Tim challenge me to compose 12 shots (like in olden days of film) using only manual settings (aagghhh!),not to look at the light meter and positively no chimping. Oh and monochrome too.
I spent a lovely couple of hours with @4rky, showing her some of my favourite parts of Chi (and fitting in a delicious lunch too).
Whilst 4rky was clicking away with abandon, I was a lot more circumspect and took care and time. The LCD screen was reversed so I couldn't use it dial in any settings. HOWEVER as my collage of ten shots shows, I forgot to change the settings on more than one occasion.
Tim this is a brilliant challenge, I really struggled with setting the values through the view finder, it's much easier using the LCD screen.
@tdaug80 What a challenging challenge. At the start of the day it was dull and wet, so I dialled in ISO 400, but when I met @4rky the sun was splitting the paving slabs and ultra bright.
I didn't use the LCD screen at all, so I didn't get any prompts to change settings, and as the collage shows none are massterpieces.
I am not pleased with any of them, but am going to do this exercise again, but with the LCD screen on (I won't chimp though!)
The shot on my main screen is my favourite of all my shots, but I think that's probably a fluke that the light and settings worked out!!
THANK YOU, I learnt a lot from this, and am looking forwards to seeing your version as I know you like to do the challenges you set.
@kali66 thank you Kali!! I've heard of sunny 16 rule, NEVER understood it. Read the DPS link, too many numbers but I'm going to print it out and highlight bits and then dial in settings and practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCbePKkivZ8 this guy explains it simply, basically you set your iso like you would if you had film in the camera, set your shutter speed to 1/iso eg. if its sunny outside you might choose iso 200 and set shutter speed to 1/200 of a second and then adjust your f-stop depending how much light there is, f16 if its brightly sunny and so on as he describes here. this gets you thinking , best to start outdoors on a sunny day to learn it, but being digital, if you go in a dark church for instance you can set your iso to a higher number and vary the other things in ratio to that ...
I'm impressed. I did not shoot manually when I shot film and have really only started shooting manually. @kali66 Your tips are very helpful. I'd like to bookmark the sitesfor future reference but can't seem to bring them up.
@randystreat oh, the links work for me. but you can search via title on youtube
1. How to: Read light using basic daylight exposure (sunny 16 rule)
2. Sunny f16 Rule by John Shaw
@kali66 oh thank you Kali, I'll open on my laptop and bookmark. I think it'll just take practice to get it into my head. Also, should take mum's Rolleiflex out on a sunny day!! @randystreat I shot manually with my SLR but had no idea what I was doing so my arty pharty shots fakled and I never knew why!!
@momamo a walk around s beautiful, small, city to try different genres, thank you
@30pics4jackiesdiamond This is indeed a difficult challenge. When I did it, before, I came up with 2 or 3 shots that I liked out of my "roll" of 24 exposure. Several shots were complete disasters. Getting the exposure right in the shade was especially difficult. I think you did quite well. As I mentioned in the challenge, it is the journey that is important, not so much the destination. It gets you to put more thought into your choice of camera settings.
September 26th, 2019
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I didn't use the LCD screen at all, so I didn't get any prompts to change settings, and as the collage shows none are massterpieces.
I am not pleased with any of them, but am going to do this exercise again, but with the LCD screen on (I won't chimp though!)
The shot on my main screen is my favourite of all my shots, but I think that's probably a fluke that the light and settings worked out!!
THANK YOU, I learnt a lot from this, and am looking forwards to seeing your version as I know you like to do the challenges you set.
@kali66 Your tips are very helpful. I'd like to bookmark the sitesfor future reference but can't seem to bring them up.
1. How to: Read light using basic daylight exposure (sunny 16 rule)
2. Sunny f16 Rule by John Shaw
@randystreat I shot manually with my SLR but had no idea what I was doing so my arty pharty shots fakled and I never knew why!!
@momamo a walk around s beautiful, small, city to try different genres, thank you
Will definitely be checking out the links from @kali66 too :)