 Quintin Smith |
Learning to set up camer F-stop and shutter speed How can I learn how to set-up my digital camera shutter speed and apture setting so they will match and allow me to take portaits and sport pictures in extremely low light setting without built-in of hotshoe flash?
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Christopher A. Vedros |
You really need to read your camera's manual to learn how to operate it. Look for a section on how to read the information in your viewfinder. Learn how to adjust the ISO setting on your camera. In low light, you will probably need to use a higher ISO. I should point out, though, that pictures are made with light. In an extremely low-light setting, you will be extremely limited in what you can do.
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Ariel Lepor |
http://scrattyphotography.wordpress.com/camera-settings/ has info on ISO, shutter speed and aperture, and how they are used. http://home.comcast.net/~jonsachs/Expose.exe is a program for Pocket PCs (which I use) and it is excellent for figuring out the exposure settings in all kinds of situations.
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John Rhodes |
Quintin, Chris is right. The real answer is that you may not be able to take sports pictures in low light without flash. Your built-in flash is pretty worthless, so an external, hot-shoe mounted flash is in order. However, these have their limitations in how far they will provide sufficient lighting. You might provide more info. I haven't figured out which sports are played in low light. John
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Ariel Lepor |
Yeah, sports demand high speed shutter which you can't use in low light. A sport like high-school football may be played when it is not so light, so the best you could do is set the widest aperture, highest ISO, and let the shutter go from there, maybe even a little faster than "proper". Then, you could brighten it in post-processing, but even then your results are going to be grainy, and probably pretty blurry.
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