A guy with a camera but without a clue
This is one of those occasions where different photographers will have different opinions about what modes to use in which scenarios, so this is my take on the subject rather than a definitive guide. Also, everything written here is from the perspective
First of all a disclaimer, this post isn’t me, as an expert motorsports photographer, explaining what settings one should use for motorsports photography, this is me as a complete novice explaining what settings I think I should be using and my reasoning
To take a correctly exposed photograph (i.e. not too dark and not too bright), a camera uses a combination of “aperture” and “shutter speed” to determine how much light hits the sensor, “aperture” being the size of the hole in the lens
I bought my Nikon D3300 from Currys as it came bundled with a zoom lens and I knew I’d need one, my main hobby being motorsports, which generally requires a zoom lens to get close enough to the action. The camera came
Strictly speaking my first DSLR isn’t my first SLR, I had a Praktica and a Fuji SLR in my late teens / early 20’s, back in the days when you put film in them and everything was done manually, no auto-focus or
My mum has many old black and white photos hidden away throughout her house, most of them in photo albums to be fair, but they were stored all over the place with photos popping out here and there in the most unexpected