peeve Corrected.

Look like you know what you are doing…

(even if you don’t…yet.)

Hallelujah

WICS-MEFIB

• White Balance

• ISO

• Camera Mode

• Shutter Mode

• Meter Mode

• Exposure Compensation

• Focus / Fill Flash

• Image Quality / Image Stabilization

• Bracketing

Different types of light have different

color temperatures and color cast

!White Balance adjusts

for these variations.

White Balance

White Balance

Daylight Tungsten

White Balance

DaylightTungsten

The Three VariablesEverything Is A Trade-Off

ISO

• Sets the sensitivity of the sensor

• 1 of 3 factors that determine exposure value (EV)

• Each x2 = 1 “STOP”

• Trade off between speed and detail/noise

Higher ISO = NOISE

Camera Mode• Program

• Shutter-Preferred

• Aperture-Preffered

• Manual

• Forget the others

Camera Mode

• Program

Camera Mode

!

• Shutter-Preferred

Shutter Speed Freezes or Blurs Motion

Shutter Speed Freezes or Blurs Motion

Camera Mode

!

• Aperture-Preffered

The bigger the number the smaller the hole

!go figger…

ApertureDetermines Depth of Field

ApertureDetermines Depth of Field

Camera Mode

• Manual

(Forget the others)

Camera Mode

• Manual

Look for the +/-

button to switch btw

shutter speed and

f/stop

Shutter Mode

“Motor Drive” - ca. 1976

Nikon

Canon

Meter Mode

• Matrix / Evaluative

• Center Weighted

• Spot

Exposure Compensation

Focus Settings

• Auto Focus Or Manual ?

• Auto Single

• Auto Continuous

Fill Flash

Image Quality

-V-

The Great Debate

Why Not Both?

Image Stabilization

For Hand-Holding ONLY

Bracketing

HDRHigh Dynamic Range

Rosslyn In The Stars !May, 2013

• White Balance: AUTO

• ISO: 200-400

• Camera Mode: Shutter @ 1/125

• Shutter Mode: Single

• Meter Mode: Martix (Evaluative)

• Exposure Compensation: +/- 0

• Focus: AF-S / Fill Flash: On, -1 Stop

• Image Quality: RAW + JPEG Med/Norm

Image Stabilization: Hand On, Tripod OFF

• Bracketing - OFF

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Operating A Camera Is Easy

Paul Schatzkin aka driver49

!

cohesionarts.com paul@cohesionarts.com

It Just Takes a Lifetimeto Learn Photography

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