Camera Settings Explained - The Truth: Mike Browne
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ส.ค. 2018
- It’s easy to think the best camera settings will give you great pictures. Sadly that’s not the case. Sometimes settings make virtually no difference, others they make a big difference. But when and why? It's counter-intuitive and a real bummer to get your head around when you’re starting out as a photographer.
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Over the years, I've spent a lot of time studying and practicing photography. At the age of 73, I can honestly say that you are the best teacher of photography that I've ever found. Your ability to make people understand its concepts, while never talking down to anyone, is superb!
Thank you Virginia Frank... MIKE
Seriously what a lifesaver!
About 8 years ago I started watching your vids, you helped me start my hobby which turned into career as a creative. I was happy when I came back to this page & seen you still make videos, thank you Mike for years of content.
Thanks Dj W
. That's really interesting you made a career as a creative. Please would you consider sharing your story with our readers in one of our Zero To Hero articles? There's a link to the page below where you can see what others have shared and find out how to tell your own story. Be great if you're up for it... MIKE
www.photographycourses.biz/zero-to-hero
Mike Browne of course, I’d love to 😁
I feel exactly the same way, 'I'm nearly there' (as far as working fulltime as a pro). Mike is humble, he's a great teacher and he's pretty funny too. I did a gig recently where a dude followed me around all day asking me why I don't shoot Sony and generally being a jerk, making snide remarks about my camera gear and trying to put me off. I just thought: "What would Mike do?" Easy, he'd just keep shooting and stay true to being a 'photograph creator' so that's what I did.
Mat Teakle I agree, he’s a great teacher he genuinely cares & haha that’s a great motto, got to stay focused and ignore those who try to get a rise out of us. Keep shooting 🤙🏽
Thanks Mat Teakle. And good on you for having the confidence to ignore the jerk at the gig. None of their business what you're doing or shoot on... MIKE :-)
I need a plastic lobster! As I dip in and out of photography, I always come back to Mike’s videos. Wonderful teacher. Thank you.
You are so welcome Soar. Lobsters Rock ... MIKE 🙏😊
This is the best video on camera settings I have ever seen. In fact it is great advice for mastering ANYTHING. Practice is the difference between someone who who does a given task or skill automatically seemingly without thinking, fast and with seemly little effort and ends up with high level results and someone who struggles, takes twice as long, and gets mediocre results. All you see is the amazing photo on a gallery wall or in a wedding album or online with 2000 likes. You don't see the blood, sweat, tears, hard work, and 1000s of hours of practice that happened before that moment that gave the person making them the ability to do it. It's not natural talent or luck or birth right, or any of the other things people think because they only see the end result. The major difference between you and the photographer who's work you admire the most is dedication and practice practice practice.
Only found this channel in the last few days. Mike you explain things very simply. I have just taken taken up photography in my retired years. Thank you.
Thanks Michael Ellard
and welcome... MIKE
Rather than using your settings...........I think the important thing is to understand your settings. So from that perspective, I can see a lot of value in your posting of your settings on shots. Along with that, when you explain how you arrived at those settings (which you've done a lot) it really helps.
Jim Thornton it is definitely beneficial understanding the thought process and rational as to how a seasoned professional arrives at their settings for a given environment, in that particular moment. Developing a basic understanding of the fundamentals is critical for a person like myself (hobby) which he explains wonderfully in other vlogs. But like you I do enjoy vlogs that share the settings and explain why they have picked them.
I missed you Mike, I (I suppose all of us) want you to be more here. I know its selfish but IMHO this is one of the greatest chanells. Hope this comment could encourage or motivate you a little bit more for anything! Cheers
thank you for the warm comments! Mike misses you all - Melissa pp Mike :)
I think I've seen most of your videos Mike but have to say this is one of the very best many thanks indeed.
Thank Oliver.. MIKE
Wonderful, Mike. I agree 100% that settings don't translate automatically. I do however like to hear the reasoning behind your shot - Thinking Like a Photographer. Keep them coming!
Mike Sir you are what every person starting out on their photography journey should take guidance from, I myself have watched hundreds of different clips and photographers..you explain things very well, simple to understand and keep up the good work.
thank you so much night sky for that wonderful comment! please do share it too so we can make more - Melissa pp Mike
It's so refreshing...
I totally agree with you
Thanks Martin
One of the finest video Mike. The comparison of different setting to take the similar pic was awesome. Thanks for sharing.
As always, your videos are always simple, to the point and no hanky-panky big things, just about basics, looking forward for the next one 🙂
Absolutely bloody fantastic Mike; not only a top notch photographer but an amazing motivational speaker too.
Thank you Eric.. MIKE
Excellent tutorial, straight up logical thinking. Love the rants that’s when creativity comes out. Being scripted doesn’t allow for further creativity. Thanks !
Thanks Randy... MIKE :-)
You don't get enough credit, I don't know why you don't have more followers. You explain everything so easy.
thank you Vaneh, please do share so we can get more - Melissa pp Mike
You remind me of the angler John Wilson, he had the same level of passion for fishing and narrated his videos in a very similar way. Your videos are very clearly spoken and easy to understand. I'm not a beginner but I like to see how other people explain the same things as I do to others. Awesome videos and thanks for taking the time to share you knowledge.
Thank you @Dean Morter Photography .. MIKE
As usual a great video and golden tips, Mike !!! Appreciate.
Great video Mike, really enjoy your honest no bull approach to these important subjects thank you 🙏🏿
Recently found your channel, one of the most easy videos to follow, really like your teaching style.
Awesome, thank you for your kind words. Delighted to have helped ...
Absolute truth and a brilliant sense of humour to boot. ‘Practice with your lobster folks’!! Thank Mike for illuminating so many photography mysteries for me with you simple and educational videos. I have learned loads in the last few weeks just following your advice. Brilliant.
Thanks James. Happy to help. Please keep sharing my vids with other photographers as it helps us keep them coming... Best wishes... MIKE
Careful. I know this lovely man. For goodness sake make sure the lobster practicing is not overrun and you end up watching far too much TH-cam instead.
I could watch your videos all day. Oh, I forgot! I have done that. Another excellent video. Thanks!
Ha ha - thanks Ed... MIKE
Wonderfully presented. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Thanks again Mike. I enjoyed your rant. Keep it up. Your are right.
Probably one of the best, straight forward videos on photography that I have ever watched. I'll be rewatching it again for sure.
Thanks Robert. 🙏😊
I have learnt so much from your tutorials. And I have gone out and practiced many of the techniques that you have taught me. I'd say that only now is this video more relevant than any of your others, because I am not thinking about cameras or settings or the shot, I could actually listen to what you said, understand what you said and why, and made me think again about practice. The best lesson of all that you have taught me, is the best camera in the world is the one in your hands. Thank you
Thanks Martin - it's funny how sometimes were only able to truly receive the message when the time's right!
"Practice with your lobster!" This has been one of my favorite videos of yours that I've seen. You verified what I have determined for myself a while ago. Your settings aren't my settings. Thanks for sharing!
This topic and recommendations are very important. They also justify the rant, as you called it. Too many people don't realize that thinking is necessary for consistently taking good photos. Also, too many worry about the settings used by others instead of learning the basics and figuring them out for themselves. Great video, Mike!
thank you for the support Virginia :) Melissa pp Mike
Another great video, really enjoy your delivery.
I know what you mean about settings Mike but I do think they do help us beginners a little , I have used your settings in one of your vids just to give me a place to start from . I then adjust my settings to get the image I’m after . So your right in saying your exact settings won’t be for me , but they do give me a base to start from if the light etc is similar. Keep the videos coming mate and keep up the good work 📷
Great rant, Mike! I love showing your videos in my photo classes - you now have hundreds of happy informed followers from my photography students. This video in particular places dealing with prescribed settings in perspective - it is on the photographer to work with ever-changing lighting conditions, pre-visualization - and takes lots of practice. Thanks again.
Thank you @Laura Hoffman... MIKE
Mr Browne sir you always get to the point and make a person like me understand so easily.
Came accross your channel purely by chance, i have seen other photography channels but you really explain each lesson, these are the best on youtube,..Brilliant...subscribed !
thank you so much for subscribing! please do share it too to other photographers so we can make more free videos! - Melissa pp Mike
You know, I've been struggling to try and understand better how my settings are affecting my pictures, and this video has really helped me remember what photography's really about: finding potential images that inspire me, images I want to capture. I'm an historian, and advice I give to my students usually includes something about "letting the sources speak for themselves" so that they don't go into an essay or project with a pre-existing assumption of what their conclusions ought to be - to inspire them to think critically about the sources they're engaging with. It strikes me that you're offering similar advice here: find the image, and let the images speak for themselves, telling me what settings to use to get what I want.
This is just so powerful, I love how you say it too Andrew Kloiber, letting the sources speak for themselves" - Melissa pp Mike
I use my granddaughters Dolls head and shoulders. One of these make up dolls. Helps me practice my composition and lighting and shade along with using a 50 mm prime. I have to do all the hard work as opposed to zooming in and out. It gets me moving. What you did with the lobster is what I have been doing with the dolls head . I am really enjoying learning this stuff . Have been watching your vids for a while and learn so much from them. Thankyou very much.
Mike you really explain things so ANYONE can understand ...I’ve suggested you site to everyone that shows interesting in photography...thank you so much for all you do and share with us...we were blessed when we came across your site...
thank you isabella for the kind words, we are blessed too, to have you here - Melissa pp Mike
Wow! This has boosted my confidence a bit. "The images make the settings - not the settings make the images". You have helped me to understand why when I use the same settings as someone else the image wasn't the same. The lighting, composition, distance isn't the same, ever. This is so true and while I still have a lot to learn about settings and better grasping how to apply them for my image, I know that I will keep practicing to understand and gain experience. Thank you so much for making this video and explaining so well without a bunch of mumbo jumbo!
Happy to help Leanne. It's a common mistake which I made when I was learning too... Most of photography is kinda back to front. If you're really keen to get to grips with this please take a look at my online courses. I know there's free info here and everywhere else but without a guide to take you through it in the right order and give you exercises to get real experience it can be confusing. I put a link below if you'd like to check my curriculum pout and try a sample... MIKE
www.photographycourses.biz/courses
Great advice as usual. I direct any new photographers I meet to your page because of videos like this one. I personally see my growth and improvement since I started watching your channel. Thank you
Thank you for the support Freeman! people like you make us hustle! - Melissa pp Mike :)
Great video Mike. Thought the 'pictures make setting' not the other way round was particularly pertinent. Keep em coming!
Spot on the money Mike !! Soooo many people on TH-cam always asking photographers for their settings. Sometimes wonder if they really Listen to what you are saying !?!?
Such a natural teacher! Thanks for the reminder, Mike. Some day, I’ll get myself across the pond to take a course with you. 😀
Thank you Vanessa :) - Melissa pp Mike
Excellent video Mike
Great speech/tutorial. Inspirational as always. Thanks a lot for the video...
Thank you... MIKE
Well done, Mike. Am never disappointed in your vids. One observation - going back to analog photography days, I recall that photo mags would routinely publish gear and camera settings used for each pic. Perhaps the persistent question is a carry-over from that era.
Thanks Paul. Yes I'm pretty sure it is too. I think they just wanted something to say because the info was no more use then than it is now... MIKE
It is me again. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the effort you have put in subtitles. Thank you!
Thanks - you've reminded me to do some of the latest ones too!
A lot of gold tips in this super video.Thanks MB :)
Excellent thinking Mike, and well explained. These things never really occurred to me. I am interested in the settings more out of curiosity than anything else.
Glad these opened a new perspective to you - Melissa pp Mike
Such great video!!! Please do make more!!!
Brilliant Mike, I'm a newbie kind of, been taking photos all my life, I'm 54, but because of COVID killing our work for a year I was able to get serious and I'm loving it. I totally agree with what you said but I must say once I work out who I trust and like on youtube I do use settings as a guide. I for instance take lots of sunsets, I'm on a property, in the beginning I wasn't quite happy with the results so I'd look at the settings one of my fav you tubers used on some of hers then I would try that track, then I'd modify it to suit myself and grow from there. So sometimes its good for a guide to have settings. You can work out that the conditions are all different but I still find it a help. I absolutely love photography and love learning more and more stuff. One day when we can travel again would love to come to the UK and take lots of images. xx
One day Lisa! In the meantime practice, practice practice.... glad you're loving it
Hatsoff to ur practical information,expecting the lots of videos
Another brilliant no nonsense tutorial. Thanks Mike
Greetings from the Bahamas, thanks for your rant, I know you are speaking the truth clearly, I am completely new to this art form. I am learning and applying ideas on an old Samsung point and shoot using only manual settings, taking pictures seeing results, deleting and trying again, learning a lot from all you videos, cheers.
Another superb video!
Great tips Mike... thanks!
Great video and good practical advice without any bull.
I appreciate the comment 😌
Love your common sense approach, and your down to earth delivery. I never felt the need to take notice of other peoples settings, so it was great for you to put into words what I innately knew. Thank you so much.
Thank you @Riga Walsh... MIKE
Great video Mike. I value your photography videos!!
Thanks Eric.. Please keep sharing them around buddy... MIKE :-)
Love the simple direct vocabulary, no sugar coating it but calling it as it is, which is how I was brought up. I have been out practicing, practicing, practicing in manual and I am still on the learning curve. I don’t have the latest camera or best lense, what I do have is passion and willingness to try. Not to be scared to fail (queue Churchill quote on failure) “success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”. However with the help of Einstein’s definition of insanity “doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. With the likes of Mr Browne’s help, we can only get better as photographers. I wish I had found this channel 5 months ago when I was just getting into my new hobby of photography. If this guy can’t inspire or motivate you, head to the morgue. Thanks for the advice......love it
Thank you so much Brian. I have the Churchill quote on the office wall... Delighted to have helped. Please help me make more by sharing the vids around wherever appropriate.. Stay well my friend... MIKE 🙏🙂
Thank you Mike for this wonderful video. I really loved the fitness coach part. As a tennis coach myself, i know how it feels to push people for more practice. All your tutorials are great. Thank you once again for the great work...
Some excellent practical advice given there Mike and as always put in simple layman terms, many thanks.
Hey Mike,
My better half and myself think the world of you and your videos. This one was terrific. Keep up the good work. Many photographers have a very great fear and it is well founded (not myself or yourself of course, and I digress from your video - please forgive me.) The biggest fear a photographer really has is that his or her spouse will at the end of the photographers life, sell on their photo equipment at the price they said was paid for it. Ha ha. Ouch!
Cheers’s
Great video. I learned so much.
Love your work Mike. Greetings from Australia.
As always, great advice. Don't be afraid to experiment, you can do it anywhere.
Thanks Alan 🙏. Wishing you a fab 2020 buddy... MIKE 🙂
Excellent Mike and so true pictures give you settings nice video as always
Another great video Mike 📷
Another terrific video in your usual down-to earth delivery. I definitely recommend the 7 building blocks. It was one of the best decisions I made when I enrolled for this super course.
Thanks Dawn. ... MIKE :-)
Love the rant Numpty. Good one!
Another great video Mike ! It is always nice to get honest advices from an experienced (And friendly🙄) pro. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom!
L G thank you for the support and please do share the videos too so we can make more! - Melissa pp Mike
Absolutely spot on!
Like always amazing video... Thx Mike
Right on Mike as always! Thank you for everything all these years!
Thanks Eva... MIKE
As usual mesmerising and helpful guidance.....when I watch your presentation I always feel like learning from an elder brother......so honest and gentle your teachings are.....I learned a lot from your free teachings and I have no words expressing my thanks.
One small request sir, I am facing difficulty understanding concept of visual balance in photography, I would be grateful if you teach us how to get it in our images.
Thanks again.
perhaps you may start on focusing on your composition, this all boils down to visual balance - Melissa pp Mike www.photographycourses.biz/videos/creative/composition/how-to-learn-composition
Excellent video , thanks.
Nice one Mike, well said and thanks
Great video, Mike. I interesting, like more, learn to you. Thank!
I like that you post the settings, so I get a idea where the settings should be.
People always like settings and I understand why, but just remember your settings will be unique to your camera, subject and environment so don't get too hung up on mine :-)
One of your best video's this one. Good stuff
Thanks Martin... Please share it around and help me make more... MIKE :-)
Fantastic advice mike
Mike, I've just recently found your youtube page and have reckon you have one of the best teaching styles I've seen to date, really enjoy your style and your humour.(similar accent to John Cleese lol)
Thanks David, plenty more of me on my website! www.photographycourses.biz/
Good video. I added it to my Photography and Videography Help playlist.
"Going-to-the-shops" analogy- perfect! Thank you. :)
Really really wonderful video. I really loved the way you explained how to think as a photographer. Cameras don’t take pictures, the photographer takes a picture. The same way you made a big point very clear that settings don’t give the picture but a picture gives you the appropriate settings.
Awesome sir. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful video. Keep it up 👍. Take care.
Thanks for the reply Dr. Nimish 🙏
I just purchased my first camera and I have to say this video is quite liberating. I'm glad I found your channel here. The internet is full of useful information but wading thru the ocean of misinformation to get to it, ...well, that becomes a battle in itself. I did have a good salesperson at a local camera shop who presented about 5-6 options and discussed many things with us to widdle it down. I ended up choosing the Lumix FZ1000. I'm glad to know that it is partly / largely irrelevant which platform I ended up with. The key in photography is the same as with any other area of interest / hobby I've looked at. In guitar playing, so many want to buy guitars until they get that magic one that makes them play like a virtuoso. But the virtuoso they are so influenced by became who they are on a cheap guitar that was nothing special and all they could afford. A great photographer could take a great shot with a disposable camera, the same as a guitar virtuoso could play a opus on a cheap guitar.
Thanks Tony. Love your comment about it's not the guitar - it's the musician. Have you seen Seasick Steve playing a cheap japanese guitar from a junk shop that's only got 3 strings? Link below... MIKE
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Great Video Mike
I do love the way you teach x
Thank you Karen... MIKE
It’s amazing how whenever I go out on a shoot, it’s like I hear Mike in my head from the time I raise the camera until I take the shot!!🤣👍 it’s like he’s following me around! But, his advice has never failed me, and I know a darned side more today than before he started trailing me around. I have also learned his art of locating shoots near coffee shops and bakeries! Strange, isn’t it? And I have not yet found the pastry setting on my camera!!🤣🤣🤣
🙏 Thanks John. Strange you can't find the pastry setting. Maybe the handbook has something to say... MIKE ☺️
Another great video. Thanks. Wish I could attend one of your workshops
That would be lovely! - Melissa pp Mike
thank you .. have a nice time
Top video Mike. About time "somebody" put this info Out There !!!!! Soooo many people about that Don't Know they Don't Know !!!! Tooo Lazy to read their User Manual !?!? Keep up the Great work. Cheers from Oz.
Wow thanks for this video it helps me a lot. 👌
Great video Mike. I'm in a beginners photography group on fb. I see people ask almost on a daily basis what settings to use for weddings, children or portraits. The only thing I can think of that might be the same every time is if you're taking pictures of the moon or milky way. And that depends on what the limitations are on your camera. Some cameras handle higher ISO than others so the settings for my camera may not be the same for others for the milky way but they're always the same for me. I think what you said about the pictures make the settings not the settings that make the picture is profound.
Another great video mike with some great advice keep up the great work
thank you for the kind words , please do share our videos so we can make more - Melissa pp Mike
Thanks Mike, luv your vids!
Maestro!
Excellent.
Thanks for all your wisdom
Thank you - makes so much sense. And learnt a new word - stoater.
Nice to see you get back to more direct photographic topics from the psychological and business ones. As always you are super in this and your points are key to folks getting away from the idea that if they only know the setting used, they can take the same photo. By the way love that building behind you when you are sitting on the bench. Is that in the Lymington area??
Thanks Erich. It's not far away, it's Christchurch Quay... MIKE
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Soooo true. Same rationale for "what camera do you use" or "what lens is that". I think some people just think there is a silver bullet or shortcut when the reality is practice, light and composition whether you are using a dslr or mobile phone. If you take crap photos on a £200 camera guess what you'll still take crap photos on a £2000 camera. And yes, I speak from experience!
Always interesting Mike..and ive been using cameras for over 50 years well done