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UaeExile

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Quick portrait of my son playing with his new train :)

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Lovely shot Adam, he looks so contented (y)

Looks like the train drivers had a really good morning :beer: :D
 
That's a cracker, the driver adds to it for me. Maybe makes it feel real rather than staged. The perfect lighting and backdrop was just fortunate ;)
 
One of those photo's that will end up in an album that gets presented to your son on his 18th or 21st Birthday as a look back at his life. Lovely Capture Adam.
 
rusticblonde said:
Hi

First of all, great shot. Can I ask what type of set up you had for this shot? Ie, camera settings and lighting?
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Hi Kirsty,

Nothing exciting going on here. The inlaws have a huge bay window that floods the living room with nice soft light early in the morning as the sun rises. All I did was place my son in it, put my camera in aperture priority set to 2.8 and framed the shot. As you can probably tell I made an effort to get down low and use the trees to frame him.

I had to check LR but other settings were a shutter speed of 1/125 and ISO of 500. Normally I pay no attention to anything other than aperture - unless I'm shooting fast moving subjects or in conditions where I know I'm going to be pushing ISO higher than I'm comfortable with..... But those situations are few and far between.
 
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UaeExile said:
Hi Kirsty,

Nothing exciting going on here. The inlaws have a huge bay window that floods the living room with nice soft light early in the morning as the sun rises. All I did was place my son in it, put my camera in aperture priority set to 2.8 and framed the shot. As you can probably tell I made an effort to get down low and use the trees to frame him.

I had to check LR but other settings were a shutter speed of 1/125 and ISO of 500. Normally I pay no attention to anything other than aperture - unless I'm shooting fast moving subjects or in conditions where I know I'm going to be pushing ISO higher than I'm comfortable with..... But those situations are few and far between.
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Hi @UaeExile thanks for the brilliant feedback. On this then do you tend to shoot Aperture priority rather than manual? I can honestly say ive never used this mode, purely because i wanted to stick to manual as much as possible so i could learn how everything worked together, but im looking to play with the different things I have available :)
 
rusticblonde said:
Hi @UaeExile thanks for the brilliant feedback. On this then do you tend to shoot Aperture priority rather than manual? I can honestly say ive never used this mode, purely because i wanted to stick to manual as much as possible so i could learn how everything worked together, but im looking to play with the different things I have available :)
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No worries Kirsty.

I've been shooting professionally for just over a year and I shoot almost exclusively in aperture priority. Literally 99.9% of the time. I dip into manual every so often but that's only in very specific circumstances when I have time on my side. I shoot a wide wide range of subjects too - so it's not like what I shoot is suited to that mode - more that aperture priority is suited to so many different shooting scenarios.

Obviously there's nothing wrong with shooting manual, just don't see it as a holy grail, point scoring exercise. I know plenty of bloody good professionals who sometimes shoot in full Auto as long as they get the shot they need.
 
UaeExile said:
No worries Kirsty.

I've been shooting professionally for just over a year and I shoot almost exclusively in aperture priority. Literally 99.9% of the time. I dip into manual every so often but that's only in very specific circumstances when I have time on my side. I shoot a wide wide range of subjects too - so it's not like what I shoot is suited to that mode - more that aperture priority is suited to so many different shooting scenarios.

Obviously there's nothing wrong with shooting manual, just don't see it as a holy grail, point scoring exercise. I know plenty of bloody good professionals who sometimes shoot in full Auto as long as they get the shot they need.
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Extremely good points there. I didnt know if it was a case that I would be shunned for using a specific setting lol!!! :)
 
rusticblonde said:
Extremely good points there. I didnt know if it was a case that I would be shunned for using a specific setting lol!!! :)
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Absolutely not. No one cares.

The only thing to bare in mind is that if you're shooting for a client - and you come across a difficult lighting situation - you need to know how to overcome it, no matter what. Not getting the shot because you simply didn't know how is a horrible feeling (I've been there!). So knowing how to tweak your settings is really important; i was just making the point that most of the time, aperture priority is plenty for most people (y)
 
UaeExile said:
Absolutely not. No one cares.

The only thing to bare in mind is that if you're shooting for a client - and you come across a difficult lighting situation - you need to know how to overcome it, no matter what. Not getting the shot because you simply didn't know how is a horrible feeling (I've been there!). So knowing how to tweak your settings is really important; i was just making the point that most of the time, aperture priority is plenty for most people (y)
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Thanks for the sound advice UaeExile :)
 
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