Hello Everyone! Seems I have fallen down quite the rabbit hole and purchased for myself a Canon EOS Rebel T7 with just a few lenses that I have absolutely no idea how they all work. I come to this forum looking for experience and know-how to get myself out there taking some nice pictures with what I have. I have taken a few pictures with the standard lens in both Auto mode and Manual but I'm looking to delve further and actually try some of my different lenses. I firmly believe that I live in a great area to be taking some nice pictures (actually, any place would be a great place if you know what you're doing!) but I need a little help getting started. I have little experience with such a nice camera as this. My last camera (non phone) was a Kodak 110. (There's my age drop) Anyways, sorry for the lengthy 'Hello', but Hello again! I am excited to be here and I hope that we can become friends!
Welcome to the forum Vadar! How familiar are you with just some of the basics of Shutter/Aperture, Depth of field, etc...? Sounds like you already have turned the camera to manual which is half the battle really. On a side note, the kodak 110 was my first camera, a hand me down from my mom when i was like 9. I quickly gradated to a Pentax k1000 in 7th grade. The lenses are probably easier than he rest of that, you pick the lens that provides the view you want. At its simplest you can go wide and get a very large scene like in a vast landscape, or go with a long telephoto to shoot something you want to get very close to, telephotos also compress the background more when you shoot wide apertures/ low depth of field shots of subjects closer to you. Of course there are specialty lenses like macros and fish-eye. You can google all of these things to get an explanation of them, but if your very very green it probably would be a good start to go through a series of you tube videos or a podcast that covers all the basics in bite sized chunks. Besides covering some of those basics, just getting reps in with your camera and each lens is probably the fastest way to learn, after that it is all about being intentional with the choices you make to get the look you desire, for example a portrait, maybe you shoot someone at say using an 85 mm at f1.8 so the background bokeh(blur) is nice, standing to where you used you feet to crop in for the portrait with that lens. And placing them with background that is not very busy and is a distance away so that the bokeh really separates the person from the background. All about intentional choices.
Hello and welcome to the forum. As you may have noticed, things have moved on a little since the days of the Kodak 110, and yes, I had one back in the day. As a suggestion, just grab one 'other' bit of kit, and have a play with it. Ask some questions, and I am sure someone will yell out if you are unsure of something. Gary
Welcome to the forum, Vader, you will always fine someone on the forum here to help, all you have to do is ask. We have a monthly challenge, this month it is "Aperture". Intentionally use Aperture to control the depth of field in your images. Have a go as this will assist in improving your photography, all the best, Craig.
Welcome, and I can help you a lot. Just do the exact opposite of everything I say and you will do good.
