I've just purchased my first "Real Camera" and I'm so excited and timid at the same time. I need to know everything about photography.
Tom-NM
Loc: Southeast New Mexico
Welcome, you came to the right place, everyone here knows something.
Put it all together and you know a lot.
Welcome to the hobby and the forum.
Relax, you'll get there.
Read the manual,
re-read the manual,
then once you think you have it all down,
re-read the manual.
This link will help for starters:
http://digital-photography-school.com/HAVE FUN!
Welcome to the forum.
Jack
Mac
Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.
Welcome to UHH
What camera did you get.
Longshadow wrote:
Welcome to the hobby and the forum.
Relax, you'll get there.
Read the manual,
re-read the manual,
then once you think you have it all down,
re-read the manual.
This link will help for starters:
http://digital-photography-school.com/HAVE FUN!
Read the manual with your camera on your lap and try a shot for everything it suggests....and do it again :-)
Welcome to the Hog. You can ask any question you want, and you can expect answers. Be forewarned, some of the replies will be snarky, and castigate you for your lack of knowledge, but most will be happy to provide decent answers and not put you down for asking a "basic" question. Ignore the snarks!
Depending on how new you are to photography, there are lots of books out there to help. Reading the manual is fine if you understand all the terms, but can be confusing for a beginner. See what resources your local library has available, especially if it can give you access to online tutorials. There is a site, Lynda.com, that I can access free of charge through my library that has a ton of photography courses from the most basic to classes that explore the details of particular cameras and advanced techniques.
When posing a question here, give details of what brand and model of camera, and which lenses that you are using. Then, the answers will be more "focused."
Best of luck.
I started out with my first dslr 5 yrs ago having not used anything but a point and shoot on auto.
Google is your friend.
Everyine suggest to RTM - Read The Manual (and I do too) but combine that with google searches on "top 10 tips for beginning photographers" etc.
Those websites will often explain the "why" to adjust settings and not just the "how" from the manual.
Combine the beauty of a bokehs , blurs, frozen sports moments with your own curiosity of " how did they get that shot"....google it ...and then go back to manual to figure out for your camera how to do it...
Pretty soon you will have emptied your savings, started a little side business to pay for all the gear necessary to feed the addiction of chasing the perfect moment...lol.
Welcome.... Has anyone suggested reading the manual?? :-)
Welcome to the Hog Rae, enjoy.
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