All Forces

I’ve enjoyed owning a Nikon 4500 digital camera for a few years now. It has a swivel mechanism that allows me to take pictures of myself while looking at the lcd screen, it has an optional wide angle lens I use often on tight places and overall it takes decent pictures in auto mode. But it wasn’t until a new friend from Denmark, Henrik Jønsby, showed me the tricks of the 4500 a few months ago. It has given new life to my old faithful camera.

The picture above is a prime example. My wife took the one on the left on auto mode then she passed the camera to see if I can get a good picture of it on manual mode. WOW! what a difference. I took that picture in Aperture Priority Mode which let’s me set the depth of field (or how far should the camera focus) and set it at 3.5. I changed the White Balance to outdoors since the light was coming from our front window. In automatic mode it was thinking I was indoors, that’s why the one on the left is yellowish. I set the ISO to 100 since it was daylight and adjusted the exposure to my liking. The best thing is that any change made to these settings are automatically visible, for the most part, in the screen. So as you can see, reading the manual, or becoming friends with someone that has does pay off. It’s time to find that old manual you never got to!