How to use manual setting in photography
- Aaron Fairooz
- May 12
- 2 min read
Welcome to Episode 1: How to Shoot Manual Setting on Your Camera.
In this episode you will learn how and when to modify the aperture, or F-stop, the shutter speed, the ISO and white balance settings. Each setting has a unique pro and con to it's usage so listen carefully and enjoy!
Aperture
Aperture controls the amount of light that goes through your lens and into the sensor. The greater the aperture number the less light it lets in. The less light it lets in the more depth of field(DOF) you will have. The DOF is the area within the image that remains in focus. See the below diagram which illustrates this relationship.
SHALLOW DOF EXAMPLE
Wide DOF EXAMPLE
Shutter speed
The shutter speed controls how fast your camera records the single image. The faster the shutter speed the less time the camera takes to start and stop it's recording process of a single image. Fast shutter speeds are typically used in sports photography, fashion photography and sometimes product photography. The slower the shutter speed the blurry the image will be if you have a subject in motion.
FAST SHUTTER SPEED (1/5000TH OF A SECOND)
SLOW SHUTTER SPEED (30 SECOND)
ISO
ISO sensitivity determines how the camera responds to light. The higher the ISO setting the more sensitive the camera is to light, but this comes with a cost of image quality. When we do commercial photo shoots we always try to keep the ISO set to the cameras native ISO setting.
high ISO(ISO 3200)
Here is a close up look at the noise
Low ISO example (Native ISO of 100)
WHITE BALANCE
White balancing is the process of telling your camera what color light you are capturing. The camera then adds the equal and opposite amount of color to the image so that you light appears colorless or balanced.
incorrect white balance correct
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