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I found some useful acronyms, more for beginners, that I've started using and they seem to prove helpful.
None of these are mine...! I got them from the podcast SCL.
W - White balance: check it's correct for the situations you are photographing in (or shoot RAW)
I - ISO: Ensure it's not left on a high (or low) ISO from a previous shoot (I've been caught out by this a few time and it hurts!)
F - Focus: is it set to the correct focus (single, continuous, manual?), and check manual/auto focus is correctly set
E - Exposure: if you use aperture priority most often, set it to this mode. Check that exposure comensation hasn't been left + or - from a previous shoot.
To avoid tunnel vision I use the following. I do find when I go out, I often see just what's in front of me. I've now started to look down to see if anything is on the gound, or I kneel down - most imprrtantly to me is to look behind me!
L - Look
U - Up
L - Look
D - Down
L - Look
A - ALL
A - Around
When taking photographs or, for example, a landscape:
E - Entirety: Photograph a wide angle of the lanscape
D - Detail: Then, look at the details: shadows from trees, clouds in the sky, any animals in the frame
F - Focal length: shoot wide angle, shoot zoom - zoom to compress the scene.
A - Angle: if you're taking a photograph of a tree, for example, shoot landscape and potrait mode. Shoot while standing up or lay down under the tree and photograph upwards
T - Time: time of day you shoot: the light available at different times of day will produce different photographs: shadows for example.
As I said, none are mine and are likely to be most useful to beginners, lime me.
Cheers.
None of these are mine...! I got them from the podcast SCL.
W - White balance: check it's correct for the situations you are photographing in (or shoot RAW)
I - ISO: Ensure it's not left on a high (or low) ISO from a previous shoot (I've been caught out by this a few time and it hurts!)
F - Focus: is it set to the correct focus (single, continuous, manual?), and check manual/auto focus is correctly set
E - Exposure: if you use aperture priority most often, set it to this mode. Check that exposure comensation hasn't been left + or - from a previous shoot.
To avoid tunnel vision I use the following. I do find when I go out, I often see just what's in front of me. I've now started to look down to see if anything is on the gound, or I kneel down - most imprrtantly to me is to look behind me!
L - Look
U - Up
L - Look
D - Down
L - Look
A - ALL
A - Around
When taking photographs or, for example, a landscape:
E - Entirety: Photograph a wide angle of the lanscape
D - Detail: Then, look at the details: shadows from trees, clouds in the sky, any animals in the frame
F - Focal length: shoot wide angle, shoot zoom - zoom to compress the scene.
A - Angle: if you're taking a photograph of a tree, for example, shoot landscape and potrait mode. Shoot while standing up or lay down under the tree and photograph upwards
T - Time: time of day you shoot: the light available at different times of day will produce different photographs: shadows for example.
As I said, none are mine and are likely to be most useful to beginners, lime me.
Cheers.
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