Tethered Shooting

Another way  to take pictures is by remote shooting, but I don't mean by shutter remote control. I am talking about tethered shooting. This is where you have your camera hooked to your computer and your computer is used to control all aspects of your camera for photo taking. With the fact that I use a desktop computer for my photography I am limited to indoor use for this, but if you have have a laptop, and the battery is charged, you can do this any where. When you are doing tethered shooting it gives you an opportunity to setup your camera and monitor it from your computer to take the pictures allowing you to not disturb the target area you are shooting.

This can be setup in 2 ways. With some of the newer cameras they have a wireless setup that can link direct to your computer or you can use the more traditional method using a tether cable linking the camera directly to the computer. Both methods work great, but the wireless methods have the benefit of providing possible longer distance and no cords to trip over.

I use this method at home for photographing the bird feeder and catching the different birds that show up. This is also helpful for a large multi family portrait session so you can shoot straight to the computer and transfer to CD for the families to take along.

So if you have an opportunity to try this method it can be fun if you have a target to be shooting that movement can disturb.

So head out have fun and take great pictures.