F-stop, apperatures, and shutter spead, oh my
In the midst of being my dissertation proposal’s bitch, I’ve decided to take up learning how to use my expensive camera (which I bought while being a bitch to my comprehensive exams, I see a theme). It’s truly a lovely thing to start adding depth to an already pleasing experience. I love taking pictures. I never feel full pride because most of my shots are on auto settings-so while I do pick the subject matter, my camera does all the work-almost sounds like a boyfriend:-), but I digress. I recently met someone foolish enough to agree to teach me how to use my camera. The smallest of tips have felt like revolutions in understanding. I can’t believe I’ve gone this long just on auto focus-sound familiar to any other processes of life? I have always wanted to take night pics but 1) haven’t had a tripod and 2) didn’t have a clue as to how to do so on my camera other than by turning the dial to the little dude with a moon over his shoulder (doesn’t really work, not sure why “they” added this setting other than to give false hope and generally be mean). But a few eves ago, I became a photographer of the night:-) It was awesome. I love taking pictures at night. I’m dying to take “candid” night pics of people in their brightly lit windows in their dark abodes. I’m pretty sure I’ll have to refrain from this as I could probably get arrested for such activities. I really need to practice what I’ve learned because I’m afraid that my memory is just about at capacity with all this silly dissertation shit:-(
August 19th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I’m right there with you.
The other night I went to a roller derby practice to try and refine the settings that I use when shooting their games. Low light + fast moving subjects = holy crap this is hard!
One of my friends there who likes to tease me a lot asked why I was having so many problems getting good pictures. I just showed her the back of my Nikon and said “You see how many controls there are here?” She blinked a couple of times and let it go.