Day Nine: Understanding the Rules of Shooting

The lesson for today in the 31 Days To A Better Photo covers the rules of shooting. It talks a lot about numbers...ISO, aperature, and shutter speed. There is more than one way to get a photo. Let's say I am shooting pictures of the boys and we are in the shade. I know that they are busy and to get the best photo I am going to have use a fast shutter. So, I set my camera to 1/2000s, but because my shutter is fast most likely my image will be dark. What needs to be done to correct this? I can open my lens with a wider aperature, and I can increase my ISO. But remember, the higher the ISO the more noise in the photo.

Vice versa, if I am taking still photos of plants outside on a sunny day, for example, I would reduce my ISO and slow my shutter down. Depending on how I want the picture to look, I might or might not mess with the aperature. Close ups of a bloom, I would keep my depth of field shallow. Pictures of trees, I would want a wide depth of field.

How do you know when you have your exposure correct??

Well, tomorrow I will talk about meters.

The boys are home, so here is your photos of the day. I interrupted them during the movie. I also threw in some of the Daddy, the Lug (Jet), and Miss Nosey Pants (Ruby Soo).

I love these guys!