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How to photograph anything
In my opening preface about this guidebook I stated “I've purposely
avoided giving detailed information on how to take specific types of
images such as “travel pictures”, “sports pictures”.
Instead I have tried to concentrate on giving you the tips and techniques
for using the features of the Panasonic Lumix FZ200 to take any kind of
image you want”.
Well that statement is true. To photography “anything” just requires you
to analyse the subject and ask yourself the following questions:
Is the principal, or most important, factor one in which I will require the
most, or the least, depth of field? If so then this will determine that the
Aperture priority mode will be required to allow you to set an aperture
that will give you this amount of depth of field at the lens focal length you
have chosen.
Or is it that you require to capture some kind of image motion, being that
deliberate blurring or capturing absolute freezing of the action? Then this
will require you to select a Shutter priority mode to enable you to set the
required shutter speed to capture this effect.
Or is a combination of depth of field and a requirement to capture some
sense of motion either blurred or frozen action shot?
Then this will dictate that you will have to use the manual exposure
mode so that you can set aperture and shutter to the required values and
then use the ISO control to provide the correct exposure.
Let’s look at the principal elements of the exposure again.
DOF or depth of field is determined by three components;
The focal length of the lens
The aperture of the lens
The distance of the subject to the lens
In the case of the focal length of the lens, if the focal length is small, e.g.
wide angle or 25mm (equivalent) then inherently the DOF is quite large
at all subject to lens distances.
If we were to take a picture of a subject that is very close to the lens,
then we would see that the subject and a large amount of the
background would also appear to be in sharp focus. This is true even if
the aperture was wide open, or a value of f2.8 in the case of the FZ200.
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