::Basic Photography 101..tips, guides..etc

[teeemoy]

Noob here. Need your help mga master! What's a good aperture setting for shooting group pictures? Like more or less 10 people ba ron. How do i keep everyone sharp? I have a problem with my shots kay naay uban na ma out of focus. And also, if i'm using center point autofocus, asa man nila nako ifocus? In the middle of the group? Ang nearest person naku? The farthest? Or is it better if iactivate nalang naku tanan AF points? Please help! Salamat daan.

ako, if ok ang light, like if outdoors on a sunny day i take group shots at f/16. i do f/8 if hapon2x gamay. and i do f/4 in lowlight.

Even at f/2.8, you can still capture all your subjects with the same sharpness regardless of their distance from one another (DOF). The trick there is, you just have to distance yourself from your subjects so that the DOF will increase.

For example: Try taking a shot of a flower 1 foot away. You'll notice the Bokeh in the background regardless of your f-stop. Now back up to 5 feet and take a shot of the same flower. The Bokeh lessens and you'll have a deeper DOF. The same is applicable to group shots.

Thanks to dbgg1979 for pointing this out to me a while back.

[akizuki]

I agree pod na start ug f/8 kasagaran. Or f/5.6 murag ok pa ghpon. The problem with 2.8 is taas au ang percentage na dili focused tanan labi na kay 10 people iya giingon. Though dili pasabot na if 2.8, sayop na. Ang point is most likely dili mafocused tanan. And the problem if group picture, impatient kasagaran tawo so you have to shoot fast... and right. Mao agree ko sa start ug f8. Pero if gagamit ug flash, mga f4-f5.6 cguro ko para dli kau dugay magrecycle ang flash. Remember, impatient kasagaran. Hehe. Mao rapod ako ikatampo. Amen.

Ab nako ako rai nagka problema ani hehehehe...salamat ky normal ra d i ko hehehehe. I usually do f/8 but I really don't have any basis for that setting. I just feel nga na standard cya ba ky kasagaran sa ako nabasahan mu start jud cla from f/8 then from there adjust adjust na dayon.

[pranix]

Murag majority nga naka online dire nga nag photography naa na digital camera.

Another tip I can share is "do a custom white balance" based on the light temperature kung asa imong subject.
I used to shoot with auto white balance but found out that a custom white balance setting will always nail the best color. I save all photos in RAW and RAW processing is done with Bibble on a Linux system.
Custom white balance will save you a lot of time during post processing (digital photos do require post processing).

Another tip, shoot and save RAW with AdobeRGB as color profile, save processed photos for web display with sRGB color profile.

As much as possible when doing photography, do it right the first time just like those times when you're still using film (mas maayo kung nakaabot pa ka ug gamit ug film) .

why man save in RAW? dagko raba file size ana.

[open253]

salamat.,.helpful kaau,.hehe,.hinay2 kug basa2,.starting to learn,.hehe

[D5LR]

RAW files ky mka PP pa ka na dili maguba ang image compared sa JPEG. sakto ba ko mga master dha?
mao mn sd ako gamit RAW, but after nku mgpicture, ako i-save sa PC den format SDcard. dako jd cxa compared sa JPEG

[tingwaltz]

Noob here. Need your help mga master! What's a good aperture setting for shooting group pictures? Like more or less 10 people ba ron. How do i keep everyone sharp? I have a problem with my shots kay naay uban na ma out of focus. And also, if i'm using center point autofocus, asa man nila nako ifocus? In the middle of the group? Ang nearest person naku? The farthest? Or is it better if iactivate nalang naku tanan AF points? Please help! Salamat daan.

suway kog share ha...
Bro try to set ur Autofocus settings to Area Mode then press AF Button to AF-A aron mafocus tanan imong subject. Sa ako lang nahibaw-an ha...

[bruce824]

learned a lot from you guys...newbie here..

[euijin]

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[krokignol]

newbie here. subscribing....still digesting all the information! THANX GUYS!

[kok3n]

newbie question here para sa mga master.. do you always shoot in manual mode or mogamit sad mo ug priority mode like apperture priority mode or shutter speed priority mode?

thanks guys..