Don't Let The LCD Fool You

The image your DSLR shows you in your LCD should be used mainly to check your framing and exposure. Even so, as the image I've used in the composite of the camera below shows, your LCD can fool you. My goal shooting that presentation was to get the stage lighting under control. That could easily be blown out, loosing detail. Bracketing shots was not a good option because nobody was standing or sitting still.

I knew I could bring out some details of the audience in developing and the finished image is what I had in mind. Creative use of good equipment will lead to satisfying photos.

Steady Is Ready

I've found that the best way to hold a camera for shooting (of course) is with my left hand supporting the lens and turning the zoom ring and my right hand operating the buttons. I frame 95% of the time through the viewfinder because it's much easier to hold the camera steady while pressing it against my forehead than while holding it away from my

body to frame through the LCD. I will frame through the LCD screen for some shots like holding the camera high for the angle.

This my "almost always" shooting position. Thanks, P.J. Hahn for the shot.