{"id":227,"date":"2008-11-23T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T20:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/?p=227"},"modified":"2008-11-23T12:20:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T20:20:18","slug":"new-shooting-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/23\/new-shooting-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"New Shooting Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many photographers, I use a remote release when shooting landscape photography.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 So that I don&#8217;t jiggle the camera when I push the shutter button.\u00a0 (The camera is on a sturdy tripod of course.)\u00a0 However, I found a better way to keep the camera steady.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Many digital SLRs give you the option of locking the mirror in the up position before releasing the shutter.\u00a0 However, this is not the most convenient thing to do.\u00a0 You first have to turn on the mirror lockup function burried somewhere in the camera&#8217;s menu.\u00a0 Then to take an image you need to press the shutter once to lock the mirror in the upright position and press the shutter again to snap the image.\u00a0 OK, so you still need a remote release so you aren&#8217;t touching the camera when you press the shutter.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s an even easier way to do this.\u00a0 You can use the shutter timer feature.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how it works.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn on the mirror lockup feature, again buried in your camera&#8217;s menu<\/li>\n<li>Turn on the self timer feature, usually available as a &#8216;drive&#8217; control button on your camera.\u00a0 The timer will run for 2 or 10 seconds depending on the options in your camera.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re ready to go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So when the camera is set up in this way when you press the shutter the mirror flips up right away, the timer counts down the prescribed number of seconds and then the shutter trips &#8211; automatically.\u00a0\u00a0There you have it\u00a0&#8211; you don&#8217;t need to use a remote release.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re bracketing for HDR or whatever, it gets even better.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re bracketing 3 shots.\u00a0 So, with the camera configured in this way you press the shutter, the camera counts down the seconds and then fires off the three shots.\u00a0 Cool!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the advantage of this method?\u00a0 Well, when the mirror flips up it causes a small vibration to travel through your camera and lens.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why discerning photogrphers prefer to look the mirror in the up position before releasing the shutter.\u00a0 With this technique it becomes very easy.\u00a0 When the shutter is pressed the mirror flips up sending faint but potentially noticeable vibrations through the camera.\u00a0 But the timer lets the camera settle back down for anywhere from 2 to 10 seconds.\u00a0 Finally the shutter is released &#8211; once if you&#8217;re taking a single exposure or multiple times if you&#8217;re bracketing.\u00a0 The result is even sharper images.<\/p>\n<p>So why not give it a try.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll bet you will really like it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"227\"> (663)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many photographers, I use a remote release when shooting landscape photography.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 So that I don&#8217;t jiggle the camera when I push the shutter button.\u00a0 (The camera is on a sturdy tripod of course.)\u00a0 However, I found a better way to keep the camera steady. 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