Canon G10: Set for Landscape Scene
Landscapes are very popular pictures and they’re very easy to set up the camera in order to take a landscape.
First what’s a landscape? Landscape basically you want everything to be in focus, everything from the foreground to the background, so one way of doing this very easily if the camera does have a landscape scene mode go ahead and turn the mode dial to SCN. SCN is scene and in here you can find a whole bunch of different scenes. Right now I’m at kids and pets and I can use this little dial to move that around and I can choose landscape, here we go.
Once landscape is chosen, the camera is optimized to try and make everything beyond focus, so lets go and try and get you the smallest up at your possible given the amount of light. The ISO is set to automatic; my flash is turned off which is good, but my white balance is also set to automatic. Now we are outdoors, so that’s probably fine because the automatic white balance is really beast for outdoor pictures not so much for indoor pictures. But it’s still really better to set that white balance which is why I don‘t like using this mode so much.
You do go ahead and use this mode, it’s very simple. I’ve set the mode press the shutter button halfway. The camera will find the focus point and go ahead and take the picture. Now notice this is interesting that I’m in this mode that is supposed to get everything in focus but my aperture is set to F4 which is pretty wide and that’s not the best for getting absolutely everything in focus, so this again is why I don’t like using this automated mode. What I would recommend instead of using the landscape mode is simply using the aperture clarity mode.
Now the sound is complicated but it’s really quite simple, go ahead and turn your mode dial, and normally remember we use the P mode and this can be fine too but for really the best result go ahead and use AV, AV stands Aperture Value and this is basically allows you to set the aperture of the camera while it sets the shutter speed accordingly depending on the amount of light. And you can see already down here in the AV mode, we have the F8, this is our aperture setting and I have these little green arrows which mean I can use the dial to change that setting.
My flash is turned off which is great, if yours is not turned off I recommend doing so by pressing the flash button right here. I’m using the dial to choose either on or off, go with off because the flash is not going to do anything with landscapes. The white balance is currently set to daylight which is great. We are outdoors, if yours is not set to daylight, if it’s set to automatic or if you don’t see anything that means its set to automatic so go ahead and press your shortcut button, to set your camera that way I did in the getting started guide. The shortcut button will quickly access your white balance and use the dial, go ahead and set to daylight or cloudy depending on your situation. Press set, no my ISO is set to 80, my flash is turned off and my white balance is set to daylight and finally down here use your dial to change, you can change this, you go to 2.8 this is a very, very wide aperture and will not get everything in focus, it will get very, very little in focus. So you want just the opposite. You want F8; this is a very small aperture and will get everything possible in focus so we have our focusing square. You want to focus on the horizon, place the focusing square over the horizon, press the shutter button halfway the camera will lock focus on the horizon then you can go ahead and move this around so it’s composed the way you want. If you want more of the land or more of the sky, put the horizon on either top third or the bottom third and then once you’re ready go ahead and press the shutter button the rest of the way to take the picture.
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