A PEEK A MORE IN DEPTH CAMERA SETTINGSMetering modes, histograms, focus modes, bracketing, and white balance

METERING MODES Matrix Metering - In this mode the camera attempts

to take into consideration everything in your frame. Spot Metering - This mode tells the camera to do

it’s metering from a very small ’spot’ in the scene.Spot Mode is a very useful mode for tricky lighting conditions where the whole scene is either darker or lighter than the point that you want to be exposed correctly.

Center Weighted - On the spectrum between overall metering and spot metering, like spot it takes light from one area, however the area is a little larger.

METERING MODES

HISTOGRAM Histograms are a very useful tool that many cameras offer their

users to help them get a quick summary of the tonal range present in any given image.

It graphs the tones in your image from black (on the left) to white (on the right).

The higher the graph at any given point the more pixels of that tone that are present in an image.

So a histogram with lots of dark pixels will be skewed to the left and one with lots of lighter tones will be skewed to the right.

Why use it? The small LCD display on your camera is not really big enough to give you an great review of a picture and you can often get home to find that you’ve over or under exposed an image. Checking the histogram can tell you this while you’re in a position to be able to adjust your settings and take another shot.

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FOCUSING MODES AF-C/ SERVO - good to use when photographing moving

objects. When your camera is set to AF-C and you focus on a moving subject, the focus will stay on the subject so long as your shutter button is held half way down. In other words, the camera will keep re-focusing as the subject moves.

AF-S/ ONE SHOT is good for photographing subjects that don't move, such as flowers or portraits etc. It locks the focus on the non moving object that you want to photograph. You can then recompose the shot and take the photograph.

AF-A/ AI is where the camera selects and goes between the previous two modes. If it thinks the subject you are photographing is stationary, then it will automatically use AF-S focus mode. If it picks up that the subject you're photographing is a moving subject, then it will automatically use AF-C focus mode.

TIP: practice using your camera in these different modes, and don’t let it select the focus points for you, select them yourself.

BRACKETING AND WHITE BALANCE

•Bracketing is simply a technique to make sure you get the right exposure, or a technique that can be used to create true HDR images. •White Balance is a huge part of what your pictures will look like. You can manipulate white balance to look like the coloring of the actual scene, or you can manipulate it to look better. Good white balance really just depends on what look you want.