Olympus E-20 E-20N Reference Manual (English) - Page 53
Shooting Techniques: General Introduction - e 20 manual
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Shooting Techniques: General Introduction This chapter briefly introduces some basic techniques you can apply to different situations and shoot beautiful professional looking pictures to achieve the effects that you want, even if you have little experience using a camera. Portraits. You can vary the aperture setting to blur portrait background, adjust flash, and select a different metering mode to create artistic effects in portraits. Portraits (Backlit subjects). By lighting a subject from behind with backlighting, you can soften shadows on the face and add highlight to the outlines of the subject's hair. Subject in daylight shadow. Even with sufficient light on the subject, you can set the flash to fire and reduce daylight shadows on the subject and get beautiful results. Subject and background both in focus. There will be occasions when you want to change the aperture value to ensure accurate focusing of background scenery, or to make sure that all subjects in a large group picture are in focus. Moving subjects. You can set a fast shutter speed to capture fast moving subjects sharply frozen in time, or set a slow shutter speed and show them in blurred motion. Close-up. After setting the camera in the macro mode, you can shoot subjects as close as 20 cm from the lens for detailed nature shots. 3 Night scenes. You can use slow shutter speeds in combination with lower ISO settings to experiment with shooting night scenes or other dark subjects. Night scenes (Noise Reduction). When you need to increase the exposure time, set the camera in the noise reduction mode to reduce noise and achieve a more attractive image. Subject against a night scene background. When you shoot a subject with a flash against a night background, you can use slow shutter speeds to achieve a variety of artistic effects. Sunsets and fireworks. By adjusting white balance and using manual focusing, you can extend the range of creativity in your color pictures.