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Setting the exposure for the waterfall shot

Setting the exposure for the waterfall shot

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Setting the exposure for the waterfall shot

The first step in finding the proper exposure, is choosing the proper aperture. What we want is a tag sharp image, from front to back. I'm going to photograph today an aperture priority mode. So, we're going to select the aperture and the camera is going to meter the scene and give us the shot speed. I'm going to choose an aperture of F16. F16 is going to give me depth to feel. So that the leaves and the foreground are sharp and the trees in the background are sharp as well. I'm not going to choose F by six because that's too shallow a depth of field I won't have everything in focus and I don't need to choose F22 because that's going to give me a little bit of defraction. It's asking for more depth of field than I need. Sixty is going to be a nice number for me here. So, at f16, at ISO 100, I'm going to start at my base ISO. The camera reads it and tells me my exposure is 3.2 seconds. That's a really long exposure. Why is that? Well, for one, we polarized the lens, which has darkened…

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