Photography Tips: How to find the right camera settings – think like a photographer

Posted on August 20, 2014 by ShutterBug

Course link – http://www.photographycourses.biz/blocks To find the right camera settings you have to start thinking like a photographer. Every image and situ…

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25 Responses to Photography Tips: How to find the right camera settings – think like a photographer

  1. Mike Browne says:
    August 20, 2014 at 7:16 am

    +Phil Booth Sorry i can’t reply direct to your comment. I think you need to
    look at your Google + settings. The shutter speed thing is a rough rule of
    thumb which will help prevent camera shake, it’s not hard and fast and will
    vary from person to person so it applies generally whatever sensor. IS
    generally lets you gain an extra stop slower – again it depends on how
    steady your hand is. have a look at my sharp images videos at
    http://www.photographycourses.biz/getting_sharp_images.html

  2. Chris Corey says:
    August 20, 2014 at 8:06 am

    Examples I think I would want but do not know what ranges to look for,
    f/stop, ISO, shutter speed. Do all dslr’s have bulb mode, can attach things
    like intervelometers and remote shutters (or is that sorta the same thing?)

  3. methanbreather says:
    August 20, 2014 at 8:17 am

    wow, you alway go very small on the aperture side.

    Shouldn’t the hyperfocal lenght take care of it?

  4. Eleazar Sunglao says:
    August 20, 2014 at 8:54 am

    Mr Browne,

    Thank you for posting your videos, they are very informative and helpful! I
    do have a question about strobes and off-sync lighting techniques. I ams
    self teaching myself on how to properly use external light set ups ( two
    point lighting etc..) and looking forward to doing portrait photography as
    another skill. I work primarily on manual all the time. I wanted to know,
    what would be a general rule of thumb of setting up my camera a long with
    triggering external flashes? Typically, I would shoot w/ 135mm Lens @ f8 or
    22 to really achieve that high sharpness. Yet, I still struggle with
    syncing it with the appropriate flash fills. I’m not sure if measuring the
    intensity of the light properly and wanted to find out if you could explain
    these techniques. THANK YOU!

  5. RickBSO says:
    August 20, 2014 at 9:27 am

    I am interested in purchasing my first digital camera, I cant decide
    between the Sony A7 and the A7R, from everything I saw on youtube I am
    inclined towards the A7, but my concern is the low pass filter, I don’t
    understand it, will it make my photographs not as sharp? Thank you.

  6. Jared Singleton says:
    August 20, 2014 at 10:23 am

    Hey Mike, have you thought about collaborating with other youtube
    photographers? Gavin Hoey and you would be awesome together. Have you ever
    met him?

  7. Sabrina Hill says:
    August 20, 2014 at 11:17 am

    I always enjoy your videos. You are just so sincere. Just today, I wrote a
    “how to”-article for photographing children – along the same theme – camera
    settings and approaches. 

  8. Andrew Grabowski says:
    August 20, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Hi Mike, just wanted to take the time to thank you for the time and effort
    to help others such as my self take a step back to think what to do to
    achieve what we want to frame. The advice, tips and the the way you make us
    feel involved is really good! So thank you

  9. Selim Lazen says:
    August 20, 2014 at 11:24 am

    useful tips as always Mike

  10. Shamel Gataje says:
    August 20, 2014 at 12:09 pm

    thank you Mr mike for the great videos

  11. Ed williams says:
    August 20, 2014 at 12:48 pm

    Thanks +Mike Browne, if taking a portrait from side-on is it best to focus
    on the closest eye to the camera or the one thats further away?

  12. perfectforehand says:
    August 20, 2014 at 12:52 pm

    Yet another excellent video Mike, well done. I’m planning on buying ”7
    building blocks of photography” this summer, just in time with purchasing
    my very first DSLR. By the way, is this also available as a physical DVD or
    is it only a digital download?

  13. Frank Flemming Jensen says:
    August 20, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    Mike Browne ! I watch SO many different photographers explaining how to
    improve your skills, but NOBODY is even close to be as intertaining and
    logically educational as you do it. Thank you VERY much!!!

  14. Matias Harina says:
    August 20, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    Hi Mike, i bought my first DSLR a couple of months ago and your videos have
    been extremely usefull! Greetings from Argentina

  15. Ryan Beazer says:
    August 20, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    Great video Mike. All your videos are a lot of help to me. Was that first
    version 70-200 you used 

  16. David Robertson says:
    August 20, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    Love the swans … right on ‘cue’ … cudos to the animal handler, and your
    videographer — doing a wonderful job. I enjoy your video lessons & even
    though my photography is limited to a fine point & shoot (Canon G15) you
    keep me sharp concerning the mechanics …. speaking of – I’ve got a shelf
    of “old” lenses left over from the old ‘film’ days, in particular my “old”
    Pentax-A zoom (70-200mm), and I’m wondering if it’s possible to “mount”
    lenses such as this on me old ‘point & shoot’, or yours for that matter?
    Probably not for all sort of ‘digital image’ reasons….. Anyone else with
    an answer re “mounting” lenses, please feel free to contribute.

  17. Svein Arne Grønnevik says:
    August 20, 2014 at 3:17 pm

    Thanks for another educational, no nonsense and entertaining video, Mike!
    :-)

  18. deepak sharma says:
    August 20, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    lovely video as usual. just wanted to ask if the wide angle lens was a
    sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6?

  19. Vernon Nash says:
    August 20, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    Thanks Mike … as always clear and to the point information delivered in a
    friendly and engaging manner.

  20. branthamal says:
    August 20, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    Congratulations Mike,
    You nailed it this time. Short, sweet and 100% pure gold.
    Your longer, more entertaining videos are wonderful but this one is like….
    “Here’s the essence of it all”. Eleven minutes and you have given the
    nucleus of taking pictures. I’m going to steer anyone who asks me about
    photography basics to this film. Hopefully appetites for more will be
    whetted and they’ll become ‘hooked on Mike’.
    (Didn’t even need to split your jeans like PJ Proby ;-)

  21. Roberto Binetti says:
    August 20, 2014 at 5:23 pm

    Thanks

  22. Angel Rosario says:
    August 20, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    Hey Mike, hello i’m in Florida and i’m a newbie on this and i watch a lot
    of your videos and they being teaching me a lot, i just want to point
    something specific on this video, there are a lot a goose just passing by
    when you were talking, but i think that is possible to make a shot with a
    wide angle lens when the goose were passing by and the background just a
    little bit blurry like an f6 or f8 just to see? Thanks

  23. Ed williams says:
    August 20, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    Is the idea to put the focus point on the person’s chest because the camera
    is at a angle so that the focus plane is touching the person’s eye?
    By the way your Photography videos are the best I’ve come across on the
    internet.

  24. Ed williams says:
    August 20, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    I had a problem when I took a picture of a person with all their body in
    the picture, I focused on the eyes but the legs were out of focus. I later
    found out that that the focus plane is perpendicular to the camera and I
    took the photo from a low position face on. How do I take the same photo
    from the same low position but get all of the person in focus

  25. Ed williams says:
    August 20, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    Great video, Mike! But I still have one thing I never know where to put my
    focus if my picture has two or more subjects in, plus do you always focus
    on the subject if you want a big depth of field?

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