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By Aaron Raisey
In the previous three weeks,we have looked at why we needto stop being automatic andtwist that dial on the top of yourDSLR a bit more.
We looked at what the aper-ture is and how we can use itcreatively, what shutter speedcan mean to our photographyand this week we’re going toturn it a little further and clickinto manual mode. Most casualphotographers find manualmode a little scary as there is nosafety net for your image, butlike most things, if we under-stand it a bit more, it becomesless daunting.
Q: What is manual mode?A: In aperture priority and
shutter priority modes, you andthe camera share control of theexposure. You work as a team —you make your choice of aper-ture size or shutter speed, and
the camera works to compen-sate. In manual mode, you havetotal control over both. The cam-era lets go of the controls andsays “It’s all yours, pal,” and tosomeone quite new to photogra-phy, it can feel a bit like flyingblind. Thankfully though, atleast the camera can still do thefocusing for you.
Q: I thought manual cam-eras disappeared about 50-odd years ago. What gives?
A: True. The need to seteverything on the camera byhand started to become obsoleteand unnecessary back then. Andindeed, these days the vast ma-jority of serious photographers— both amateurs and pros —prefer to shoot in aperture pri-ority mode. But having indepen-dent control over your aperturesize and shutter speed does stillhave some uses, particularly insome special circumstances.
Q: Like when?A: One situation that you can
very easily try yourself is shootingat night. Grab yourself a tripodand head for the hills (or a highwindow). Set yourself up lookingover some nice lights. Click into
manual mode and because wewant everything in our picture tobe nice, clean and sharp, select asmall aperture (big number) andthe lowest ISO value.
Now concentrate on yourshutter, taking the same pictureat different shutter speeds. Youwill see points of light at fastershutter speeds become beautifulstars with lovely long rays asyou slow the shutter down. Weare varying our speeds quite alot, but because we are in man-ual mode, our aperture isn’tchanging as it would in shutterpriority. It’s staying small tokeep the picture nice and sharpat all distances.
Ever wondered how they dothose night shots with rivers oflight painted on the roads butnot a car to be seen? It’s done inexactly the same way. It’s verysimple, fun and it’s an excellentway to learn more about yourcamera while producing someimpressive results.
Once you get your head aroundit, shooting in manual mode canbe a very creative and rewardingadventure. Good weather is onthe way, so I recommend spend-ing a few nights out there with atripod sometime.
Next week we will look at acouple of other daunting, butvery important features of yourDSLR — the histogram and ex-posure compensation.
Rob Ouwehand
Communities
Wishing for community is allwell and good, but actually get-ting out and connecting is thehard part.
Especially for expats who liveoutside of the usual foreignerhideouts (Itaewon, Haebang-chon, etc.), and work five or sixdays a week, it gets hard meet-ing anyone other than cowork-ers or other foreigners in theneighborhood. Unfortunately,the expats nearby don’t alwaysshare the same interests.
Meanwhile, those elusive kin-dred spirits are often scatteredall over the map: a lonely expatin Jamsil might need to searchfrom Ilsan to Bundang, fromNowon to Gimpo, to find othersinterested in rock climbing, andif the interest is a little more ob-scure, say, guerilla theater en-thusiasts or Gundam toy collec-tors, the search might stretchall the way from Gangwon rightto Jeolla.
When an expat only has oneor two days off a week, and mustmaximize that free time, whatis to be done?
One way to bring groups to-gether via the internet is byforming a Facebook group;however, for every Facebookgroup that actually has a lively(spam-free) discussion boardand regularly planned meet-ings, there seem to be five thathave gone defunct because,though the idea might be great,though interests may beshared, they never meet.
There is another website —www.meetup.com — dedicatedto bringing hobby and interestgroups together. The site willhost an interest group, create aspace to chat and most impor-tantly, to plan meetings andget-togethers.
Mass e-mails get sent out,new members are free to join,the site helps the organizerplan events, and those who at-
tend can contact each otherthrough the site, and even re-view events. If a group in yourarea for your interest does notexist, you can request to be no-tified when somebody formsone.
Meetup.com is free for users.However, to run a group costs amonthly fee. The nominal feeturns out to be a good thing, be-cause it’s easy to get lazy and leta group go defunct when youdon’t have to pay for it.However, not many will pay amonthly fee to run a group andthen do nothing with it.
It’s true that not all Facebookgroups are washouts, and I’dlove to hear from the ones thatdo plan regular meetings.However, for a site with a verystrong “let’s meet in real life”drive, Meetup.com gets the edgeover Facebook.
Meetup.com has meetup in-dexes for about 50 differentcities in Korea, meaning thatunlike Facebook, where search-ing “Korean food club” might getyou search results from NewYork, Sacramento and Munich— as well as Seoul and Busan— Meetup.com narrows thesearch geographically.
If no groups in your area existyet, it’s not expensive to startone, and it works: I have been amember of a few Meetup.comgroups and there are 29 in theSeoul area.
As always, if you know of, orare part of, a group or communi-ty that helps expats in Koreaget connected with others, sendan e-mail to Rob [email protected] with theword “community” in the sub-ject line, and tell me why Ishould feature your group.
More of Rob Ouwehand’s writ-ings can be found on his person-al blog, at roboseyo.blogspot.com, and at the community bloghe co-founded, koreasparkle.com— Ed.
18 COMMUNITYWEDNESDAYAPRIL 15, 2009
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PHOTO CHALLENGE — Gwanaksan Night Light — The view from Gwanaksan, behind Seoul National University, is not as well known as the views from Namsam orBukhansan, but is just as impressive on a beautiful evening. Xu Xiaoqing
In focus: manual mode
PHOTO CHALLENGE RUNNER UP — A man hangs wishes onlanterns in Jogyesa, near Insadong, Seoul. Rika Yunarti