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Tips For Taking Digital Photography UsingLive View
 Nearly all digital cameras these days comewith an LCD screen allowing users to instantlyreview photos as they are taken. This onefeature has drastically changed and improvedhow we take photos. However, an equallyuseful feature on digital cameras is what iscalled Live View technology, a feature thatallows you to not only view the subject of your shots, but to also get a simulated preview of the exposure before you click the shutter  button. The following tips for taking digital photography cover this new feature.This feature has been a part of most point-and-shoot cameras for quite some time, but many camera users don’t use the feature to its fullestextent. Also, in the last few years, Live View has been built into 35mm DSLR cameras.Latest models of both the Canon and Nikon 35mm cameras feature Live View.
How it Works
With traditional digital cameras, you look through the optical viewfinder at the top of thecamera, and compose and take your shot. Then you look on the back of the LCD screen to seehow the photo came out. But with Live View, you don’t use the small optical viewfinder.You use the actual LCD screen to frame your photo while at the same time getting asimulated preview of your exposure settings before you take the shot. Many users, however, basically use Live View as the viewfinder and but not for previewing exposure settings.That’s because many users don’t shoot beyond the automatic mode of their camera. Thefollowing tips for taking digital photography will guide you through the process of using LiveView to it’s fullest capacity.
Live View on Non-35mm Cameras
Live View works best on point-and-shoot and compact cameras because there’s no mirror inside that needs to pop-up to reveal the sensor. So in Live View, if you change any of theexposure settings, including ISO, aperture, shutter speed, exposure compensation or WhiteBalance settings, you get a simulation of your settings on the LCD screen when you press theshutter halfway down. It works similar to automatic focus when you press the shutter halfway, you see the subject of your camera come into focus.With larger monitors on the back of digital cameras, you can actually compose shots better using the screen as the viewfinder. The Canon Powershot series, especially the last threemodels (G9, G10, and G11) each sport a 3-inch screen that makes the traditional tinyviewfinder nearly useless. You can simply see more and compose better with the larger sizescreen.The G9, for example, comes with the option to use Grid Guidelines that appears when you’rein live shooting mode. The grid is divided into 9 parts so you can use the traditional Rules of Thirdsin photography to compose shots or just line up a subject.
 
Exposure Settings
Here are a few illustrations of Live View in action. In the first example, Live View mode isengaged and the shutter priority speed is 1/60 of a second, at f/2.8, which means there’s lesslight coming into the camera. In the second example, I changed the shutter priority to
⅙
of asecond, and as you can see more light is allowed into the camera. Before the advent of LiveView technology there as no way you could preview exposure in this way.
 
In another example, I’ve changed the White Balance settings to demonstrate another exposure simulation in Live View. With feature, you now can see if your White Balance iscorrect or what type of color cast you will have on the lighting before you take the photo.This takes a lot guessing on out the process, and makes for more accurate settings.
Live View on 35mm SLRs
Live View technology works best on point-and-shoot and compact cameras, but not as wellon 35mm cameras. Why is this? Well, Ben Long explains it best in his book,
The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Companion Book 
: “To create an image on LCD screen, theimage sensor needs to be able to see out the lens. But in an SLR [35mm single reflectioncamera], there’s a shutter and mirror between the sensor and lens, so the sensor is effectively,
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