Playing with Aperture Priority Setting

My new Canon 30d has tons of features, but what I’m really starting to love is the Aperture Priority mode, where I can “stop” the camera up or down and the shutter speed will follow accordingly based on the lighting conditions of the subject.  This feature really gives the photographer a lot of creative possibilities, as well as to appropriately control depth of field through forcing the aperture settings.  This type of control makes shooting a camera much different than the “point and shoot” mode, even on a camera of this quality; which produces nice photos in “auto” mode.

In this example, I stopped down pretty low, kept the flash off, and basically threw the foreground of the keyboard out of focus while keeping the upper register of the keyboard sharp.

Learning to control the shots, and even predict the outcome before you click the shutter button has been a great learning experience!  Stay tuned for some examples of Shutter Priority mode on some moving objects this weekend.  And don’t forget about my 70-300 mm lens, which arrives tomorrow.  I’m planning on finding something far away and zooming right up to it from a safe distance.  Big updates to the Flickr album in the next week or so.

Stay tuned!

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