I have a fair amount of experience with photography. I studied photography for two years at the university and actually worked for a while as a professional photographer. But all of this was years ago using film cameras with full manual controls. For the past couple years I have been playing with digital cameras and having lots of trouble. I just can't seem to get the lighting right when shooting guns. They are tough, anyway, with dark areas and reflective surfaces. But I keep getting either way too dark or way too light with no middle ground.
While practicing some photo work the past two days I think I realized the trouble. The automatic camera keeps wanting to open the aperture wide open when shooting indoors. Then when I apply flash it doesn't compensate and the scene is washed out. I realized this when I noticed the extremely shallow depth of field in the recent photos indicating that the aperture is wide open.
So, I need to tinker with the camera settings and see if I can get it to use a smaller aperture. I may have to go to full manual control and set it for what I want, which I can do, but I've been trying to get the camera to work using auto settings.
Anyway, here are a couple of shots I took while tinkering. Still needs work.
While practicing some photo work the past two days I think I realized the trouble. The automatic camera keeps wanting to open the aperture wide open when shooting indoors. Then when I apply flash it doesn't compensate and the scene is washed out. I realized this when I noticed the extremely shallow depth of field in the recent photos indicating that the aperture is wide open.
So, I need to tinker with the camera settings and see if I can get it to use a smaller aperture. I may have to go to full manual control and set it for what I want, which I can do, but I've been trying to get the camera to work using auto settings.
Anyway, here are a couple of shots I took while tinkering. Still needs work.