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AI Servo with Action Shots

Photography 101

Lesson 30 of 55

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AI Servo with Action Shots

Okay, so I'm back here on my nikon I'm on the defense to hundred again this time on the eighty five millimeter because what we're going to hear is a little bit different this is the situation where I would use the servo where the continuous cerebral functions only go ahead and turn it on right now I'm gonna go ahead and go into the quick shooting menu and we're going to turn on the focus mode we're gonna go into continuous servo a f I'm also going to select the area mode again, we're going to use the same single point and because I wanted to be as accurate as possible, but in the continuous servant mode we do have other options available. Other area options available, so if you aren't sure exactly where you want to be focusing, choose an area option because it will give you a little more kind of leeway to get the focus, but I'm gonna go a single point. What are these area options that prize talking about when it comes to a f or auto focus? Well, depending on your camera, you're gonna h...

ave different area options when it comes to a f for example, here I've got a much more advanced camera I have got a five mark three and on this camera we can enter into the select f area mode and when you're using the single f point we can actually expand the area to surround or create zones around that a f point, so if you wanna have spot level a f control, but then you want a little more leeway for moving subject, you might use a spot f with an f area surround, which will use all the points around that selected a f point to focus a lot of f to talk about, but these types of modes give you a little more room for error, but remember that they also come at a cost because you lose a little bit of control over which exact point is being used for focusing, so it might not be something you want to use when let's say you're shooting a portrait because, well, I'm portrait's we generally want to use the most accurate single point f for focusing, but it might be useful when you're shooting moving objects like in the scene that price shooting right now so let's, get back to that video with continuous servo. The reason I always say to be careful is because your center point is always going to be the strongest point your camera, and this means that if you're using a center based composition and I serve, it typically will work. Really, really well when you're using a continuous servo on a servo mode, the problem is that if you're using any of these outside a f points well, you're likely going to get a lot of miss focused images and that's why during, say, a wedding processional even when they're coming straight down the aisle, we still would often use single shot because I'd rather shoot and refocus on every single shot, maybe have one or two there miss focused than let's say I serve a handle it and kind of missed a bunch of them, but this is one of compositions that I several work totally fine because we're in a bright situation I'm also going to use the center composition framing you vet right in the middle as she runs right along the line, so we're going to use in the centre a half point everything is set up for this to work correctly so in my settings the other options that I have enabled is for my continuous mode I have instead of shooting single frame I'm student continuous high speed okay there's gonna louse to capture multiple frames she's running through and this is really the strength of the survey mo because we can capture ah bunch of shots in a row she's running towards us and they all should at least be sharp okay, so you better are you ready? I'm going to go ahead and let me dial on my settings real quick. I'm just gonna get a quick test shot we've been using around, um, a hundred, a hundred shutter speed and around f two and one hundred s, so so let me just double check to make sure that our history and looks good and it does a hundred shutter speed is going to keep her frozen even when she starts getting close. Now, as the action gets closer to the frame as it gets closer to the camera, you need to be using a higher shutter speed to completely freeze it. So eight hundred is going to be completely adequate, okay, that you're ready to run. All right, let's, run through, I'm going to keep her in the center of the frame and we're going to shoot right when she gets kind of that midpoint gonna keep firing locker in and we're going to go until we get an awesome expression, okay, that go for it now, if you notice my camera is kind of choking very quickly and this is because I'm shooting rob plus jpeg shooting rod in and of itself is going to slow down the cameras buffer like we've talked about before, so if you want to shoot fast and raw is not giving enough. For you then switch over to j peg right now I'm shooting rob plus j peg so we're writing as much information well, basically as the camera can, and so we're kind of choking up around five, six images I'm gonna go ahead and switch to j paige right now and just to kind of show you guys that we can get a few more when we're shooting in j peg and the burst modes what I am going to do first, though, is just make sure that all my settings are perfect when you're shooting j peg it's even more important that you dialing all the exact settings that you need from from the picture control down to the exact settings for your shutter speed after night. So for your overall exposure and everything and we're solid right now, so we're gonna go ahead and shoot this andrzej big sleeping get a few extra shots out of it already, but go ahead and run it again. All right? Did you notice that time how we got more shots? We probably got double the amount of shots before the camera had to stop and transfer the images over the memory card and it looks like we got several good shots of better okay, hopefully you understand the difference is now between single shot versus servo modes and also basically the strength of each of them which situations worked best for single shot versus which situations work best for servo. Kind of the overall weaknesses and different situations where each of these modes might have a hard time. Also remember that we do have that third kind of automated mode where it chooses between single shot or this servo mode for us, but again, that's a mode that I typically would not want the camera to handle for me. I want to take control of that for myself. Okay, so the assignment this time is to basically go and shoot some sports or action. I want you guys to try out the different modes that you have available after you get a shot that you like, uploaded to s our lounge and tell everybody about it. What was your experience? What if mo did you use? Did you notice any shortcomings? What helped you out and so forth? That's it for this video and we'll see you on the next one.

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AI Servo with Action Shots

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