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Shark watching in Fiji
fast moving subjects require shorter
shutter speeds. The camera selects the
aperture value and if the image doesn’t
look right (most likely overexposure),
you can negatively compensate for that.
5) All other modes – ‘Active’,
‘Landscape’, ‘Portrait’…
These are crutches for a photographer
too lazy to think. If you know
that to take an interesting portrait the
background should be blurred, you can
open up the aperture, can’t you? If you
are shooting action, you choose the ‘S’
mode, set the shortest possible shutter
speed (to ‘freeze’ the subject’s motion)…
There is no need for a thinking and
knowledgeable photographer to use
these modes…
Wreck “Kingston” (1881). Straits of Gubal, Red Sea, Egypt.
Nikon D700 15 mm F2.8 (f11; 1/60 ñ; ISO100)
Ikelite housing
6) The underwater mode
Almost all Olympus cameras, both pointand-shoots
and mirrorless, are equipped
with this. It works fine! When set to this
mode, the camera automatically chooses
the right white balance, selects shutter
speed, aperture and sensitivity values.
For an owner of a point-and-shoot, who
is just starting, this is a simple and
reliable solution.
Then when you’ve played enough with
the auto underwater mode, you will
want to switch to the manual mode. Of
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