Comments on: Planting an Amaryllis http://www.raggedhand.com/2009/01/planting-an-amaryllis/ Defacing the beautiful since 2008 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phillybits http://www.raggedhand.com/2009/01/planting-an-amaryllis/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Phillybits Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:37:19 +0000 http://www.raggedhand.com/?p=71#comment-19 Andrew, you were asking me about why I was using Aperture Priority the other day while shooting the Mummers. It was pretty much just experimentation with the camera but another thing about Av is that it can allow you to really help control the DoF more. If you're taking landscape pictures where you want the entire scene in focus, go for a small aperture. If you want sharp foreground images with an out of focus background (like several of my Mummer shots), open the lens up more. With the Av setting, you can pretty much set and forget and hope the camera does a good job managing the other settings to properly expose the shot. Andrew, you were asking me about why I was using Aperture Priority the other day while shooting the Mummers. It was pretty much just experimentation with the camera but another thing about Av is that it can allow you to really help control the DoF more.

If you’re taking landscape pictures where you want the entire scene in focus, go for a small aperture. If you want sharp foreground images with an out of focus background (like several of my Mummer shots), open the lens up more.

With the Av setting, you can pretty much set and forget and hope the camera does a good job managing the other settings to properly expose the shot.

]]> By: C H Paquette http://www.raggedhand.com/2009/01/planting-an-amaryllis/comment-page-1/#comment-18 C H Paquette Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:34:54 +0000 http://www.raggedhand.com/?p=71#comment-18 lol... some of my cameras don't have any options at all..... just a shutter button. lol… some of my cameras don’t have any options at all….. just a shutter button.

]]> By: admin http://www.raggedhand.com/2009/01/planting-an-amaryllis/comment-page-1/#comment-17 admin Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:51:04 +0000 http://www.raggedhand.com/?p=71#comment-17 I gotta take it one knob at a time, Chris. Moving off Auto was a big enough step! And anyway some of your cameras don't have an Auto option do they? I gotta take it one knob at a time, Chris. Moving off Auto was a big enough step! And anyway some of your cameras don’t have an Auto option do they?

]]> By: Mary http://www.raggedhand.com/2009/01/planting-an-amaryllis/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Mary Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:42:51 +0000 http://www.raggedhand.com/?p=71#comment-14 i swear by it too! AV all the way! i swear by it too! AV all the way!

]]> By: C H Paquette http://www.raggedhand.com/2009/01/planting-an-amaryllis/comment-page-1/#comment-13 C H Paquette Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:28:37 +0000 http://www.raggedhand.com/?p=71#comment-13 a friend of mine swears by Aperture Priority....uses it all the time. I am a full manual guy, but I tend to lose fast shots that way fiddling with the dials. a friend of mine swears by Aperture Priority….uses it all the time. I am a full manual guy, but I tend to lose fast shots that way fiddling with the dials.

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