 Tonya Cozart |
shutter and aperture control ok, I may sound ignorant here, but I am going for it anyway. I am practicing with shutter and aperture control for motion and DOF. Right now, specifically shutter for motion. I understand that to blur something that is moving to show it is moving, you use a slow shutter and to show speed by blurring the background you use a slow shutter and pan the object. I am trying to photograph motion for an assignment I have, and the wind is blowing today so I thought I would get our willow tree blowing in the wind,...I cannot do it. When I set my shutter to 1/30, or even 1/15, I have tried even slower, my camera pics a large aperture(s mode, nikon d50) such as f4 and my photo is way over exposed. Shouldnt my camera pick a smaller aperture like f16 or f22? If I go into manual mode and set my shutter at 1/30 and my aperture at f22 I get way better exposure, but it is still not right. It is not so bright outside right now and fairly cloudy. When I try this indoors on my ceiling fan, I am getting the same thing, but the camera is telling me there is not enough light, to use flash, then it does not get the blur for motion. I am inclined ot think it is a setting in my camera that I am missing, but I don't know. I did take it off auto white balance and it seemed to help some, but no matter what I do, in s mode the aperture will not go smaller than f5.6. My lens is f3.5-5.6, and it seems to be staying in that range when choosing. ...am I just crazy, stupid or missing this concept all together?
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Tonya Cozart |
well, turns out I am stupid (she says crawling in a hole) I took some pics on auto and then repeated those settings in manual and then looked at what the camera said on the settings, turns out I had the exposure set to overexpose....must have been an accident when I was playing around with buttons...glad I found it though, I thought I was losing it.....sorry for the post
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Bob Cammarata |
...Best case scenario: When attempting to be creative, turn off all of the automated features and shoot in full-manual.
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