This is obviously an incredibly good picture! It has been filed onto my computer under "Best photographs at ZooChat"....
Being new to the world of digital photography (and not having taken pictures at all for the last 30 years or so), can I please ask a few questions, based on the EXIF data etc?
- ISO 800 - did you set that manually or did or did you "let the camera decide"?
- Did you set both shutter speed and aperture manually?
- Did you use a tri-pod (or one-pod for that matter) or were you able to take this picture without any "physical support"?
I got the camera for my birthday on Thursday and it's the 1st digital SLR I've had. So ...... this weekend, I shot everything on auto focus (it was as much as I could manage to switch off the flash, or find 'sports mode' for moving subjects) and without a tripod.
I have so much to learn and am really excited at the prospect.
Well, congratulations then... I thought I was asking questions to a seasoned photographer....
Still qurious about that "ISO-setting" though.... MY camera has not been that creative by itself...
But as for the last question then, may I take it that you are rather young, and easily can hold a long lense steady? I can´t without a tripod (onepod)...
Haha... I was actually going to ask you another question, but maybe I should direct it at older forumsters....
I tried out focusing manually for the first time this weekend. (Only had my digital camera for a short while.) Did not work out as well as I hoped. I am 50+ of age and near-sighted. Often when I thought I had the object focused, it turned out later when I looked at the pictures on my computer that the focus was totally wrong. I tried a mixture of looking through the lens with and without glasses, but it did not seem to matter.
I'm laughing more now ..... I was 45 last week. Don't know if that qualifies as 'rather young' or not ? I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by how light the Canon seems, even with the telephoto lens attached. I'd read up about various cameras within my other half's budget and had decided on this model for a beginner, but hadn't actually held one until it was given to me.
Haha... I was actually going to ask you another question, but maybe I should direct it at older forumsters....
I tried out focusing manually for the first time this weekend. (Only had my digital camera for a short while.) Did not work out as well as I hoped. I am 50+ of age and near-sighted. Often when I thought I had the object focused, it turned out later when I looked at the pictures on my computer that the focus was totally wrong. I tried a mixture of looking through the lens with and without glasses, but it did not seem to matter.
That's really interesting (but must have been frustrating for you) because I too am incredibly short sighted and as am blind as a bat. I'd never thought of how that might affect manually focusing until now and had assumed I suppose that so long as I was wearing lenses or glasses that I'd be able to focus without too many problems.
Silly idea ..... but could it be that you need to get your glasses updated. That what you see and think looks normal isn't actually quite correct any longer ..... I know when I've had my annual eye check that sometimes my sight's deteriorated quite badly yet I hadn't realised.
Then again, there may be any number of other factors which I'm afraid I'm not qualified to comment on as I'm probably more of a beginner than you are. I'm sure that once I start using the camera manually there are going to be loads of rubbish shots where I'll have no idea what I did wrong ....... but I'm sure we'll get there in the end and it'll be fun learning from our mistakes.
