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Hi,
As mentioned in my thread in the welcome section of the forum, I'm new and just starting out learning.
Yesterday, worried if I'd bitten off more than I could chew, I set out with the kids to the Glenfinnan Viaduct for my first proper attempt at some serious photography with my new gear. I'm overall pleased at the results, but there's always room for improvement. I learnt a lot yesterday, but I think I now have more questions than answers! Hints/tips/feedback/criticism welcome Camera/lenses in my signature.
It was a lovely sunny day, and sadly, that has taken its toll on a few of my pics. Pics are a mixture of Auto and Aperture Priority. Train purely Auto so I didn't screw up and waste a 6 hour round trip! I didn't have any lens hoods with me, but I've ordered some, so hopefully that'll show in future shoots. As mentioned, the weather was bright and sunny so a lot of my pics featured an overexposed sky and some lens flare. How should I work around this in future? Is there a remedy in post-processing? I noticed that I'm not keeping the camera as level as I could when not using the tripod I borrowed, so that's something else for me to work on.
I've been reading up on how using a higher f-stop gives you a greater field of view. As you can see from my basic lenses, my max f-stops are quite low, yet the camera would allow me to set higher and higher f-stops well above my max f5.6 - I assume that the lens doesn't go above f5.6 and/or the camera mimics higher?
Anyway, enough waffling on from me, here's the best of my pics from yesterday. Slight edits in DPP4.
View: https://imgur.com/UJq4Lrx
View: https://imgur.com/BRy9s1V
https://imgur.com/PQGloEn
https://imgur.com/9cSnu7x
https://imgur.com/eF5bdKD
https://imgur.com/3tp47wN
https://imgur.com/gP3Pxpy
https://imgur.com/0g2VJ9l
https://imgur.com/54TgTIE
(I'm working on figuring out how to embed the photos)
As mentioned in my thread in the welcome section of the forum, I'm new and just starting out learning.
Yesterday, worried if I'd bitten off more than I could chew, I set out with the kids to the Glenfinnan Viaduct for my first proper attempt at some serious photography with my new gear. I'm overall pleased at the results, but there's always room for improvement. I learnt a lot yesterday, but I think I now have more questions than answers! Hints/tips/feedback/criticism welcome Camera/lenses in my signature.
It was a lovely sunny day, and sadly, that has taken its toll on a few of my pics. Pics are a mixture of Auto and Aperture Priority. Train purely Auto so I didn't screw up and waste a 6 hour round trip! I didn't have any lens hoods with me, but I've ordered some, so hopefully that'll show in future shoots. As mentioned, the weather was bright and sunny so a lot of my pics featured an overexposed sky and some lens flare. How should I work around this in future? Is there a remedy in post-processing? I noticed that I'm not keeping the camera as level as I could when not using the tripod I borrowed, so that's something else for me to work on.
I've been reading up on how using a higher f-stop gives you a greater field of view. As you can see from my basic lenses, my max f-stops are quite low, yet the camera would allow me to set higher and higher f-stops well above my max f5.6 - I assume that the lens doesn't go above f5.6 and/or the camera mimics higher?
Anyway, enough waffling on from me, here's the best of my pics from yesterday. Slight edits in DPP4.
View: https://imgur.com/UJq4Lrx
View: https://imgur.com/BRy9s1V
https://imgur.com/PQGloEn
https://imgur.com/9cSnu7x
https://imgur.com/eF5bdKD
https://imgur.com/3tp47wN
https://imgur.com/gP3Pxpy
https://imgur.com/0g2VJ9l
https://imgur.com/54TgTIE
(I'm working on figuring out how to embed the photos)
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