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54 APPLYING | PROGRAM MODE

FINE-TUNING EXPOSURE

Photographing groups of people, whether on the setting to use. Program is the best mode to begin with,
street or at a social event, can be challenging. You will as it provides all the benefits of automated exposure
be moving around and will need to shoot fast. It is a but allows you to alter the shutter speed and aperture
good idea to check out the location or venue first, if you want to. It also usually maintains a shutter speed
to identify the best places to shoot from, find out that is fast enough to avoid camera shake. Make sure
whether there may be any issues with the lighting or to shoot in Raw, as you will be able to correct exposure
exposure, and to decide which White Balance (WB) in postproduction more easily than in JPEG.

PLAN YOUR SHOTS SELECT PROGRAM AND THE ISO SET THE WHITE BALANCE
Social events can be chaotic, but The light levels are bound to change The best preset depends on where
you can plan shots to some extent by as you move around. Select Program mode you are (see pp.44-45). Indoors, go with
watching people’s behavior. Look for and set your camera to Auto ISO, so that either Tungsten or Fluorescent, or Auto
areas where they tend to gather, such the ISO automatically changes depending WB if under mixed lighting. If you are
as around the food and drinks. on the ambient light levels. outdoors, it depends on the weather.

CHECK THE EXPOSURE USE PROGRAM SHIFT
Review your images as you shoot to check the exposure. If you want to use a wider aperture—to blur a background,
If they are too dark or too bright, use Exposure Compensation for example—you can use Program Shift to temporarily
to modify the exposure. Raise it to make your photos brighter, override the shutter speed and aperture settings selected by
or lower it to make them darker. Program. You usually do this with the camera’s control wheel.

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