swansinflight on Nostr: oh and yes; I forced myself to learn everything manual, because thats what "real ...
oh and yes; I forced myself to learn everything manual, because thats what "real photographers" do, right? Well, not always, but it did force me to climb that steep learning curve of what shutter speed I want for certain effects.
Doing sports I am always wide open anyway to maximise shutter speed, but manually changing shutter speed makes me note at what lower speed I need to push ISO up. I also discovered that on my camera the quality (noise) takes a dip between ISO200 and up to 800 where it is slightly better again before dropping once more; so I tend to shoot at 200 where possible, then jump straight to 800, and as the sun goes down I might jump straight to 3200 if I know that under these lights I'll be at that anyway later - so that I have less changes in editing later - changing ISO does change my colours, I have found.
And years on and I still tend to just shoot full manual because then I have zero surprises - it just does what I tell it.
I may have gotten way too nerdy and looked into this too far at some point haha.
CC: Photorat (nprofile…qkpl) Kevin Gamin (nprofile…gs6p)
Doing sports I am always wide open anyway to maximise shutter speed, but manually changing shutter speed makes me note at what lower speed I need to push ISO up. I also discovered that on my camera the quality (noise) takes a dip between ISO200 and up to 800 where it is slightly better again before dropping once more; so I tend to shoot at 200 where possible, then jump straight to 800, and as the sun goes down I might jump straight to 3200 if I know that under these lights I'll be at that anyway later - so that I have less changes in editing later - changing ISO does change my colours, I have found.
And years on and I still tend to just shoot full manual because then I have zero surprises - it just does what I tell it.
I may have gotten way too nerdy and looked into this too far at some point haha.
CC: Photorat (nprofile…qkpl) Kevin Gamin (nprofile…gs6p)