Chapter 1 Predicting Your Environment and Settings

Predicting your settings so you are ready to shoot
TOPICS THAT WILL BE COVERED:
-Learning to identify the primary environments that we shoot in
-Understanding the building blocks that create up the exposure triangle
-How aperture, ISO, and shutter speed effects your story
-Learning the rules of shooting in manual so that you can break them when you are ready
-Understand the effect of light and how quickly it can change your settings
-Learn the “safe-zones” of shooting so that you can better guide your artistic vision
-Asking the questions to predict your settings
-Metering and the reasons why you can’t trust it
-When I choose to underexpose and when I overexpose and what I am risking by choosing one to lead my artistic vision
-Raw vs. Jpeg