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Question 18 of 30
What are your go-to settings when you go on a shoot?
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Gentry has over 15 years of experience leading in-house agency teams where he has interviewed and hired numerous candidates for design, photography, and video production.
While you may assume that the interviewer is talking about a specific kind of shoot based on your interview so far, this question is essentially a trick question. There truly isn't a go-to setting that applies to every shooting situation.
Gentry has over 15 years of experience leading in-house agency teams where he has interviewed and hired numerous candidates for design, photography, and video production.
The goal is to show the interviewer that you adjust your approach to every shoot based on who, what, and where you are photographing. This will demonstrate your experience.
Gentry has over 15 years of experience leading in-house agency teams where he has interviewed and hired numerous candidates for design, photography, and video production.
Focus on the importance of being comfortable working with different settings and adjustments that are typical of and appropriate to different situations.
Gentry has over 15 years of experience leading in-house agency teams where he has interviewed and hired numerous candidates for design, photography, and video production.
I don't have go-to settings that apply to every shooting scenario. The settings are driven by what and where I am shooting. That said, I have developed some basic settings that I start from for different situations. For example, if I want to capture landscape shots, my basic settings for aperture, shutter, and ISO speed start in a different place than the settings I would start with if I photograph someone's portrait.
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