The Big Lie about Camera Settings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- I believed a big lie about photography camera settings for years! It made me self conscious, and nervous about sharing my settings with others, especially as a wedding photographer. But in this video I debunk that lie and show you some examples.
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Loving your work, Luke. I'd ignore people telling you how to do your job.
Personally, after about 15 years of manual shooting, I switched to aperture priority for most of the day. Someone far wiser told me, "imagine spending that much on a camera and not trusting it." What an epiphany! I've set a minimum shutter speed (1/250) and an ISO range, and I ride exposure compensation. Sure, I'd have more control in manual, but the camera can react to extreme changes in the scene way faster than me. More than five years later, if I'm walking through the doors of a church on a bright day, I can focus on framing and not tripping over without a pause in shooting. I'll use shutter priority for fast moments, and manual is reserved only for when I'm using flash. I've found freeing up the brain space I was using to simultaneously adjust ISO, white balance, shutter speed, and aperture has made it far easier to time and frame my photos and improved the quality of my work. And that's all our couples care about; they don't care how you do it.
As you say, "correct" is a range. Shooting in manual clearly works for you, Luke. The fact is, your work is good, and if people's first concern is the settings you used instead of whether or not they like the photo, then haven't they sort of missed the point?
As a professional, the correct settings are the settings that enable you to get the shot. The ideal settings for one person might be different to another due to shooting styles and gear (newer cameras can handle high iso without a problem, some have IBIS or lens IS so you can shoot 1/30 or even lower).
Some ceremony venues might not allow you to use flash so you'll have to crank up the ISO while staying at the back with a 70-200mm 2.8.
As Luke says in the video, a wedding day is so dynamic with so many scenarios (which is one of the things I love) that focusing too much on the "perfect" settings will often mean you miss the candid special moments.
99.9% of your clients won't care that you took a shot at 3200 ISO instead of 800.
Thanks for your comment and for watching!
@@lukewtcleland Thank you Luke for making a video on this topic! Some really valuable lessons here 🙏🙏
Super helpful - thanks Luke
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Great points. I’ll also use a little higher ISO when using flash and or certain modifiers too. Like you mentioned, maybe it’s because I don’t want that flash look and want it to look more natural so you use brighter camera settings and lower flash power. Sometimes the flash your using just isn’t powerful enough to get several burst out of when using higher power settings especially full power, so you raise your iso so you can lower your flash power too to get the same results. I have the Westscott optical spot, it sucks up a lot of flash power so I’ll use high iso so my flash doesn’t have to work so hard and can get more burst between shots too. Great video!
I once shot half the wedding day with exposure comp -2 and I could save it in post.
09:50 - thats why although I can shoot manual all day, I love Aperture priority with auto iso just makes so much sense. Not sure why everyone gets down on it.
When I have seconds make a mistake its always because they could'nt change settings either quickly enough or they forget and just increase the shutter speed going from inside to outside etc.
Very true. I have always found if funny when photographers post their settings. It makes them look like a rookie when I've known this lie all my career. Like, teach people why. No one will ever be able to get the same results of another photogs camera settings.
My Canon R5 has saved me numerous times ,😅when the settings are not 100%
What are your thoughts on using auto iso? Limited to 2000. This may save some of the pressure in getting the 'perfect' photo.
Auto ISO definitely has its place but Luke does have a point that with white dresses and bright settings often associated with weddings you bump into the issue of the camera's metering decisions when it selects that ISO. If it ends up that you have to crank the exposure comp dial, you may as well be spinning your shutter speed or ISO dial instead.
Your settings definitely could have been better in the first three examples. Just because there was a lot going on, you were scrambling and switching between different lighting conditions doesn’t mean your settings couldn’t have been objectively better.