Manual Mode

All my life I have shot photographs in Program mode. I mostly relied upon Photoshop to do the work for me. Today everything changed. I have been studying a bit about exposures for the past couple of days. Today I got a chance to apply them.

This is a totally unedited photo. Despite any Photoshop tweaks, I really like this photograph. It was shot in manual mode. I kept the maximum aperture my camera allowed at 55.9 mm focal length. f/3.5. The light metering was evaluative because I needed a good overall exposure. The white balance was auto which resulted the greenish bars. Mistake! It was pretty sunny and I had set the ISO level to 100. I exposed the sensor for 1/50^th of a second. The bus passing behind the boy gave motion to the picture and also established good DOF (depth of field). I also loved the subtle illumination caused by the sun rays falling upon the boy and the bars.

The only problem was with the car parked beside which was totally blown off. But that was the compromise I was ready to make to illuminate the rest of the scene.