From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)
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Hands-on with program mode
From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)
Hands-on with program mode
- So I've left the studio. I've come out here to this really cool farm in the hills above Santa Barbara, to just walk you through some kind of real world examples of shooting in Program Mode, and shooting with flies. So, things are pretty simple for you right now. There's a lot of stuff you need to remember, but my main concern, shooting in Program Mode right now, is going to be just controlling exposure, making sure that things aren't overexposing, if I want to, getting the under or overexposure that I want for aesthetic reasons. Of course, I'm worried about camera shake. Now, there is another exposure factor that we haven't talked about yet, that we're going to get to in Part Two of this course, and that's depth of field. Depth of field is something that is controlled by aperture, and it controls how deep the focus is in your image. If you've ever seen a portrait where the background is really soft and blurry, that's because there's shallow depth of field in that portrait. Depth of…
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