Manual Camera Settings

Today we went into the theatre and experimented with our manual camera settings. We learnt how to set our camera to the right aperture and shutter speed to get the correct exposure, not too dark nor too bright. I used 1/60 for the shutter speed, f5.6 for aperture and my ISO was set to 400. With these settings the picture had the right exposure.
I then changed my shutter speed to experiment with under exposed photographs and over exposed photographs and again, photos with the correct exposure.

These photographs have the correct exposure.

I took both of these images with the same shutter speed, aperture and ISO. My shutter speed was set to 1/60, aperture was f5.6 and ISO 400. These photographs have the correct exposure as they are not too bright or too dark. They have good lighting and you can see the object in focus clearly.

For the photograph on the right, it is under exposed and for this I had to change my aperture to f8 and then take the photo. Changing the aperture means adjusting how much light is let into the image so I changed the aperture to let less light in which resulted in an under exposed photograph.

For this photograph on the left, I changed my aperture to f3.5 which means more light is being let into the photograph, this resulted in the photo being over exposed, this hides features of the face and as you can see from the photograph, her hair and hand blends in slightly with the background.

 

For these photographs I was experimenting with my ISO setting, for the over exposed image on the right I changed my ISO to 3200 and as you can tell from the photograph it's really bright.

This photograph on the left I changed my ISO to 100 and there is hardly any light being let in, the photo is very dark and you can barely make out where Nicola is stood.