Jumping Right In
Only three days after I bought a Sony α6700 , I did something bold with it: I took it into the studio for a model photo shoot. And just as a warning, this post isn't safe for viewing at work. I still hadn't finished reading the instructions but I felt I had learned enough that I shouldn't have an issue. And, after all, I do have more than 45 years of experience taking photos. How hard could it be? The truth is that I only wanted to try taking a few photos with the new camera. I had brought my Nikon D750 as my main camera for this meetup. But I wanted to see what it felt like holding such a small and light mirrorless camera with a flash trigger on it. The studio that my club uses has plenty of triggers for all sorts of camera makes, so I placed one on the Nikon and the other on the Sony. The challenging part, as it turned out, was the focus mode. I was shooting in manual-exposure mode, with the shutter speed fixed at 1/100 of a second, the aperture at anywhere from f/5.6 ...
