Jun 27, 2025

Guided exercise 2

Dejan
Guided Exercises

This kind of exercise is intended as the final preparation for the practical exercises. By analyzing the photograph, you are tasked with identifying the key elements and recommending the camera settings required to capture it. While in the field, you can practice shooting similar photographs with various adjustments, which will broaden your knowledge and skills. Furthermore, this section aims to demonstrate how to learn from the work of other photographers.

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Make your best effort before referring to the insights and advice provided below the photo.

Observations

This is an image of a moving subject, captured sharply with a shallow depth of field.

Main priority

Freeze the movement and capture the subject sharply.

Considerations

The subject is captured sharply, which implies a sufficiently fast shutter speed to freeze the movement. A shallow depth of field is achieved by employing a telelens/long focal length combined with a low f-number.

If you have a high-performance camera and a fast lens, you can utilize the focus settings for moving subjects, AF-C/AI SERVO and automatic AF points, to track the subject. If your camera is not able to adequately support this focus technique, you can opt for the focus settings for stationary subjects, AF-S/ONE SHOT and a single AF point, and pre-focus.

When it comes to adjusting exposure, the photographer can use exposure compensation in the shutter priority mode or manually modify the aperture, shutter speed, or ISO in the manual exposure mode.

Exposure mode: shutter priority or manual

Aperture: f/4 or lower (in the manual mode)

Shutter speed: 1/500 or faster

ISO: high enough to allow handheld photography and the necessary shutter speed to freeze the movement

Focus mode: AF-S/ONE SHOT or AF-C/AI SERVO

Focus points: single point or automatic points

White balance: automatic