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Shoot your subjects the way you prefer them ... Using the fundamentals in conjunction with the three basic questions, you can shoot virtually any angle you wish with the subjects you want for your photos. Try an unusual angle if you feel the normal way is too lame or weak. Hey, who knows, the unusual method may produce better results than the conventional angles. Here are some examples:
The 35mm focal length of the EF 20-35mm f/2.8L AFD zoom lens has exaggerated the perspective of the idle fountain and so has the 50mm lens, although the narrower angle-of-view of the latter has masked this tendency altogether. View side-by-side, you will see the resemblance in both shots. The abstract shot of the leaf was done by a normal, fixed focal length 100mm lens, and not the Macro version. It was actually a large leaf, like those from the bunch seen from the shot captured by the 14mm super wide-angle lens. Metering aspects - when do you need to compensate The Evaluative metering, from the original 6-zone series to the 16-zone found on the EOS 5 and EOS-1N/1N RS, as well as the 21-zone and 35-zone versions on the EOS-3 and EOS 300 respectively, are all designed to give their users the proper exposures, based on the film speed used and lighting conditions. Except for the EOS 300 and EOS-3 models, the other EOS models need to be applied with some exposure compensations where necessary, especially with situations having high contrast lighting effects. Knowing by instinct when to apply these compensations to the pictures is another sign of how well you have mastered all required knowledge in photography. The steel whale sculpture, enshrined in the man-made lake of the Petronas Twin Towers' People's Park, appeared exactly the way as I saw it prior to clicking the shot. A 2/3-stop of additional exposure was made to the camera's Evaluative metering suggestion. Reason? The steel sculpture reflected bright highlights that could have fooled the meter, and it being the main subject as well, could have tricked the Evaluative metering into giving the wrong exposure info. The next shot was captured from a different angle, with the exposure now based from the overall surroundings.
If you are using the EOS 300 or
the EOS-3, getting underexposed photos like the one above (backlit modern building)
is out of the question. For EOS models having the older 6-zone or even the 16-zone
series found on the EOS 5 and EOS-1N/1N RS, there is a tendency to underexpose such
shots. The solution? Increase the exposure by 2/3-stop or switch to Partial or Spot
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