Chayce Vanthuyne's Education Blog

Understanding tracking focus and continuous shooting While I was snapping some photos of a turtle last week, I discovered that I can turn on tracking focus while in P mode (Program auto mode). As I previously discussed, tracking focus allows me to shoot objects that are moving while auto-adjusting the shutter speed and aperture. I had talked about possibly taking some photos of larger animals with this mode, but I began to wonder if that would show just how handy…

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Last week, I might have jumped the gun. I followed my friend’s advice and pretty much stuck solely to the manual mode on my camera. As a result, many of my photos turned out quite poor. They were incredibly dark and contained no colour; they were solely black and white. I was frustrated but optimistic, the pictures I had shot on the auto setting turned out just fine so it had to be something that I was doing wrong, not…

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This week for my learning project, I tried to familiarize myself with my camera and the meaning behind much of its terminology. Over the weekend I visited a friend of mine who has been a photographer in western Canada for most of his life. He has even won a couple of competitions in Saskatchewan. During our conversation, he explained to me the basics of his camera by breaking down its moving parts. In order to get the most personalized feel…

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