Camera Mode – Manual

This is the scary one, but well worth playing with as it will help you understand what changing various settings do. In manual mode you have to set the aperture setting yourself and you have to set the shutter speed setting yourself. If the resulting exposure is wrong, then you are to blame, if it’s [...]

Updates, or lack of

These last few weeks, since having an operation, I was hoping to get loads of useful info on this site and really get it going, but as usual life just got in the way. My freelance web development work suddenly got busy and the sun came out too. The good thing is that I have [...]

Example of changing the shutter speed

Here is an example of how shutter speed can be used creatively. The subject of these two shots is the same, the position is the same but the images look quite different. You can see that the image on the left shows the water drops more clearly. This was taken with a fast shutter speed, [...]