How to Choose the Correct Camera Settings

When it comes to landscape photography, you can create a multitude of images using an identical composition simply by varying your settings. If you are newer to the genre and wondering how to choose the right shutter speed, aperture, and ISO values for a given image, this fantastic video tutorial will walk you through several real-life examples to help you gain more confidence in your abilities. 

Coming to you from Nigel Danson, this great video tutorial will show you how to choose the right camera settings for a landscape photo. In some genres (such as sports), you are generally shooting for a specific type of photo — sharp, frozen action with subject-isolating depth of field, for example. However, in landscape photography, there are often several ways to obtain a technically correct exposure of the same scene, with each different combination of settings yielding unique creative realizations. As such, gaining mastery of camera settings is crucial to being able to take your creative vision and translate it into real-world results, and once you do that, you will find you can get many more images from the same scene just by varying basic parameters. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Danson. 

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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