A good question: are there a lot of rules for taking pictures. Yes and no. Good answer right? Not. Rules can help us get started and guide us through to get what we want. They can make us better because the rules make us think about how our picture looks and what it could look like. But sometimes you throw out the rules. The rule that I believe is number ONE the Biggy the first most important gotta do! Get the picture. If you don’t get the picture nothing else matters. I have lost a gaxillion shots because I was trying to compose it right or get the best depth of field etc. When things happen quickly set your camera to automatic and as high an ISO as you need (can) and shoot, shoot, shoot. Shoot lots of frames and don’t get in too close. You can always crop. It sure is work to put in something that is not there – lots of Photoshop and that may not work.
I went out to a park in our neighborhood to get photos of the snow that had just fallen it was great! As I was walking down the hill with my arms full of camera gear 1 Doe and 2 fawns came trotting up the valley. They saw me and I saw them. One of the fawns stopped about 30 feet from me. We all just stood there looking at one another. We stood looking at each other, not moving for what seemed like an eternity but actually was probably 5 seconds. I very slowly removed my camera from the bag and raised it to get a shot of the fawn nearest me. Then the mother jumped and left. The fawns went after her. The shot I got is attached along with one of the good shots of the area. I would rather have had the photo of a fawn. If my camera had been set for fast moving objects I may have got the shot.
Here’s a personal thought. Keep your camera for something that moves fast and you can always reset it for your slow shots. Slow shots you have a lot of time to do things. But when things happen fast it is over before you realize what was going on.
I went out to a park in our neighborhood to get photos of the snow that had just fallen it was great! As I was walking down the hill with my arms full of camera gear 1 Doe and 2 fawns came trotting up the valley. They saw me and I saw them. One of the fawns stopped about 30 feet from me. We all just stood there looking at one another. We stood looking at each other, not moving for what seemed like an eternity but actually was probably 5 seconds. I very slowly removed my camera from the bag and raised it to get a shot of the fawn nearest me. Then the mother jumped and left. The fawns went after her. The shot I got is attached along with one of the good shots of the area. I would rather have had the photo of a fawn. If my camera had been set for fast moving objects I may have got the shot.
Here’s a personal thought. Keep your camera for something that moves fast and you can always reset it for your slow shots. Slow shots you have a lot of time to do things. But when things happen fast it is over before you realize what was going on.
The missed fawn
and the nice landscape.
I had 1/2 of a second to get the fawn and all day to get the landscape.
Have fun and enjoy,
bernie
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