Forum: Photography


Subject: A little advice here please ;00)

Kassie opened this issue on Jun 12, 2008 · 13 posts


inshaala posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 7:48 PM

Ok - as i dont have a rebel, i wouldnt know exactly - best thing to do is read your manual.  I actually carried my manual around with me for about 6 months after i bought my camera, mainly because i would then learn what each bit did at my own pace. 

What you are aiming for in your shoot with the band is basically this (however you get there is something you need to find out in terms of the settings)*:

The faster (ie higher numbers) the shutterspeed you get, the better.  To stop action dead you generally need about 1/400th (i've heard that is the bottom line for sports 'togs).  Realistically you wont get that.  So you are in a situation where you will have to get the best you can... and that means somewhere in the 1/60th to 1/120th range - lower than that at you risk getting blurry images - higher than that and you are laughing! 

*Practice, take a look at what the changes to any settings you make on the camera does to shutter speed when you half depress the shutter release.  General observations should be somewhere along these lines:

The Brighter the subject / lighting, the faster the shutterspeed (at any f-stop)
The Lower the f-stop number, the faster the shutterspeed
The Higher the ISO setting, the faster the shutterspeed

Those three "rules" are all you need to know when at the gig and trying to get a good shot which is exposed properly and doesnt have a blurry mess at the end of it - which is (i would imagine) the main concern here.  Get that sorted and you can then forget about it and worry about creating great images :)

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