The high levels of noise in these photos made them look awful.
HELICON FOCUS STUDENT ISO
I moved people about to get a pleasing grouping, checked exposure and focus carefully, and shot a series of photos – all of them at the ISO 1,600 setting I had used for the boy-and-cicada photos. A week later I carefully set my camera on a tripod to take a family portrait at a birthday gathering in Shenandoah National Park. High ISO settings were not the D200’s strong suit, but it worked well enough for the purpose. It was twilight, so I cranked up the ISO setting on my Nikon D200 to take a close up with his hand and the cicada in good focus, and his face slightly out of focus behind. One evening our neighbor’s young son appeared with a large cicada sitting on the back of his hand. Anytime you pick up your camera to start shooting, be sure to verify that you did, indeed, previously restore the default settings. If you change settings for a particular subject within a session, make sure you reset to defaults before you move to a different subject. Lesson One: At the end of every photography session don’t put your camera away until you’ve checked to make sure that all settings have been returned to your desired defaults. Learning from someone else’s mistakes, after all, is a less trying approach than learning from your own. Given my apparent talent for this sort of learning process, I thought I might share some of my hard-won photography lessons, in the hope that others might avoid repeating them. Since that time I’ve been blessed with many other mistakes or oversights that have been comparably informative.
HELICON FOCUS STUDENT HOW TO
Along with my considerable mortification, I gained some useful insight about how to be functionally organized when working in the dark room. My faculty adviser was kind, and there was some other film from the event that had not yet been developed, so it wasn’t a total loss. Then, like a total fool, I picked up the fixer first, poured it in, and ruined all the film. Assigned the task of developing a tank of 4×5 inch negatives, I wanted to make sure I got it right – so I set up individual beakers of developer, stop bath, and fixer, pre-measured, to be sure I had everything ready. As a 15-year-old, freshman high school student in 1960 I was excited to work as a photographer on the school yearbook. The old axiom that we should learn from our mistakes is sound, although sometimes those lessons can be a bit on the painful side.
0 kommentar(er)
