nobody will be yelled at here, and white ballance is beneficial, and i have two olympus cameras, can't say i have ever used the scene modes, but then again, oh wait, once i played with the macro mode in there. Anyways, here is the first effect i will discuss: how to capture motion.
So say you are out at a car or a bike event, really any kind of moving sport, and this works best with vehicle sports, be that a bycicle race or a drifting event, it produces motion blurs that give the picture the sensation of a moving object, rather than a stationary freeze-frame.
So how do we capture motion in a still? Setting your camera on auto on a sunny day will most likely get you a shutter speed of about 1/120th or higher at f11 or so, actually a maybe even faster with a higher ISO, so any shot you take of a moving vehicle will be rather frozen in time. To get the motion, you might want to bring your shutter up to about 1/60th of a second, and move the camera to try to keep the object that is moving still in the frame. On bicycles, cars, bikes, this motion blurs the background motion blurs the wheels, and freezes the main subject giving one a perception of a moving object
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if you need to bring down shutter speed, you need to firstly change your iso to something lower if you can, adjust your shutter and play your F till you get the exposure you are looking for.
Give you an example, i was shooting with my friend's camera this sunday at the lot, i had ambient at 1/200 at f8 on iso 320. To get my desired effect i sat the iso to 100, dropped the shutter to 1/60th and set it to f11 to properly expose the picture (which seemed overexposed on auto anyways) (once i find the pictures, i'll show you what i got out of it) but the effect was visible, and seemed to capture motion fairly well. I will actually probably make a post here on comparison shots of what standard all auto gives you, and what an effect you can achieve to attempt to capture motion
tomorrow i will discuss a slightly more aggressive adjustment, in order to light paint, express traffic on a road without showing cars and take pictures of fireworks...
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