TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT
HOT SHOT#1
RONNIE’S COMMENT
For our first shot Drew and I picked this part of the dilapidated Coity castle to use as the focal point – it looked like it was erupting up and out of the ground! I use a narrow aperture of f/16 and the yellow buttercups worked well as a good dose of colour in the foreground. But the bright sky was a bit problematic, so we used graduated ND filters to get a consistent exposure across the frame and stop the sky from blowing out.
Lens Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS US M
Exposure 1/25 sec, f/16, ISO100
SWITCH OFF ‘IS ’ WHEN USING YOUR CAMERA ON A TRIPOD
CANON’S lens-based Image Stabilization is great for allowing you to get sharp shots at shutter speeds slower than normal when shooting handheld. But on a locked-off tripod the system still has the potential to move the glass elements inside the lens to compensate for movement that isn’t there, so your shots may come out blurry. As a result, it’s best practice to turn off IS when you’re using a tripod.
NARROW APERTURE FOR SUPER SHARP DOF
close down your lens’s aperture you’ll restrict the light flow to a mere trickle,
