Reportage and street photography, weddings, family gatherings in the back yard are less predictable as your subjects will be moving in relation to the frame. In these circumstances, remember this tip, "f/8 and be there".
Set your aperture to f/8 for a practical, manageable balance of fairly fast shutter speeds and broad depths of field, allowing you to spend more time thinking about composition within the frame than you do about optical algebra.
When shooting indoors without a flash, and depending on the lighting conditions, you may need to increase your camera's ISO sensitivity setting at this aperture, but be careful not to push it so high that you introduce grain into your images, unless you are looking for that specific effect.
You can come on one of my composition workshops... we use this tip and others to help you take better photos. http://www.photographers-lounge.com/canadian-workshops/composition-workshops/
This is my favourite tip, but I focus on a different part of it than you do.
ReplyDeleteTo me, this tip implies that your camera gear and settings aren't important. Just use f8 and it will be fine... What is important is that you get out there. Any photo of Niagara falls at sunrise shot at f8 is better than any photo that WASN'T TAKEN on your new Nikon D50000.
Be there... that is always the key!