Camera Settings I Use - 7 example images & settings explained (Nikon & Canon cameras featured)

now if you'd like to know what the camera settings were for each of these seven images don't go away hi Paul here from photo genius welcome to my channel where I like to post photography tutorials I share tips and tricks and do occasional gear reviews as well so if you're new please consider subscribing in this video what I want to do is focus on camera settings we're going to take a look at seven images that I've captured not necessarily with the same camera and I'm going to share with you the camera settings but I don't just want to share the camera settings I wanted to explain to you why I use those particular settings was it to achieve a particular look did I achieve the look and because I want you to be able to go and try this out for yourselves as well I'm going to show you how to make those changes I'm going to show you how to set it up on your camera as well no time to waste let's go into it now the first image we're going to take a look at is this one which is a picture of lightning striking over the brisbane skyline it's an image that i'm really really pleased with and it's an image i I remember particularly well because on this day I was actually running a street photography course here I'm here in Brisbane and so I had a small group of 6 people walking around the streets of Brisbane taking photos and I was using this camera which is the fujifilm x100t camera that I absolutely love and it's a perfect Street photography camera for various reasons it's nice and small and compact and I absolutely love it so this photo was actually taken with this Fujifilm camera but this picture could have been taken with a Canon Nikon Sony it doesn't matter so much about the camera it's the settings and the way in which you set the camera up and use the camera that's important so we got rained off on that day because of the storm so most of the people went home but two of us stay back to see every who capture some lightning images so we found ourselves a nice spot to take some photos and we popped the cameras onto tripods now let me tell you what camera settings are used ISO 200 aperture f9 shutter speed 20 seconds now let me explain those settings to you and then I'm going to show you how to set it up on your camera's ISO 200 now ISO keep it low the lower the number the cleaning your image will look sometimes you have to increase your ISO but on this occasion I didn't need to so I left my ISO and my default which is 200 shutter speed 20 seconds now that's a long time that means that when you press the shutter button to take a picture the shutter opens for 20 seconds now that's a long time but it's perfect for this type of photo because number one it was dark and I need to let more light into the camera and the longer the shutter is open the more light the camera will be able to recalled but also I'm trying to catch a lightning and I can't predict when it's going to go off so if you do a 20 second exposure and no lightning it doesn't matter you do another 20 second exposure and then another until you actually get it and sometimes you get lucky and while the shutter is open for 20 seconds you get one or two or maybe even three lightning strikes and I can look amazing now for the aperture I went for f9 that's a smaller aperture even though than numbers bigger f9 f11 around that type of ballpark is generally good for landscape type photography because you get a lot of sharpness for your image it's got a deeper or extended depth of field and a good way of doing this type of photo is to maybe not shoot for manual which is what I was doing a good way of doing this is to shoot using the shutter priority mode now this on your camera dial is either s or TV depending on what camera you've got let me show you how to set it up so I'm using a Nikon camera so I'm selecting s on the dial for shutter priority now in this video we're going to be talking about three things shutter aperture and ISO these are three ways in which you can control light these are collectively known as the exposure triangle now I have made separate videos on all three of these you will find links in the description below the video it's having the ability to slow the shutter down for a whole twenty seconds that allows me to take amazing photos at night like this one and also capture the lightning looking at the back of the camera the s confirms we in shutter priority mode over to the right as our ISO is already set to 200 but we can change this easily by using the I button going back to 200 and next we're gonna look at the shutter speed which is over on the left here now what we want to do is slow the shutter speed down turning the dial on the top rear of the camera darling to the left for a slower shutter speed we're looking for 20 seconds this is the number 20 followed by what looks like a quotation mark you'll see that as we do this the aperture in the middle is adjusted automatically by the camera that's the great thing about shutter priority mode now on a canon camera shutter priority is referred to as time value or TV shutter speed is to the left eye so to the right aperture if I press the shutter button is shown in the middle so the same layout is with the Nikon camera again dial in to the left the dial is on the top of the Canon camera you'll see the shutter speed on the Left changing I'm going to dial in 20 seconds and the aperture is automatically selected by the camera and we're ready to go now image number 2 is this one this is a picture of the story bridge which spans the Brisbane River just like picture number one this is also of course a nighttime photo and this was actually taken with the Canon 80 D which is the camera that I'm using to record my video it's a great camera and this was also shot using the standard 18 to 55 millimeter Kipling's so not a pro lens just the standard kit lens so that goes to show that you can take photos even with fairly standard kit now for this exposure this is another long exposure I went for a longer shutter speed than with the lightning shot this is a 30 second exposure the aperture this time was f10 and the ISO was again at 200 and what I really liked about this photo is the way the clouds are blurring it gives the picture a slightly surreal almost sort of painting type quality to it and that blur is of course movement because the shutter is open for third seconds anything that moves during that time will blur and in the case of this image it's the clouds being the most obvious thing but it's also the river surface so you can't really see waves or any sort of motion in the water it's all soft and blurry and this is quite I think quite a nice look so again the longer shutter speed because you're shooting at nighttime but because I've also wanted to get some motion in the image particularly with the clouds aperture f10 again a smaller aperture because that's great for landscape type photography and the ISO 200 let me show you how to set this one up and again we're going to look at shutter priority mode so with the previous image we shot at 20 seconds all we got to do now is extend that to 30 seconds by dialing to the left with the dial on the top of the Canon camera and we are ready to go moving onto the nikon same thing again we extend the shutter speed by using the doll on the rear of the camera the cameras looked after the aperture for us so we don't need to worry about that and you may notice that at the bottom of the screen it says subject is too dark largely this can be ignored on the Nikon cameras now this picture as you can see is a picture of somebody on a bike and what's interesting about this picture is none of it is actually very sharp there's a lot of blur in this image and for that reason some people don't like it I mean I quite like it but some people don't and that's fine that's what keeps photography like any art form interesting because it's subjective what I like about a picture the next person might not like so that is fine now the reason for the blurs I wanted to show movement and speed so here I'm using the classic panning technique which is a technique used by sports photographers to show movement and what you're doing here is you're panning or moving the camera in time with the subject so try and keep the subject to reasonably sharp but you're moving the camera in such a way that the background blurs now to achieve this you need a slower shutter speed so for this picture the shutter speed was 1/5 of a second so technically a slow shutter speed not nearly as long as for the previous 2 images but a slow shutter speeds us 1/5 of a second a pitcher was f6 that's a wide aperture because it was later in the day and I wanted to get more light into the camera and the ISO has gone up a little bit from my default width of 200 to 250 so ISO 250 aperture 5.6 shutter speed 1/5 of a second so because you're moving the camera really fast as the bike goes by the background blurs but because you're moving the camera in time with the subject you get the subject reasonably sharp the panning technique is pretty cool let me know in the comments below whether you like it let me show you how to do this one again for this one you can go manual but again shutter priorities are really cool mode to use having selected a low ISO all I've got to do on the Canon camera is dial to the right and I'm looking for one fifth of a second now I don't want to stop here because this is not point for half a second I keep going until I see one fifth of a second and the cameras looking after the aperture for me and of course moving on to the nikon camera the process is exactly the same dialing to the right until I get the shutter speed I want one fifth of a second this next image was taken a place called Coolangatta on the Gold Coast here in Australia if ever you come and visit check out cool and get on the Gold Coast beautiful beaches and very very popular with surfers on this particular day I've got up very early I was setting up the camera when it was dark so I wanted to get a really nice spot and what I'm trying to achieve in this picture of course is the the motion of the waves as they crash over the rocks but I don't want the waves to be sharp I wanted them to be blurry I was using a Nikon d300 for this image with a sigma 10 to 20 millimeter wide angle lens and of course because I'm doing a slow shutter speed shot the camera like some of the other photos have showed you today and the camera was on a tripod II really essential to get a tripod if you're doing long exposures for this image the exposure isn't actually that long it's just half a second so camera settings half a seconds and 0.5 seconds shutter speed aperture f-22 and ISO 100 so I'll drop the ISO from my usual default down to 100 so I don't get any digital noise half a second exposure to let some light into the camera and to not let too much light into the camera because the Sun was popping up over the horizon I've closed the aperture down to f-22 it's a picture I'm really really like I'm really proud of it and I think I struck gold on this particular day as well because I love the clouds coming up over the horizon as well okay so I've been talking a lot about shutter priority in this mode let me show you how I set this up using the manual mode on the camera with the Nikon in the manual mode we have control of every feature so the first thing we're going to do is dial to the left to slow the shutter speed down I'm selecting a shutter speed of half a second looking in the meter we're clearly overexposing so next we're going to go to the ISO and take that from 200 down to 100 checking the meter again still overexposed aperture is next holding the button at the top of the camera darling to the right will make the aperture smaller note the bigger number you can see that affecting the meter and once the meter is balanced we're ready to take our picture now on the Canon camera again in the manual mode first thing we're going to do is select a shutter speed of half a sec by dialing to the left nice and easy okay next thing we're going to do is check the meter it's overexposing so we're going to drop the iso from 200 to 100 check the meter once again still overexposing so we're now going to adjust the aperture holding the AV button dialing to the right and you can see this is affecting the exposure notice the bigger F number indicating the smaller aperture once the meter is balanced we're ready to take our picture next up is another sunrise photo this one taken just a few minutes from our office here on the Brisbane Bayside and this photo was taken with a Canon Rebel T 6 or 1300 D using the standard stock 18 to 55 millimeter lens now because it's early in the morning the light isn't too good again slightly slower shutter speed 140th of a second not super slow but still worth putting the camera on a tripod aperture F 13 and ISO 100 so you're getting the hang of it now hopefully ISO low so you don't get any digital noise ISO 100 °f 13 is a smaller aperture great for landscapes and the slower shutter speed 140th of a second helps just to let enough light into the camera the more that Sun comes up and the brighter it gets the faster the shutter speed would have to then go what I love about this photo is the gradual the graduation from blue through to orange on the horizon I think it's a pretty nice shot so on a canon camera in TV or shutter priority mode all you need to do is select the shutter speed 140th of a second aperture has looked after by the camera easy ready to go and repeating the same process for the nikon camera we're going to change the shutter speed to 144 a second by dialing to the right with the doll and you'll see the aperture is being adjusted automatically by the camera that once again is the beauty of shutter priority mode next image is clearly very different to the ones before it this is a sports image of the Brisbane Lions taken during a training session here in Brisbane with the Nikon z6 mirrorless camera and a 70 to 200 millimeter telephoto lens now this type of sports photo you don't want any blur unlike with the previous shots you want to capture detail and sharpness you want to record the action so you're using a much faster shutter speed camera settings here were shutter speed 1 mm of a second aperture F 2 point 8 and iso 640 so is so for me default is usually 200 but here I've had to bump the is up a bit higher to 640 aperture F 2 point a so I was lucky because the lens I was using has this really wide aperture and that helps me get more light down the lens and into the camera and that's just as well because I'm not allowing much time for the light to enter the camera I'm choosing a fast shutter speed 1 mm for a second because that's the sort of shutter speed that will freeze this movement but because the shutter opens or closes now so quickly unlike with the previous shots I'm not giving the camera much time to record light so I'm making up for that by opening the aperture really wide to 2.8 and furthermore because it was a bit of a dull afternoon I'm bumping the ISO up to 640 okay those are the settings let me show you how to set this one up on the Nikon said 6 we've already set the ISO to 640 we need to increase the shutter speed now to 1 mm for a second apertures being looked after by the camera if 2.8 is the maximum aperture 640 is own 1 mm for a second now my final image is another sports photo but I've decided to include a second sports photo because the previous photo was taken with a Nikon z6 and a really fancy 70 to 200 millimeter lens so quite an expensive bit of kit whereas this photo is taken with nickens entry-level d 3500 so i wanted to include an image taken with a cheaper more entry-level camera to show you that you can get really good results again as I often say in my videos it's not always about the gear it's how you use it the camera settings for this image same as the previous one shutter speed 1 mm for a second aperture F 7.1 and ISO 1600 so same shutter speed as with the previous photo aperture 7.1 that is not as wide as the previous photo which explains why in this image the ISO has had to go up higher to 1600 now with this image because the ISO is much higher there is some digital noise in the image it does look a little bit grainy but when you consider this image is taken with an entry-level camera I think it really looks pretty cool so camera settings for this one let me show you so as I mentioned the final image was shot on this camera the Nikon d40 500 in shutter priority I start by increasing the shutter speed up to 1 mm for a second and get into trouble straight away because as you can see the light meter tells us that we get under expose so as I did on the day I'm going to increase the ISO to 1600 and that's it we are now balanced and ready to shoot and finally with the Canon camera in the TV or shutter priority mode once again we increase the shutter speed to 1/2 a thousandth of a second press the shutter button and the flashing f-number tells us we're in trouble so we've got to find a way get more line to the camera go to the ISO increase it at 1600 F number stops flashing markers in the middle and the light meter we're ready to go so I hope you've enjoyed this video and we've picked up some tips and hopefully you're inspired to go and try some of these techniques for yourself if you enjoyed this video please give us a thumbs up consider subscribing to my channel and don't forget to leave your comments questions and suggestions down below I hope see again sometime soon see ya bye

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Keywords: best camera settings, photography hacks, photography basics, photography for beginners, camera tutorial, Nikon camera settings, canon camera settings, DSLR camera, photography, Nikon z6, nikon d3500, Canon EOS T7, how to photography lightning, sports photography settings, landscape photography tips, what shutter speed to use, shutter priority mode, iso aperture shutter speed tutorial

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Length: 17min 59sec (1079 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 17 2020