sekhar
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Technical stuff aside, this is a cute, well composed picture...awesome pose/expression from your grandson!
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My suggestion would be to forget the on camera flash. The only thing it is good for IMHO is to fire off your external flash that is set on slave mode.
The best thing you could do after reading your manual a couple of times, is to learn to "see the light". I am not being a wise guy. When you learn to see where the light is and what it is doing you will vastly improve your shots.
Take the picture you posted here for example. When you look at this shot where is the light? (Not the flash)
what I see is a big beautiful window right behind them. There is your light. Just figure out what direction it is coming through the window and have them sit so the light bounces off something and into their faces.
I realize that sometimes you can't move them where you want them but if you went over to the window and asked them to turn to face you the light would still be much better than it is with the light behind them. Hope I explained myself well enough and didn't just sound like a babbling old man.
Read your manual and then go look for the light and somewhere around 10,000 shots you will have it down.[/QUOT
Thanks for the impute, it was very helpful
I knew the light at the window was a little much... But only after the photo was taken. I was so caught up with my grandson! I was not paying attention "Kindatook the picture on the fly".
One step at a time. Get to know the basic camera controls first, then add the technicals when you can. For a first couple of shots, these are not bad, at all.
Lisa, DSLR's aren't as easy to use as people think. I was quite surprised at the amount of work it took to learn to use my camera. It took me a good 3 months just to learn how ISO, aperture, and shutter speed work together. Adding flash into the equation is more work.. I would try to learn to use your camera in natural light and once you get comfortable with that you can start playing with the flash..I tried to learn too much at one time and I was getting extremely frustrated.. Take one step at a time and you'll get there!!