Post by PTG DAN0 408 on Jul 19, 2016 7:45:29 GMT
Welcome to The PTG Guide To Forzatography.
Over the coming months/PTG Magazine issue’s PTG will be bringing you a guide covering the simplistic parts to the most advanced parts of Forzatography. The idea is to share our great knowledge with you and help the community find the photographer within.
So to kick this of we have a simple explanation of what each setting is within the ‘Photo Mode’ application of the Forza Series.
The Basics
Brightness
As a setting of 100 would be simply a picture of white this picture is set to 90. As you can see in the picture it adjusts how bright the image is.
Colour
Full of colour in the picture, set at 100, no colour gives you a black and white image.
Sepia
Sepia tones are used to resemble the effect of aging in photographs.
Vignette
A vignette is the gradual fall-off of light from the centre towards the edges of the frame of an image.
Exposure
By exposing light, you create an image. That's an exposure. More light means a brighter image and less light creates a darker photo.
Contrast
Contrast is the scale of difference between black and white in your images. Without contrast you wouldn't have an image because there wouldn't be any differentiation between light and dark; everything would be black, white, or a single shade of grey somewhere in between.
Vignette
Vignette
A vignette is the gradual fall-off of light from the centre towards the edges of the frame of an image.
Advanced
Shutter Speed
To get to grips with what shutter speed is, we need to know what a shutter is. And to do this, it helps to understand the very basics of how a camera works. Light enters a camera lens, travels into the camera body and is recorded as an image when it hits the sensor in the back of the camera. The amount of time the light is allowed to hit the sensor for is controlled by the shutter; a piece of metal or fabric that opens and closes when the picture is taken. The slower the shutter speed, the longer the shutter is open for. As you can see in this picture, the shutter speed is set to 100 but the car has focus on it. So the image around the car appears brushed in a straight line and gives a sense of speed.
Aperture
Aperture means ‘hole’ or ‘opening’. In a photography sense, the aperture is the gap that allows light to pass through the lens. The bigger the opening, or the aperture, the more light passes through. That’s pretty intuitive. When you’re taking pictures in low-light settings, a bigger aperture will help you to take a photo where you can see something. When you focus on the subject/car the image around will appear blurred.
Focus
This setting used in combination with other settings and will be explained more in detail later.
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