Test Your New Camera With These Exercises
Have a new camera? Congratulations! Let’s take a closer look at your camera and find out what it can do.
The School of Digital Photography offers five camera experiments to test its aperture controls, exposure compensation, ISO settings, slow shutter speed, and white balance. Experiments include things like capturing text on paper with different white balance settings and adjusting exposure when photographing a white object next to a black object.
Performing these tests should help you learn how to operate the camera and make quick adjustments if you are not getting the photo you want or the camera is crashing.
You will also learn things like:
Your camera is set to expose the world as if it were 18% gray . This means that black objects are exposed to make them appear grayer; the same is with white things. If you are photographing something already gray, such as a sidewalk, no adjustment is required. Otherwise, to make white things white, you need to tell the camera to overexpose (this was “+1”), and to make black objects turn black, you need to underexpose (“-1”).
and:
White balance can be most difficult when there are more than one light source, and it is helpful to know how to adjust the colors. Lower temperatures (incandescent and fluorescent) produce more yellow-green tints, while clouds and shadows produce more blues. If you want to eliminate this color cast in images, move the white balance towards these settings.
The more you experiment, the more you learn about your new camera and its capabilities. Check out the exercise link below.
Follow These 5 Quick Exercises to Find Out What Your New Camera Can Do | School of digital photography