ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
Lesson 5 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
Lesson 5 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lesson Info
5. ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
Lessons
Introduction
01:02 2Finding the Light
01:12 3Crafting Composition
00:49 4Histogram and Spot Metering
01:50 5ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
02:49 6Taking the Shot
02:12 7Capturing an HDR Image
02:23 8Shooting in Manual Mode Recap
01:18Introduction to Lightroom:
00:51 10Lightroom: Importing Albums and Organization
01:53 11Lightroom: Sorting and Ranking Images
01:11 12Lightroom: Auto Adjustments
01:03 13Lightroom: Color Profiles
01:17 14Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
01:47 15Lightroom: Gradients
01:21 16Lightroom: Brush Tool
00:56 17Lightroom: Copy and Paste Settings
01:07 18Lightroom: Contrast, Exposure and Saturation
01:00 19Lightroom: Healing Brush to Remove Objects
03:39 20Lightroom: Export and Share
00:46 21Photoshop: Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects
03:32 22Photoshop: Stamp Tool
01:11 23Photoshop: Dodge and Burn
02:07 24Photoshop: Basic Adjustments
01:02 25Photoshop: Adding Clouds
01:54 26Photoshop: Quick Selection Tool
02:36 27Photoshop: Sharing your Images
00:34Lesson Info
ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
So at this point, I'm getting perfect light. I'm getting a nice crest of light on the cactus. I'm getting that beautiful light back on the mountain. So, I have highlights on one side, I have shadows on the other side. The lake is a beautiful blue because the light is hitting at that perfect angle, and I'm getting this crest of light on all of my foreground elements. So, I'm ready to take the shot and what I'm doing here is I'm exposing at 100 ISO because I want to have the absolute cleanest photograph I can. The higher the ISO, the more grain, the more noise. The lower the ISO, the cleaner the shot's going to be. And I want this to be as clean as possible so I can blow it up as big as possible. So, you wanna keep your ISO as low as you possibly can. The second thing I have is my aperture. So, the aperture is what's going to determine how much I have in focus here. I want the cactus to be in focus but I also want the background to be in focus and they are a long way apart which means I ...
need a really large depth of field. So, I'm gonna take my aperture up, the number, up. I'm at F11. The higher that number goes, the more depth of field I have. If I take it all the way down to, like, 2.8 or F4, I'm gonna have very little depth of field and only the cactus will be in focus. I want the foreground, I want the cactus and I want the background all in focus. So, I choose F11, which means, I've got ISO 100 at F11. The only other thing I have is my shutter speed. That's what's going to determine my exposure because the other two control how clean it is and how much depth of field I have. And I'll determine what shutter speed I'm gonna use based on my histogram. Now the shutter speed is simply the amount of time that the camera opens up the shutter to receive light, and the longer that shutter speed is open, the more blur you get. The faster that shutter speed is, the more it will freeze action. Because I'm on a tripod, which I don't normally use but when I'm doing landscape, I will often do it. Because I'm on a tripod, I can take that shutter speed as low as I want. Meaning, I can go to a 50th of a second, or a 20th of a second, or an hour if I want. And so, right now, I'm going to choose an 80th of a second and the reason I'm choosing an 80th is because I can see inside of my histogram right here, that at an 80th of a second, I don't have any shadows clipping on the left-hand side of my histogram and I don't have any highlights clipping on the right side of my histogram.
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