Published February 14, 2012 | 
Solving Problems with Indoor Photography
What’s the secret to indoor photography?
When using my camera indoors why do my photos blur?
Problem with Indoor Photography
The biggest problem with indoor photography is the available lighting. Composing a shot and believe that there is adequate lighting is the digest mistake made by most amateur photographers when taking pictures indoors. In automatic modes the shutter speed of most camera will slows down to compensate for the low light conditions. The problem that this causes is due to the slow shutter speed if movement occurs the image will be blurred. Also because the scene is often to dark the end results are often an underexposed imagers.
You can’t easily replicate the same lighting condition indoors as the day light conditions outdoors , because you may not have access to the expensive lighting equipment.
Indoor photography challenges us to seek out alternate means of lighting so that we can get our indoor photography sharp and clear.
- Take a look at the room. Where is the light coming from? Where are the shadow?
- Is there anything in the room you can reflect light off the room. This can be both good and bad. White ceilings and wall can reflect light from a powerful flash to help brighten a dull scene, but if there is a glass windows or door behind you subject that flash light can bounce back at you giving a horrid glare in your image.
- Can you move any objects light laps etc. to improve the lighting.
- If you are using the inbuilt flash on your camera make sure you are not too far back from your subjects. If you subjects are out of you flash range then you need to turn off you flash or it will only darken your subjects.
- When you are in a situation where your camera flash does not have the range/power you need to turn off the flash and adjust your camera to cope with the environment. This is where your cameras ISO setting are required. ISO controls your cameras light sensitivity. The more sensitive to light your camera is the easier indoor photography gets. Most cameras allow you even in automatic mode to manually adjust your ISO setting. There is no one ISO setting recommendation for indoor photography because the amount of light can differ from one room to another, so take several test photo increasing the ISO setting between each image and use the display screen on your digital camera to determine which ISO setting gives the best results
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Setting up your camera. First set the camera to aperture priority mode, then chose the aperture you want and the camera will select the matching shutter speed. e.g. try aperture F5.6 and take the shot. Then look at your shutter speed, because you were in aperture priority mode that camera auto selected the shutter speed. Now change your camera over to manual mode put in the same aperture and set the shutter speed to double the value the camera auto chose for the previous shoot previous shutter. Take another photo and the results should be a image with more stronger colours.
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The smaller the F number the bigger the hole that lets light into your camera sensor. So the larger the F number the small the hole which results in less light getting into your camera.
A small F number means that you can take very fast photos, but you have a very short dept of field. Good for Portrait photography, digiscoping where you want to focus on a specific subject.
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