On my lunch break I did a little reading today about camera settings, you know that funky stuff- ISO (the sensitivity of film to light), aperture- how wide the opening is in the lens, and stops or shutter speed. I didn’t have my fancypants camera on me but I did have my point ‘n shoot. My point and shoot has controls for shutter speed and ISO. I set it to macro and started to snap pictures of a G2 pen I had on my desk, in the back ground is a stack of folded letters ready for mailing.
The first picture is at ISO 1600, with the camera’s self setting for shutter speed.
The second picture is the same image at ISO 1600 set to expose at the camera’s setting of +2, or double the camera’s regular shutter speed.
In this one you can see the graininess of the background, which I rather like in comparison to the foreground. Additionally the image itself is not quite as crisp as images shot at 200, 400 or even 800 ISO.
The 3rd picture is the same image at ISO 1600 and down 2 from the camera’s regular setting.
Below check out the same item, shot at 400 ISO at the camera’s internal “regular setting.”
Anyway, the whole thing is fascinating to me in that I’m learning I can control the camera to get results I want before transferring the images to my computer and editing, even with just a point and shoot. This clearly opens up a lot of options.