| Have you ever wondered how professional | | | | shutter speed 1 sec. Remember those settings now. |
| photographers seem to get their exposures right first | | | | Now switch your camera to fully manual and punch in |
| time every time? After all those all those settings | | | | those settings. Hey presto! Congratulations you are |
| they need to figure out in all sorts of lighting | | | | now taking photos in fully manual mode. Its now you |
| situations can't be easy right? Well guess what | | | | that is taking the photo and not the camera, that |
| learning how to get correct exposure certainly is that | | | | means you are the one who is making all the creative |
| difficult. Sure it will take time to master it, but it | | | | decisions and not your camera and that is a very |
| doesn't take long to start taking decent landscape | | | | liberating feeling. The first time you get your first |
| photography photos with just a few tips up your | | | | great fully manual shot is a great feeling and one that |
| sleeve. Get comfortable with this technique and you | | | | you won't forget. Don't let the camera make your |
| will soon be impressing everyone with your new | | | | decisions for you. |
| found professional photography skills. | | | | Now one of the mistakes I think people make is that |
| This landscape photography tip starts with you | | | | if they aren't happy with the exposure after using |
| switching your camera to fully automatic mode. Once | | | | this trick they going and change all three settings. |
| you've done that we want to find one of the | | | | Please don't do that. To get a great landscape |
| following three colours. Red, Blue or Green. Why | | | | photograph, you should only really change the shutter |
| those colours? Because they are primary colours and | | | | speed. If the photo is too dark then hold the shutter |
| that is what we after. Obviously we want the | | | | open for longer. This will allow more light in and give |
| objects with those colours to be reasonable close to | | | | you a brighter exposure. If the exposure is too |
| the subject that you are shooting. So what could be | | | | bright, simply release your shutter sooner, this will let |
| green? Well grass and trees are green, and the sky | | | | less light onto your sensor making for a darker photo. |
| is normally blue. Don't stress if you can't find those | | | | It's that easy! |
| three colours, if someone is wearing orange for | | | | So what are you waiting for? Grab your camera |
| instance that will suffice. | | | | head outside and give it a try. |
| Now point your camera and that object and see | | | | Stay tuned for my next article where I describe how |
| what settings your camera would use to take the | | | | to take this simple system to the next level. |
| shot. It might say aperture should be F8, ISO400 and | | | | |