Vote: Camera setting Challenge

March 15th, 2013

Thank you everyone who participated in the camera settings challenge. The purpose of these challenges is to learn new settings, improve ones we already know. We encourage others to offer opinions & suggestions on how to improve & learn.

The Photographic Triangle

1.Aperture - how much light the lens lets into the camera
2.Shutter Speed – how fast the sensor is exposed to the light
3.ISO – the sensitivity of the sensor to light

You will be stooting in manual and working with: ISO, Shutter speed, and Aperture.

Here is the original thread:http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/16792/camera-setting-challenge-22

Please vote one the setting they used not just the photo.
Here they are in no particular order:

1@taffy

Mothers Day Challenge

The subject today comes from Mull-Over-March word challenge of mother/card. I came across a card my mom had sent me, enclosing the home-made card she had saved that I had made for her in what she thinks was about 1951, when I was in Pre-K. It was the first Mother’s Day card I had made for her. I varied ISO, aperture, and shutter speed to compare the outcomes. I used 250, 500, and 800 ISO, F9 and 14, and 1/10, 1/30, and 1/60 shutter speed. It was useful to see how, with the same item, the DOF field could be manipulated, as well as the brightness and clarity of the print. The two in the photo represent the two ‘winners.’ Others in the pool of photos were over- or underexposed. The ‘winner’ on the top was clearest and had the deepest DOF where all print could be read. It used a narrower aperture (F14), the medial shutter speed (1/30) and highest ISO (800). The ‘winner’ on the bottom, for softer look and shallower DOF used a lower ISO (500), a wider aperture, but still not that wide (F9), and somewhat faster shutter speed (1/60). All settings, however, were in a middle range. The lens was 105mm macro, camera on a tripod. BTW, to see the difference in clarity, probably needs to be viewed larger size.

2@sassyinma

The Pot

Love my pot on my cast iron stove - it means warmth on cold nights!

By now I have really been using the ISO to get better pics from low light situations. This way I can keep the shutter time down to avoid movement.
Exposure:0.25 sec (10/40)
Aperture:f/5.6
ISO Speed:3200

3@northy

camera settings - it's all about CONTROL

For the camera settings challenge:
http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/16792/camera-setting-challenge-22

One of the main reasons i started on 365 was because, being a control-freak, i really felt it was time i got to understand my camera well enough to feel like i was, y'know, actually in control... understanding the relationship between aperture (or f/stop), ISO and shutterspeed is pretty much critical to this endeavour...

Anyhoo, not sure this was the best choice of subjects for this particular exercise, but thought it kind of interesting none-the-less... you'll pretty much need to view this large to see the settings...

Btw, i had intended to shoot in JPEG but forgot to switch from RAW... so in post i just did the bare minimum of processing and applied the same settings to all shots...

First off, i held the aperture constant at f/11... top level is ISO-100, middle is ISO-200 and bottom is ISO-400... going across the top i used shutterspeeds 1/200s, 1/100s, 1/50s, and 1/10s...

As i was using a tripod and this is a still object, i would never need to go over 100-ISO which is why i say this may not have been the best exercise here...

but which shutterspeed i would use would depend on the effect i was going for... something high key-ish would need a longer shutterspeed than 1/10 at ISO-100... altho' i kinda like the light in the 1/10s at ISO-400...

for a moodier feel i would likely choose a shutterspeed between 1/100 and 1/50 and boost the light bits in processing...

boosting the ISO would only be important if i was trying to catch a moving target, or if i was shooting handheld...

:)

4@darylo

Black Bean and Mint Salad

I'm attending a dinner party tonight, and I'm taking one of my favorite dishes: Black Bean, Mint, and Feta Salad--it's so full of flavor and color, and it's very simple to make--I'll put the recipe at the end for folks who don't want to talk 'camera.' :)

This photo is all manual and I was able to make adjustments to my focal point (yes, I really am a terrible newbie, but thanks to advice from 365er @foxsparrow on another photo, I located the focal adjustment area). I am indoors with very little natural light (not taking on artificial lighting yet), so I used a high ISO, as much window light as possible, and a white bowl. The Fstop was 7.1, shutter 1/100, and ISO 3200 (using a high ISO is new to me). My goal was to accentuate the mint but be able to see well the other items in the bowl. I think the white of the feta does blanche out a little too much, and I wonder if that is a shutterspeed or f/stop issue--seems overexposed? I'm entering this one in csc-22--I really am interested in feedback on how to improve the "triangle" I'm working with.

5@frida

Two circles and one line

Sooc and fully manual but for a crop. Shot in black and white.

@stuckinoz

Had another go Janelle, for the two circles as we said :) Wanted to do this last night actually but it got late and you could not see the 'line'. I got my 50 mm lens as a present for Christmas from hubby and have been using it almost exclusively ever since. My own challenge to me, to get to use it better. I love it!

This is my favourite object in our house, a reading lamp, very big and bending over 'my corner' :) To take this I lay on the floor, to the surprise of my family - they shook their heads and moved on to have breakfast!

For the Camera settings challenge too, it was a darkish day so set ISO 800, f5 and Exposure 1/60 sec.