Recently, I have gifted myself a new Canon Eos 1300D. I am not so pro in photography tried to take it in Manual Mode but got some blurry images. So, turned on Auto-focus and took this photo. I hope you people will like it...
It's good that you are trying Manual settings but a little frustrating at first and you learn by your mistakes. Firstly try the sunny 16 rule, on a sunny day put your aperture on F16, your shutter speed should be the same as your ISO. As the light gets darker use a larger aperture { that means a bigger hole to let more light in}. Next find the camera's light meter. If your photos are blurry then you need a faster shutter speed so as you increase the shutter speed, increase your aperture, that's the F stop numbers (the larger the number, the smaller the hole so think of them as fractions 1 over the number). As you are increasing your aperture look at the light meter and as you change the F stop make sure the needle lines up with the zero mark. If you are still lost, take a photo in auto and look at the setting the camera used and compare that with your photo. The next two things to consider is get onto utube and look up what they have to view and above all be persistent.
There are three places you can find the light meter, the screen on top of the camera, rear screen if you have a live view function and through the view finder. The info contained in the top screen and the view finder and rear screen is a aperture number, a shutter speed, ISO, (single shot or multi-shot), metering mode, battery state and the light meter. This is the basic items, there may be more, you will have to check. The light meter is a scale which goes from -3 to 0 to +3 in 1/3 increments. It has been part of the camera since the early film days and primitive point and shoot cameras, it allows us to know how much light is coming into the camera and how adjustments made to shutter speed, aperture and ISO affect the light landing on the sensor or film. There are 3 things that effect the photo (exposure). ISO, Aperture and Shutter speed. As you adjust one of these watch as the meter changes. As you are just starting out try to have you meter on the zero mark to start with. My next suggestion is read your manual from front to back like it was a really good pornographic book. If you don't have a manual or if like mine, the print is so dam small you need a magnifying glass, then down load one from Canon's web site (it is free), what-ever get one and read it, the answers to all your question and future ones are contained in it and be persistent, hope this is of help!
When you have found and started getting use to the light-meter and want something a bit more advanced look up on youtube about shadow, mid-tone and highlights "Beyond Photography" by Andrew Boey is a good one to look at. If you find it a bit hard to understand, let me know and I shall endeavor to explain
If you are looking up on youtube also look up fontanaknowledge, he is a pretty cool dude to listen too. Check out his first three lesson these cover the basics about photography and they are the first ones I learned the most about it in a way that was easy to understand.
