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Camera Settings
Paul Hayes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Littleton | NH | USA | Posted: 9:38 AM on 08.18.10 |
->> I just wondered how many of you have altered your camera settings (I'm not talking aperture, shutter speed, ISO or exposure .... I mean the deeper settings), what settings you've adjusted and what changes you made.
After looking at a bunch of recent pictures of mine I'm wondering if I should make any subtle adjustments in order to get better focus and exposure.
FYI I shoot with Nikon FX bodies (D3, D700). |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 9:54 AM on 08.18.10 |
->> Paul I haven't had to make any focus or exposure changes. I have however changed the sharpening, saturation, contrast, step size, and maybe a half dozen other settings.
Those changes get changed themselves as shooting venues and conditions dictate. Nice thing is that the D3 lets you save different sets of settings and name them. Then when you go back to the same venue you can pull up the settings that you have been fine tuning. |
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Bob Nichols, Photographer
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Tipton | IN | USA | Posted: 12:35 PM on 08.18.10 |
->> Paul,
This page from Sports Illustrated has suggested camera settings, albeit for older cameras. You might get some ideas here.
Bob
http://www.siphoto.com/ |
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Paul Hayes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Littleton | NH | USA | Posted: 12:36 PM on 08.18.10 |
| ->> So what changes would you make if you were shooting indoors. I have a National Guard deployment coming up at an indoor venue and need to figure out how to adjust to the situation (up until now I have just gone with the default settings). |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 9:43 AM on 08.19.10 |
->> Paul sorry I couldn't back to you sooner. Truth is that I really can't tell you what will or won't work for you. The way I worked it all out was to shoot RAW+Jpeg and tweak the settings until I found what would make me happy. Then for routine shooting in those schools and gyms I have a baseline of what works and just shoot jpegs. As a base I have the sharpening turned up a notch or two, contrast is left flat, saturation is up one notch.
When I'm shooting portraits, something "important", or out on an assignment I go the jpg+raw route as it gives me an out if my tweaks prove to be off the mark. Of course shooting RAW won't help you if you goof up a focus calibration but I've been lucky in that all of my glass has played nice on my bodies.
What kind of exposure issues are you chasing? Sometimes I change the size of the center-weight spot so that the meter isn't overwhelmed by a sea of one particular color. |
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