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Can you believe that this photo was taken by Nora when she was 13? Yep, 13 and shooting in manual mode. No, she’s not a child photography prodigy, just someone who was taught a simple workflow for focusing and exposing properly.
These two aspects of photography–focus and exposure–are critically important to capturing a shot like this. Prior to shooting, Varina had already advised Nora to use her camera’s auto focus tracking mode and to keep focusing squarely on the bird’s eye in her viewfinder. When the cormorant emerged from the water with a big fish in its beak, Nora was ready. Or at least she thought she was ready.
When Nora saw the bird catching the fish, she grabbed her camera and started shooting right away. Watching over her shoulder, Varina quietly suggested that she check her histogram. In the panic of the moment, she was worried that she’d miss the shot.
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When she nervously glanced at her histogram, however, she saw that her photos were severely underexposed (above image). She made a very quick manual adjustment and took several more shots as the bird swallowed the fish whole.
If she hadn’t taken that moment to check her histogram, she would have been left without a single shot of that fantastic moment. Quick thinking and an understanding of her histogram made for a beautiful action shot!
Even a 13-year old can learn to read a histogram and make manual adjustments to her camera’s settings. It’s easy! Here are some more images Nora took that day using her focusing skills and her knowledge of histograms.
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Moments like this one motivated us to create our video course called Histograms Exposed. In this course, we provide a simple, four-step workflow to help you fine tune your histogram so that you can be sure you are getting a proper exposure every single time you shoot. Furthermore, when you combine this course with Joshua Cripps’ Adobe Camera Raw Course, you will get a firsthand look at how a professional exposes and edits an image from start to finish.
To help you master these skills for yourself and finally leave the guesswork out of choosing an exposure, we are offering our Histogram Exposed & Adobe Camera course as part of our May, 2016 InFocus Deals.
About Author Jay Patel
I could startoff like this – “Seeds of Jay Patel’s appreciation for beautiful places were planted early in his childhood….” but it would get boring really fast. I will just sum it up and say that I am a Landscape and Wilderness Photographer who loves to capture dramatic light. My photographs have been published in various magazines, calendars and advertising materials throughout the world.
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