kajunkid

yes. it's true. i'm a newbie through and through. inherited my 1st Nikon after my spouse passed away. didn't know what i was doing. always just shooting on auto. through years, found out i LOVED taking photos. have the passion but not the performance. just (i do mean JUST) learning my camera and trying to get off auto. took a basic photography class which helped some, but mostly had my head swirling. i travel quite extensively, but in groups and on a 'schedule', so i don't have luxury there of "practicing" what settings do what. i am getting out locally and trying to experiment. mostly, birding. i love the bigger animals pics, landscapes and kid's photos. currently, i'm taking pictures at our church events. i NEED to get a better understanding of action shots in low lighting, so that's what i'm concentrating on. i'm hoping this website and/or forum is the place to learn. i don't mind 'constructive' criticism at all. i'd like to produce photos of "whoa" value and not just "oh, that's nice". i'm excited about the wealth of information here and the gorgeous photos i've seen. Whoa.

PeterDragon Loc: Harlan, KY - Kona, HI - Phoenix, AZ

Let me be the first to welcome you. So sorry about your wife. This is the right place to come to learn.
Lots of good photographers here that will be helpful to you.
Again welcome and enjoy the ride.
Jim

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Sorry for your loss, but welcome to the forum.

kajunkid

thank you very much, PeterDragon. i appreciate your welcome here. guess my username is ambiguous, sorry. husband passed..inherited his Nikon D80. got a great deal on Nikon D750, which is what i'm 'trying' to learn.

kajunkid

Thank you so much, Longshadow. and, it is good to be here. appreciate the welcome!

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Sorry your spouse had to pass for you to get into photography.Welcome to UHH. I am a Nikon guy also. Hope to see some your images. I like birds and wildlife also.

Nature_Shooter Loc: Chesterfield Missouri

Welcome! Looking forward to your posts and pictures. Happy shooting!

VaxN8 Loc: Minneapolis, Minnesota

I can tell you as someone who has Ben shooting over 30 years, I have a D750 & another considered more professional & I use my 750 90% of the time. If I can ever help you out on its specific settings & buttons- they can be overwhelming when you're starting out! I'm guessing your basic class covered the exposure triangle- the relationship between shutter speed, aperture & ISO, my advice would be to learn to u sets rand that fully, so you know without thinking if you raise the ISO 1 stop, you're going to have to either open yo your aperture 1 stop or reduce your shutter speed 1-stop. Once that's 2nd nature, the rest is easy! I promise. One thing on the 750 & if you need help finding settings, feel free to message, you can set the dials to ½ or ⅓ stop (the rear controlling f/stop & the front shutter speed. So 1 stop coukd be 2 or 3 clicks on the dial. Lots here can be helpful as well. Personally, if you use Twitter, check out DPS (I don't want to get their initials wrong, but know you can find them searching @DPS. Get that cam of auto & start experimenting! You'll be amazed at what & how much you'll learn. I k ow you can do it & if I can help in any way, I'd be glad to! Especially if you have diverging specific you're having difficulty with. It's much easier than the film days, I managed a lab & studio & shot weddings (which I hated). It was expensive to experiment. I'd shoot a wedding g & go straight to the lab & process negs or I wot judge never slept.

Welcome, great to have another woman! Words seem so trite after your loss. I hope photography helps give tou an outlet for grief & brings the joy to your life it has brought to me!

Michele

tramsey Loc: Texas

welocmeto the forum. sorry about your wife; that's a tuff one to get over.

I don't see much help in the above posts. This might help a little. Go to a book store or Amazon or your library and get Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson. I sat down and read it through a couple of times and it was my aaha moment. Take your camera in one hand and the manual for it in the other and go out and have fun shooting anything that moves or might move or has no chance of moving. THen take a look at your shots and see if you can correct what you don't like. Also you could go to the top of this page and in the blue print find 'SEARCH' works like Google. It will bring up everything that has been said about whatever your subject is. ie shutter speed aperture and iso
it will bring up all the posts that talked about that. Good shooting and have fun WELCOME

WayneT Loc: Paris, TN

Welcome to the forum.

Adicus Loc: New Zealand

HI welcome to the UHG site. The best advice I can give you and because I was the same as you and used auto all the time is to forget about anything except manual and try to practice in Manual when it doesn't matter too much as to the outcome. So get up in the morning and go out to your local park and play with the different speeds and aperture settings until you get a feel for it. Digital cameras are great as it costs nothing to learn about this stuff and you just delete your duff shots.

orrie smith Loc: Kansas

Welcome, and sorry for your loss. When I started learning, I used P mode and controlled my ISO for a while, then went to A mode to control the aperture. I am able now to use Manual mode, but quite honestly, I prefer to use the aperture mode most of the time when shooting action, such as birds. That way I may control the aperture and let the camera adjust the shutter speed while I still control the ISO, as I have it set on manual as opposed to auto. I find that I am able to better control the changing conditions by letting the camera decide on the shutter speed rather than constantly changing the settings as conditions change. Good luck with the d750, it is a very fine camera for what you want to do.

mackphotos Loc: Washington, DC

Hi sorry for your loss welcome to the hog, you will get lots of advice and tidbits of info here. happy shooting

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Hello and welcome to the forum. This website is a great place to chat and share ideas and photos and find new online friends and you may even learn a few things here, but, if you really, really want to learn the art of digital photography and how to use your D750, a really nice camera by the way, pick up some books on the subjects, read them and practice, practice, practice. There are many good books on all aspects of digital photography and a few on the D750 as well. With books you set the pace and you don't have to worry about misinformation and you can go back and reread something any time you want.

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

Welcome to the HOG.
Enjoy.