APPRENTICE
NAME: ROBERTSON EGUEYE
CAMERA: CANON EOS 5D MK IV
BASED IN Croydon, London, Robertson works in Housing Management and loves nothing more than getting out with his Canon camera. He’s been interested in photography for about five years and loves to take portraits of interesting characters and personalities around his area, and other boroughs such as Camden. He wants to understand his camera settings in more depth and master shooting in low light situations.
CANON PRO
NAME: JEREMY FLINT
CAMERA: CANON EOS R5
JEREMY is a Canon pro photographer who specializes in travel, landscape and location photography. He won the National Geographic Traveller Grand Prize in 2016 and the Association of Photographers Discovery Award in 2017. We met him by the Tate Modern in London to photograph iconic architecture such as the Millennium Bridge, London Eye and St Paul’s Cathedral. www.jeremyflintphotography.com
TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT
Canon professional Jeremy helps our Apprentice set up his EOS camera
APERTURE PRIORITY
JEREMY set Robertson’s Canon EOS 5D Mark IV to its Aperture priority mode, also called Av on the mode dial, which stands aperture value. This is a semiautomatic mode that allows Robertson to set the aperture to f/8 for a strong sharpness and deep depth of field. His Canon EOS will then work out the shutter speed based on the metering mode, which was set to Evaluative to take into consideration the exposure across the whole frame.
SHOOT RAW
set Robertson’s camera to shoot in its Raw image quality mode. Raw isn’t an acronym, it literally means the ‘raw’ exposure data from when you fire the shutter button, unlike JPEG files which are compressed to
