Angela's Photo Blog

Owner of Digital SLR Community Just starting to learn photography the right way!

Shooting Tethered (connected to computer)

 Shooting tethered has many advantages. Instead of viewing your photos on your camera's tiny LCD screen, only to find out later they were blurry (well that still happens to me sometimes), you can view your photo large as life on your monitor!

Here I have a 24" monitor and I downloaded a free 30 day trial software called Camera Control Pro. A quick google about "tethering" brought up Scott Kelby's blog. Doh, should've known he's got a blog! Followed his instructions, and here you have it!

Camera Control Pro let me set my camera's setting from the computer, and with the click of a button it would Focus and Shoot!

Coincidentally, my first try, my camera was pointed at a stack of photography exposure books. :)

When I setup my photography studio, I will definitely be "shooting tethered" for portraits!

 Below is one of my shots that I did a screen capture so you can see the setup. To view the original large file, head to my photo gallery and "Download" the photo!

http://www.dslrcommunity.com/media/p/1553.aspx

Posted: Apr 17 2008, 08:13 PM by Angela | with 3 comment(s)
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Chelsea said:

That sounds really cool. Too bad it doesn't work on my computer. :(

# April 17, 2008 8:37 PM

Angela said:

What computer setup do you have?

# April 17, 2008 8:38 PM

Chelsea said:

Canon Rebel XT, iBook G4. Or at least when we tried right after getting the camera it wouldn't work. Soon I will have a 2 year old iMac.

# April 17, 2008 9:17 PM