manual settings for shooting a photo at sunset

My manual settings: ISO – 320 (evening light, starting to get a bit dark, needed ISO up just a bit, but didn’t want picture to be too bright) aperture – 4.0 (wanted to capture all four of them in focus when they weren’t on the same plane, referring to depth of field) shutter speed –…

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how to take a family portrait on a bright sunny day…

It’s a bright sunny morning, 10:00am with the lovely bright summer sun. So, how do you take a photograph of a family outdoors without having everything blown out super bright and leaving way too many dark circles under everyone’s eyes? Well, here’s one shot that’s in the sun, not shade and here are my settings.…

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workshop question: what camera equipment would you buy first?

We had an awesome photography workshop today. It was all about learning how to use your fancy camera on manual (more details here). It was so much fun. Well, anyways, I thought I would share my favorite question of the day because I thought it would be quite applicable to all of you out there.…

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manual camera settings in evening light

Lovely evening lighting… especially summer light… how how i love you. :) Here are my manual settings for this shot: ISO –160 (evening, yes, but the sun is pretty bright still) shutter speed – 1/320 aperture – 4.0 (two little people spaced a bit apart and I’m wanting to get them both pretty sharp in…

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