I’m going to find myself in Norfolk later this week and intend to spend one of the days tramping around the perimeter of Marham. Thanks to the advice of the good folks on here, and the homework that I have done on the relationship between ISO sensitivity, shutter speed, and aperture sizes I’m thinking of coming off auto mode and making some decisions for myself for the first time. The forecast for Thursday (the intended day) seems to be overcast so things may be a bit gloomy…In order to keep the graininess down which spoiled the shots from my last gloomy day out I intend to keep the ISO down (200?) and I would be still tempted to keep the shutter speed up (to avoid blurring for approach shots) which would mean a larger aperture. So should I go for the aperture priority setting on the camera and let it decide the shutter speed? Would this be the correct decision in this instance?
By: Wessex Fan - 13th August 2007 at 20:34
To be honest you have no such thing as a right answer to your question, it is always a matter of playing off shutter speed against aperture, or to put it another way speed against depth of field. Even then, if the light is bad you may well have to open the aperture more than you would like!
The problem is you have so many variables, the subject, the background, the aperture, the speed; all will make a difference to the result!
If the day is dull with a lot of cloud, try for pictures with some ground based background, unless that is you have the change of a good close-up, in this case try to get as fast a shutter speed as is possible!
Regards
Eric
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August 13, 2007 at 7:48 pm