How to Start Shooting in Manual Mode | Photography for Beginners

this is a nikon in 2035 millimeter film camera  i bought this when i was 16 years old and it   is the same camera that i taught myself  photography with and i was sitting there   and i was thinking about it when i pulled this  thing out of storage and i was like you know   we should really talk about shooting manual what's  up y'all welcome back to my channel i'm chris   palmer and today we are going to be talking about  the three basic things that you need to know to   start shooting manual today get your cameras off  of the little green auto button and start taking   your photography to the next level first thing  that we're going to be talking about is aperture   aperture is how much light is let in through the  lens of your camera to the back of your camera   you probably have heard the terms f-stops now  that is how aperture is controlled so you'll   probably hear like f 1.4 1.8 2.8 5.6 or f 8 10 11  12 22 whatever you get the point what that refers   to is the opening within the lens where aperture  gets to be a little confusing is that the smaller   the number say like 1.4 or a 2.8 the larger  the opening in the lens so that means it lets   a lot of light in so when you hear like open your  aperture all the way that's what that's referring   to take it to a 1.4 or a 2.8 the lowest aperture  on your lens to let as much light as you possibly   can in now on the other side of that if you're  wanting to let less light in you're going to go   up to the higher numbers like f10 f11 f12 and  that aperture gets really small the best way to   maybe give a good analogy for this is your eyes  do the exact same thing as your camera lens does   you know how you are inside in the garage and then  you go outside and it's super bright out you're   like oh god my eyes and it takes you a minute  to adjust that is your eye adjusting its f-stop   to be able to see correctly and not blow  out the image so that in is essentially   what your camera lens is doing when it comes to  aperture now what we use aperture for is to create   depth in our images when you're taking a portrait  or you're taking a picture of something or someone   and you want to get the blurred out background  that helps separate your foreground from your   background we call that bokeh and then bokeh  is created through aperture so the wider your   aperture the background gets really really blurred  out and then your subject in the foreground is   very much in focus so let me throw up a couple of  images really quick the first image that you see   is shot at 2.8 so you can see that the background  is really blurred out and even the sides of my   face are a little blurry but my eyes and my nose  like my chest stuff like that that's more in focus   and then we go to the next image it was shot at  6.3 f-stop so you see that the background is just   a little bit more in focus my face is a little  bit more in focus and you're starting to get just   a little bit more detail and then if we take it up  even higher to the next photo which is shot at f10   then everything is in focus so you have like my  face the sides of my face all of the the leaves   and the trees and stuff like that behind me is in  focus but just remember that the lower the number   of the aperture the wider the opening of the  aperture meaning more light the higher the number   of the f-stop like f 22 the smaller the opening of  the aperture and the less light that it's letting   in just keep that in mind now moving right along  we are going to be jumping into shutter speed now   shutter speed going to keep with the same analogy  of using your eyes is how fast your camera lens is   going to blink if you're wanting to take pictures  of i don't know your dog and he's running or he's   shaking off a bunch of water or he's you're  trying to like freeze action you want to have   a really high shutter speed so the first photo  that i want to show you is taken at a really fast   shutter speed of my dog boba and it was shot at 1  250th of a second and that's really fast and you   can see like every drop of water flying off his  tail you can see the goofy expression on his face   now the next image is actually taken at a slower  shutter speed and he's running i mean at like mach   5 almost chasing after my fiance this was shot at  1 50th of a second the slower the shutter speed   the more time that the back of your camera or your  sensor has to capture what's going on in the scene   so the slower the shutter speed the more motion  blur that you're going to get so i was panning   along with him as he was like taking off and i  was just snapping a lot of photos but my camera   lens was only going really slow so i got all of  that motion within that frame it's kind of cool   it's a little trippy but another example of how to  use it is what if you're wanting to take a picture   of a maserati or of any kind of other car and  you want to show it like just like zooming by   then you're wanting to get like that slow motion  or that really good motion blur so you're going to   slow that shutter speed down and then you're just  going to like pan with the car to get the car in   focus but everything else is going to be blurred  out or say you're wanting to capture i don't know   a guy playing american football and you want to  see him like catch that football like midair just   you want to like just catch it and someone's  coming going to tackle him and just knock him over   and you want to freeze that then you're  gonna just take that shutter speed up   really high and it's gonna just capture absolutely  every moment every second and if you have like   nowadays you could take like 30 frames a second  with cameras nowadays so being able to capture   those moments are going to be so easy now the  last thing that we're going to be talking about   is iso iso is how sensitive the camera  sensor is to light what it used to mean   is how sensitive film was to light iso is gauged  in sensitivity from one or six like iso 64 to iso   1600 you know it there's astronomical amounts of  numbers nowadays but iso 64 iso 100 and 200 are   not that sensitive to light but the higher up in  the value you go like up to 800 or 1600 iso then   it's really sensitive to light when you're taking  pictures of something okay here's an example so   say that you are taking a picture of your family  and you're out in the shade and you're outside and   it's a bright day but you have your aperture open  remember you want to take your aperture up to like   f 2.8 let all that light in right and then you're  going to have a decent shutter speed to take   pictures of say you have kids and you want to make  sure that they're not squirming and you want to   capture them just right so you put it at shutter  speed of 1 160th of a second and you have an iso   of 100 or 200 because it's really bright outside  but in the back of the camera it still looks just   a little bit too dark so you're going to take  that iso and then you're going to bump it up a   little bit because another way to describe iso is  fake light that's that's really it is all it is   is that you would bump it up to the sensitivity  to the back of your sensor to allow more light to   be captured so that's a really good example of  when you would use that you're probably thinking   like okay well that's cool i can just crank up  my iso to however high i want and then it'll   be perfectly exposed all the time the name of  the game of dealing with iso is to keep it low   because the higher the iso the more film grain is  going to be into your images now digital cameras   and mirrorless cameras have done a phenomenal job  of making um iso grain noise and stuff like that   just obsolete but it's still going to be there  you know even though you have technology nowadays   to where it's going to reduce it a tremendous  amount and it's doing an amazing job doing that   you want to kind of keep the iso as low as  possible plus if you need to bump it up just   a tiny bit more after you've taken the picture you  can bring it into lightroom or photoshop and then   you could just boost it up from there all of those  things combined are what make a perfect image   and i know it can be a little bit intimidating  from time to time because you've got all these   knobs to play with and i mean you're like this is  an old camera lens and you're having to play with   f-stops and then you have to figure out like how  fast am i going to shoot i mean this holy cow this   old film camera only went up to 2000 of a second  nowadays you can get extremely fast shutter speeds   so we have come a long way and guys that is that's  it for shooting manual i mean it is really simple   you just need to go out play with your camera  try all the different settings make the mistakes   nowadays digital cameras allow you to see exactly  what you've taken right then and there so you   don't have to wait so don't don't let shooting  manual intimidate you at all so hit that like   button if you like this video subscribe if you  are not already and guys hit the bell so you   get notified whenever i post new videos and i'll  see y'all in the next video alright see you later you

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Length: 10min 20sec (620 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021