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Canon 5D Mark III Experience
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to confidently use the ones that turn your Canon 5D Mk III into an image capturing tool
that works best for you and the photographic situations you work in.
1.1 Take Control of Your Camera
Since the camera is a tool to take the images you want to take, you obviously can’t
always allow the camera to make decisions for you. You have to take control of the
camera to ensure that you capture exactly the images you intend - by autofocusing
precisely where you want, setting the aperture or shutter speed that you want, and
obtaining the exposure you want. While the 5D Mk III is an intelligent camera, it cannot
read your mind and your intentions and does not know that you wish to focus on and
properly expose the small blossoms in the foreground, while making the background
appear out of focus, and the branches to be caught still and not be blurred from the
motion of the wind, on this bright, sunny day (see Figure 2). You have to tell the
camera to do all of this, through the various controls and settings, such as the autofocus
AF Mode and AF Area Selection Mode (focus on the blossoms), the Exposure Metering
Mode (properly expose the blossoms), the Aperture setting (the out-of-focus
background), the Shutter Speed (freezing the motion of the branches), the ISO (bright
day) and the White Balance (sunny day).
Figure 2 - Japanese Garden, Brooklyn, NY - Autofocus modes, exposure metering
mode, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance all considered in creating this
image. Shutter speed 1/125, aperture f/6.3, ISO 200.