This document provides examples of different camera settings and how they affect photographs, including ISO, white balance, shutter speed, aperture, focusing, and software adjustments. For each setting, the document shows example photographs demonstrating the effects of varying that setting. It compares auto and manual focus. It also demonstrates cropping, levels adjustments, dodging and burning, color alteration, and selection tools in post-processing software. The examples are intended to illustrate how camera settings and software tools can impact the quality, lighting, color, depth of field, and other qualities of photographed images.

1. Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice
Camera Settings Evidence Template
Emily Ashford
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2. ISO Settings
Take a series of pictures of the same subject, but set a different ISO for each image. You will then be able to see how this
setting changes the quality of the image recorded.
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With the ISO pictures you can
tell that some are more grainy
and others are less. The higher
the ISO the more noise and
grain there is in the picture like
you can see in the photograph
set at 800 ISO. With the
colour, the ISO which is high
has a lot of purple, gray and
white grains compared to the
photo with the low ISO.
100 ISO 400 ISO
800 ISO

3. White Balance
With the white balance, the auto one comes out just has your average picture, but with a little to much light. The daylight
photo has a bit more light to it but not as much light is let in the picture. Cloudy has more of a yellow tone to it as it is making it
look bright rather than cloudy. The shade setting is a little like the cloudy one but not as yellow in the toning. With
tungsten/incandescent its got a very blue tone to the picture as it is trying to balance the white in the photo. Fluorescent is its
still got a few blue tones in there but not as much as the tungsten setting.
My Personal preference would be daylight or cloudy but auto is very good too. It could have been a better picture though..
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Auto WB Daylight WB Cloudy WB Shade WB
Tungsten/Incandescent
WB
Fluorescent WB

4. Shutter Speed Control
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In these set of photo’s I have
demonstrated different shutter
speeds. I used 3 different
shutter speed times, for
example I left the shutter speed
to 1 second or longer and as
you can see it has caught the
movement of the person in the
picture. In the speed time of
1/15 to 1/60 second you can
see less movement and the
person is a bit more faded. Last
of all there the photograph that
is set at speed at 1/250 of a
second which caught a bottle
pouring and catching the water
drop half way down before
hitting the floor. That show that
the shutter speed was
increasingly fast compared to
the other two photos.
Shutter speed of : 1 second or longer Shutter speed of : 1/15 to 1/60 second
Shutter speed of : 1/250 second

5. LensAperture Settings (Depth of Field)
Take a series of pictures of the same subject, but use a different Aperture
setting for each image. You will then be able to see how this setting
changes the quality of the image recorded. Use a tripod!
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With the widest aperture you
can see that the majority of the
picture is out of focus but the
daisy is still in focus, this is to
do with the depth of field. The
smallest aperture has a lot more
focus in the photo and has
picked up more on the
background.
Widest Aperture (f/4) Medium Aperture (f/8)
Smallest Aperture (f/16)

6. Focusing
Take a photo of a scene using manual focus and then take another using automatic focus.
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You can see that the manual
photo has a lot less in it but is
still got a great focus where as
the coffee cup photo has a lot
more going on in it but
automatic would be easier to
handle .
Manual
Automatic

7. Software Exposure adjustments
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Original Cropped
Levels Dodging and burning

8. Software Exposure adjustments cont…
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Colour alteration Selection