Originally posted by BugsDogsAndSunsets Is it possible you're accidentally bumping the review button? That wouldn't explain the blank screen though...
Yeah nah that's not it.
Originally posted by pschlute Can't help with the question but I am loving the pictures
Thanks, I have more shots like these to take for an event tomorrow and would like to replicate this process smoothly.
Originally posted by biz-engineer Just remove the instant preview then.
Nice pics, BTW. I give you a like :-)
Nah that doesn't even work! As I said in my post, even if you set Instant Review to Off, then what happens is you take the shot holding the back AF button in LV, it processes the image, gives you a black screen and it will just stay indefinitely black until you release the Af button!
PS Thanks for the Like
Originally posted by Paul the Sunman I thought it was standard practice with the Brenizer Method to use manual focus and exposure, and just leave them fixed for all shots.
As with all things there's more than one way to do things. I just streamlined my Av mode to behaving like this in case I wanted to do a brenizer that way. Once the AE-L is activated it's like as if you're taking the shots in Manual mode, everything stays fixed for the rest of the shots.
In the beginning I tried doing Manual Focus but I found my first shots on the subject would be a little off (nothing worse than asking for a person to stand still for a 30-60 brenizer shot only to review the first shot taken on the subject and it's soft focus!), which is why I then thought about the options of how to approach the shot with AF involved.
These shots I have here use Face Detection, which I find accurate and gives me greater peace of mind for the remaining shots involved, I hardly ever get bum FD shot, usually the Contrast Detection AF comes through with far more in focus shots vs PDAF.
Furthermore, when shooting wide open and then not using centre AF points, in PDAF you run an even stronger risk of the shot being out of focus, with CDAF (and like how I have illustrated with these shots) you can nail focus on the faces pretty well even when the AF point is far away from centre (mine would have been towards the edges here as I had my camera orientated in portrait mode rather than landscape).
I'm not sure how successful I would be to do an epic brenizer in LV mode, even when it works properly it is quite a lot slower in recovery between the shots, compared the 'pew pew pew' in OVF mode
But for small portrait brenizers like this I find it works quite well (except for the odd occasion this bug seems to rear it's ugly head)!
Oh and you also want fixed WB for brenizer.