Hello group, I was outside trying to fulfill a self assessment using just natural light. My camera is a canon 60D and I used a 50mm F1.4 prime. I know most of us are self-taught and we read tons of articles hoping to learn something to improve our craft so we can be define as better photographers. Today was overcast but bright outside so I grabbed my camera and tripod and decided to go outside and shoot. I used a stuff animal as my subject and hanged it up on the fence. The Light was coming from behind slight right of the subject (my left). Now after all the reading online, I learned to be more objective when shooting so I put it to practice today and I had descent results. All this time I’ve been shooting, I learned that the best way to learn is thru hands on training or practice objectively, “keyword objectively”, meaning to concentrate into what you already know. Visualize what you want before shooting, that’s the first step to master your practice to then Practice to master. My first step to master my practice was to apply what I already has learned from all the material online.
1. I wanted the light in back of the subject
2. I wanted a blur background
3. I wanted and open shade
These 3 things I knew I wanted to make my image. Then I needed to set my exposure. Now, to choose my exposure I know I need a wide aperture for my blur background so my starting point was at F2.8 and because of the overcast I decided to pump my iso to 400. Once I had that set, I’m ready to start shooting. Here are the results of my practice. Now keep this in mind, sometimes the best exposure it’s not completely at +0. I have learned that sometimes the overall exposure of your shot isn’t the best exposure for your subject when shooting outside. Sometimes a 2/3 of a stop more or 2/3 of a stop less can really impact the exposure on your subject. Well I hope you learn something from this cause I know I did from my practice today and I wanted to share it with you guys so we can all learn and grow. TIA