May 08, 2009

Photography workshop

On Saturday April 25th, I went to a photography workshop in Moncton (NB Canada).
The instructor was Clarence Nowlan. During the class we covered all and I mean all of the basic techniques of photography.

I learned a few new tricks. Like the "Peacock shot".

First you put your camera in "aperture-priority"(the setting that you can chose the lighting) (the "A" or "Av").
Remember that the higher F stop the less light.
Then the will automatically chose de shutter speed.
Next put the camera in F22.
Finaly you put a 10 second self timer and put your eye in the view finder. If you do not have a view finder this will not work for you.
Now take a picture and hold the button till it takes the picture and when you hold the button tilt your head like this...



Here is the final resalt...

pikok








Nicolas