Getting familiar with your camera settings
Getting familiar with your camera settings | ||
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The more features your digital camera has, the more you are likely to find yourself shooting with the wrong settings; that is, unless you know how to read the settings and you're compulsive about checking them before you shoot. There is a reason why I know this! A few years ago, I took photos at a friend's wedding, the day after I had shot still life photos inside a kitchen. Because of the incandescent lights in the kitchen, I had changed the white balance setting to incandescent. The next day; the wedding day, I shot with the incandescent light setting even though I was shooting outside in daylight. All the wedding photos had a horrible blue cast! The good news was that the images were easily fixed with Adobe Photoshop, and I was not the hired wedding photographer! Maybe, with this story in mind, and this technique, you won't have such an experience. The best way to avoid using the wrong settings is to learn where and how to read the current settings on your camera. Camera settings can be shown in more than one place. On the Canon PowerShot G2, they can be found on a display panel. You can check the exposure mode by looking at the exposure mode button. You change some of the less frequently changed settings via menus on the LCD monitor. You can view other settings when looking through the viewfinder. Because of the number of settings and the lack of space to display them, you will undoubtedly have to get familiar with quite a few icons. The time you spend learning where various settings are displayed and how to change them will be well worth the effort. Take a few minutes now and find out where you can read the settings on your camera. | ||