Technology & Social Media Camera help needed

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  1. The Y-man

    The Y-man Moderator Staff Member

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    If you want to take something but have a blurry background, the auto setting might give you an "out of the box" everything in focus (huge depth of field) - like taking on a mobile phone (smartphone apertures are small by nature). So you need to manually eith set a wider aperture (and get the camera to compensate for the greater light coming in (i.e. shorter shutter speed, lower ISO), or you can set the fast shutter to force a wider aperture, or do both (in full manual mode)

    See the apple and nectarine tree flowers I posted above - it's done on a wide aperture to blur the background

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    Where those flowers?
     
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    Post #5 of this thread

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    Was your iso 100?

    So for that flower pic did you have a wider aperture but the rest on auto?
     
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    Just discovered my exposure meter. -3 to +3. 9 being properly exposed. Cool little bugger!
     
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    If the speed of light is a constant, why do we have fast lenses? :confused:
     
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    Because they're attached fast to the camera.
     
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    Actually I stand corrected!! Looks like the E-M10 just went and did its own thing full auto bahaha :D

    The two close up flowers were done at:
    f/8 1/250 sec, ISO-200, 49 mm

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    I thought it was for translight warp factors

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  10. geoffw

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    You have a few exposure settings on your camera.
    P - programmed automatic. This is basically the point an shoot mode, which will be fine for a majority of your photos
    Av - Aperture priority. This allows you to set the aperture for the effect you want - like the wide aperture for the flower photo.
    Tv - Shutter speed. You set the shutter speed you want - like very fast for high speed like a car racing, or very slow for deliberate blurring of movement.
    M - for full manual.
     
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  11. Sackie

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    Having alot of fun with this camera and photography course. Weeeel worth the money this course. Trying to learn my camera and take better composed pictures. Then try to throw in some of the technical tricks for more specific shots. Will post some pics soon for critique.
     
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    Just ordered the 50mm 1.8 STM lens. Not satisfied with my kit 4.0-5.6. Getting sucked in fast to this addiction...:oops:
     
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    Don't cameras come with a standard focal length lens anymore??? :confused:
     
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    Yeah on this one the kit lens. 55mm 4-5.6 aperture. I want 1.8 bay-be! :oops::D
     
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    The 50mm lense is great.. makes you think about composition more as its a fixed length..
    I dont use it as much as i would like
     
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    I thought you probably would be going that way, just not that fast.

    Be careful. You could find yourself getting sucked into big costs very quickly.

    Even an f1.4 lens
    50mm 1.8 vs. 1.4 (It's NOT What you Expect)!
     
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  17. Sackie

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    For fun I was looking at the Cannon 500mm f4 lens:D:D:eek:
     
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    Don't do it.

    Cannon is a gun. Canon is a camera company. ;-)
     
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    Haha:oops:
     
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    Some first ultra newbie pics. Plan to take alot more soon. The night shots were hard to get clear...just not enough light at the time of evening I went and the lens doesn't go less than 4 aperture so YouTube clips said will be hard to get it less dark unless you use a diffent lens . Cant wait for my 1.8, 50mm lens to arrive. Any feedback for this ultra newbie appreciated . Some one was saying you never really want to go less than ISO 1600 at night. Is that a hard fact or can it be broken?

    This one was just playing around with the aperture and shutter speed to get a blurred image but clearer background . Shutter 1/50, aperture f22, ISO 200.
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    These taken around 6pm at quite a dark park. F 5.6, 1/60, ISO 12800, 55mm.
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    F 5.6, 1/60, ISO 4000, 55mm
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