Today we went to Yellowwood State Forest, which we do about this time every year. Brown County, Indiana in October is always very visually appealing due to the forests and everything doing their autumn thing. One year the weather was dreary, so I was the idiot doing my photography in black and white. (insert link to previous post/photos) Today I decided to do something I’ve never done before…I equipped my bag with nothing but DSL’s (Nikon D3100 and D3500 and a Canon 40D) and Automatic lenses.
Nothing manual. At all.
I will say this, I felt like I had virtually no control over my visual compositions. Point, click, let the camera do the work.
I was not a fan. The way I tend to use the light has been described as “interestingly awesome” by more than a few people and automatic settings just do not allow that kind of customization. The camera captures what it sees in the way it thinks is best.
Which is fine. I would guess the majority of people who take pictures of things want to have an image that is more or less how it actually looks so they can have an accurate memory. I take pictures of nature, primarily, and I try to go more for feeling. I can go out on a dreary or rainy day and get something that is visually striking:
On a day where the sky is as dreary and gray as this:
Manual settings on a digital camera are a must for me. There was just something too sterile about this one:
(Canon 40D w/Canon 35-80 automatic lens)
Versus this:
(Nikon D40X w/Maybe my beat to hell Spiratone 135 manual lens).
But that is just me and I am weird.
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