Tomorrow, Monday January 15th begins Week 3 of the challenge, and the theme for this week is:
Technical: Full Manual While the camera often determines shutter speed and aperture for the photographer, it doesn't know your creative intent. This week, challenge yourself to assume creative control over the camera by using full manual mode. Select a subject where varying the aperture and / or shutter speed helps enhance the composition and visual qualities of the image.
About the Technical category:
Technical Aptitude is just as important as creative inspiration in photography. This year's technical category is primarily focused on in camera processes, however, there will be some post processing techniques included.
Tag: 52wc-2018-w3 - use this tag when you’re uploading your images (also see the challenge page here for other tags), and do feel free to share your photos here on the thread.
All are welcome to join this challenge – see our original discussion thread which has a list of themes, dates and tags for the year here
The 52 Week Challenge has been created by Dale Foshe and the wonderful community at Dogwood Photography – please do take the time to click through for full information about this and previous year’s challenges, more tags and ways to share on various social media platforms, and more info about the challenge’s creators. I’ve been in touch with Dale to let him know that we’re following along here on 365 and he’s happy to have us join in. Theme and category descriptions and instructions come directly from the challenge page here
Each Sunday evening, I’ll be posting a reminder of the coming week’s theme - if you’d like to be notified when these are posted, drop me a comment below so that I can tag you.
Okay, can I ask a really dumb question. I never use Full Manual. I usually use A or S. However, in working in full manual, I did pretty good inside. However, trying today to take one outside, I got a completely blank white screen. Where do I start to correct this? Thanks.
@henrir, your question is not so dumb, but I will offer a truly dumb-dumb response. I had the same problem yesterday with A mode. I found I had set the exposure compensation to "+5", so it was over-exposed. I would have thought Full Manual wouldn't do this, but...? Extreme over-exposure?
@henrir Yes, I would guess that you were over exposed. One or all three of your points on the "exposure triangle" (ISO, aperture, shutter speed) will need to be adjusted. Bring your ISO down (on outside shoots I always try to keep this as close to 100 as possible). Close your aperture (higher number) and increase your shutter speed. You will want to look at the light meter in your view finder and try and get that in the center. Here is a good article on beginning to use manual mode Shooting in Manual Mode
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It’s week 3, and it’s time to get technical…
Tomorrow, Monday January 15th begins Week 3 of the challenge, and the theme for this week is:
Technical: Full Manual
While the camera often determines shutter speed and aperture for the photographer, it doesn't know your creative intent. This week, challenge yourself to assume creative control over the camera by using full manual mode. Select a subject where varying the aperture and / or shutter speed helps enhance the composition and visual qualities of the image.
About the Technical category:
Technical Aptitude is just as important as creative inspiration in photography. This year's technical category is primarily focused on in camera processes, however, there will be some post processing techniques included.
Tag: 52wc-2018-w3 - use this tag when you’re uploading your images (also see the challenge page here for other tags), and do feel free to share your photos here on the thread.
Images tagged for Week 3 can be seen here
All are welcome to join this challenge – see our original discussion thread which has a list of themes, dates and tags for the year here
The 52 Week Challenge has been created by Dale Foshe and the wonderful community at Dogwood Photography – please do take the time to click through for full information about this and previous year’s challenges, more tags and ways to share on various social media platforms, and more info about the challenge’s creators. I’ve been in touch with Dale to let him know that we’re following along here on 365 and he’s happy to have us join in. Theme and category descriptions and instructions come directly from the challenge page here
Each Sunday evening, I’ll be posting a reminder of the coming week’s theme - if you’d like to be notified when these are posted, drop me a comment below so that I can tag you.
Have fun 😊