Photography Tips & Tutorials. Macro Photography Tips for Point and Shoot Digital Cameras. A Post By: Darren Rowse Much has been written on the topic of Macro photography for those photographers fortunate enough to own a DSLR with macro lenses – but what about if you own a compact point and shoot camera? Can you get great macro shots too? While the results achievable with a point and shoot camera in macro mode probably won’t compare with a DSLR with a purpose built macro lens I’ve still seen some remarkably good shots with compact cameras (all three shots in this post were taken with compact cameras). Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of yours: Get free tips like this each week via our email newsletter Select Macro Mode – this is a fairly obvious first step but I’m always surprised by how many digital camera owners haven’t explored the shooting modes that their camera has.
Use a Tripod – in macro photography a tripod can be particularly useful, even if you’re just shooting with a compact camera. PS: I’ve used the term ‘macro photography fairly loosely here. ISO Settings in Digital Photography. Using Manual Mode: Exposure Lesson #4. A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson This is the third in a series of four articles about exposure by Andrew S Gibson – author of Understanding Exposure: Perfect Exposure on your EOS camera. You can read the first lesson, which explored the reasons for using program, aperture priority and shutter priority modes, the second lesson, which explained why your camera’s meter gets exposure wrong, and the third lesson, which looked at your camera’s metering modes.
In my last article I explained that evaluative metering (also known as matrix or multi-segment metering) is the most advanced built-in metering system that camera manufacturers have yet to come up with. However, despite its sophistication, evaluative metering mode can still get the exposure incorrect. In theory, if the ambient light levels are steady, the camera should return the same exposure reading no matter how you frame the subject, right? The above photo shows a situation where this can happen. Portraits Portable flash Landscape photography. Introduction to Shutter Speed in Digital Photography. Aperture and Shutter Priority Modes. Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at different elements of exposure and how to move out of the ‘Auto’ mode on your digital camera. We’ve looked at Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO and have discovered what each of them is and what impact changing them will have on your images.
Now that we’ve looked at the theory of how changing these elements impacts an image I’d like to move into how to use them by examining two shooting modes that many digital have on them that allow you to take a step away from the automatic settings that you might be spending a lot of time in. The two shooting modes are Aperture Priority Mode and Shutter Priority Mode. A Quick Reviser We’re looked at how the three elements of the exposure triangle impact one another. Priority Modes Aperture and Shutter Priority modes are really semi-manual (or semi-automatic) modes.
Aperture Priority Mode (often it has a symbol of ‘A’ or Av’ to indicate it’s selected) When would you use Aperture Priority Mode? Shutter Priority Mode.