Shoot Images with a Digital SLR
When you shoot images with a digital SLR, you have the utmost in creative
freedom. You can capture images with a wide array of lenses??”everything from
a super wide-angle fish-eye lens to a long telephoto lens with a focal length
of 500 mm or greater. You can use a wide-angle lens to record a picturesque
landscape and then quickly change to a telephoto lens to capture a close-up
of a distant animal. Figure 2-3 shows two shots of a digital SLR, one with a
Figure 2-2: High-end digital cameras often
feature a high optical zoom.
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super wide zoom lens attached and one with a telephoto zoom lens
attached.
1. Select the proper lens for the scene you are going to capture, and swap it
with the current lens.
2. Turn the camera mode dial to select the desired shooting mode. If you
choose one of the creative modes, you??™ll need to adjust the shutter speed,
aperture, or both. Creative modes are covered in detail in the section
???Shoot Images Using Creative Shooting Modes.???
3. Choose the proper metering mode for the scene. Metering modes will be
covered in detail in the section ???Choose the Proper Metering Mode.
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