GH2 Taking Quality Stills

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Heartfelt

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I am scouring this forum and see little to no info on stills. I do realize the nature of the forum but hope someone will be kind enough to help or direct me.

I am already taking great shots but have some questions:

1. It seems shutter and aperture are married and synergic. What do you generally do to increase exposure?
2. With the available hacks being focused on Video, how do they impact stills, if at all?

If this is the wrong place for questions like my first, kindly direct me.
rob
 
Heartfelt:

I'm assuming that your first question is related to exposure in general and not the specifics of how the GH2 might do it's aperture, shutter speed, iso decisions. If you want to increase the exposure of your stills you can use the scrolling knob located above your right-thumb. Just click it until the "exposure value" line is highlighted (- 0 +) and scroll the knob to the right to increase exposure. If you need more information on exposure in general I highly recommend this tutorial: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-exposure.htm. The entire series is excellent and worth reading to learn more about still photography.

As for your second question, the hack has absolutely no impact what-so-ever on stills.
 
For stills I set the dial to M....
I would never use Auto exposure....
I have been a photographer for 40 years
and can almost set exposure without metering.
On the GH2 - set your ISO first.
You can click the thumbwheel to toggle between aperture & shutter speed.
Use the thumbwheel to set aperture & shutter speed.

Here is a good site for understanding exposure:
http://dpanswers.com/content/tech_zonesystem.php
 
I would highly recommend shooting in RAW and processing those files. Supposedly, the GH2 is not known for high quality jpegs due to software. I process all my RAW files in Adobe Lightroom but many use Photoshop. Do a comparison and see what you like best.
 
I set the camera for jpg+raw capture and went out for work to take some shots. It was inside a darkish industrial shop so it wasn't pretty to look at although, all things considered, they were decent.

The cool thing is that I could see a definitive difference between the jpg and raw pics. It was most noticeable in blues, the raw seemed properly saturated.
Interesting
 
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