Question

I was walking my dog Baroness in the park yesterday. She’s really sweet and I wanted to get a picture of her – a really detailed picture of her – so I set the shutter speed to 1/250th of a second. I noticed that an f/stop setting of 2.8 gave me a really nice picture of her - that is to say, the exposure (the amount of light) was really good. BUT I noticed that the tree behind her and the pond weren’t in focus and I really wanted to see all of it. So I decided change the settings so that Bear and the scenery were in focus. What settings should I change on my camera?

-. And in what direction?

. Later we were tossing football in a big grassy area. She’s a great receiver – Air Bud has nothing on her. I told her to “go long” up the sideline and she took off running. I was thinking about how to get a good picture of her when she was moving so fast. As she ran back past me I set my shutter speed to 1/1000th of a second in order to get a good shot of her. What should I set my f/stop setting to in order to have the same total exposure? (original settings are in bold)

f-stop     1, 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32

shutter    1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000

Answer 1

In order to take a full proper picture of the dog along with all the environment surroundings, firstly one needs to set the proper settings of shutter speed, aperture and exposure. The exposure settings should be done in order to maximize the amount of light entering the lens of the camera. So, the exposure should vary from one environment and atmosphere to another. Now to get a more detailed image along with the surroundings, one needs to set the zoom in feature of the camera into manual mode, so as to perfectly focus both the target and the surrounding objects. Also, one needs to turn off the macro settings in the camera, if it has been turned on.

Once, the shutter speed is set at 1/1000th of a second, the f stop setting should be set in the range of 4-5.6. This gives one the maximum exposure, with an ISO number of around 800. So, one should set the value of the f stop in this case,in the range of 4-5.6, to have a proper image of the object under consideration.