Sunlight issues.

[jake337]

I would say forgot most of the advice your are reading, for now. Now go read some books and try to get a better understanding of what you are doing.


People can write all sorts of stuff for you to read but if you have no idea what they're trying to convey....

 

[jake337]

Quit hating on my posts I have figured out the settings according to tcambell so stop bothering posting on this when problem is solved.

Truthfully, we really don't know what the problem was in the first place.

Sent from Tasmania vie a devil.

Yes we do.


Lack of basic camera and exposure knowledge.

 

[kathyt]

I should have been counting up the number of times posters have been told to shoot in manual mode.

Full manual or die.

Shoot in full manual or you'll never get anywhere.

Learn the "exposure triangle" and then always shoot in manual.

Green auto is for noobs.

While the above are not quotes, the remarks recreated here are representative of many threads over the last year.

Is it any wonder that some people do not feel like posting anything?

Buy the best camera and lenses you can get, and shoot in auto. That is what I do. It works for me.

 

[480sparky]

Yes we do.


Lack of basic camera and exposure knowledge.

But did the OP actually use a meter, or just set the camera to Manual and expect 'things to work out'?

 

[gregtallica]

Seriously Kyle! Be grateful for all the great advice you've received in this thread. You could at least tell us what the actual "solved issue" was since it may help other beginners struggling with their first cameras - give back a little!


Sent from my Java-powered lawn mower

The issue was that he turned the camera on manual, without reading 100 posts he's recieved about why he would "ideally" be on manual. This was solved when he switched to "auto."

Simple as that, I guess. I have no idea why I've spent so much time reading, practicing, and asking for assistance on how to properly expose an image when "auto" will just do it for me. BRB guys, I'm switching to green and opening a business real quick.


sent from my brian via chair-to-keyboard interface

EVERY tool on the camera has its uses.

My cameras don't have an auto, but they do have things like auto focus point selection. Generally I avoid these like the plague, but I did attend one pool party where putting the camera on F8 and auto focus point selection made capturing most of the event possible. Without that it was essentially a nightmare.

Now personally I will generally recommend that a person not use auto... but rather use PROGRAM, because auto also will decide to change your ISO setting and pop up the flash on you, and those two things can be very destructive and are things you generally want to control yourself. However, I have seen a case or two where auto made sense.

Don't look down your nose at anything on your camera, or I'll drum up a bunch of old schoolers who will point at you and jeer and laugh because you have autofocus, use digital instead of film, and frankly use a camera instead of painting on the cave wall in mud.

Get the point?

I can't tell if this is a rage post or not, I've read through it a few times.


My original point was not "don't use auto," but rather how many times this dude has come on and asked for help and then slammed everyone who offered it. It's not suggesting he's "less of a person" for using auto or anything like that. My first run-in with a DSLR was a Sony a200 or something, it was an ex girlfriends. I didn't know how to use it off green, so I went seeking advice. When I was told by multiple people to get off green and try out "P" (or M/S/A) I did, because I was taking advice from people who had so kindly given it too me, and I really did want to learn how to take better pictures. After that, I began searching for more info, and I tried and practiced and tried and practiced until I am where I am now, where I can "properly" (suggestive) expose an image using the cameras light meter, and my knowledge of the exposure triangle and how it all works together. Not saying I'm an expert, here, either, because internet forums love to take a sentence like that and slam everything you've ever done if you're not careful.


If you look at this guys history, he's done step 1: go for help. But he doesn't seem to listen much to the help he's being given. Maybe he is... I have no idea. He gives one sentence posts saying "I tried to take a picture and it didn't work, give me advice." The point I'm trying to make to Kyle is pay a little attention to the advice that's out there. I don't know if you know this, but he's starting a freelance photography business. He wants to make a business, I'm just trying to point him in the direction that tells him to know how to get the best image in all situations so that he's not selling his customers short.

 

[table1349]

Yes we do.


Lack of basic camera and exposure knowledge.

But did the OP actually use a meter, or just set the camera to Manual and expect 'things to work out'?

Well since the OP asked, and I quote, "What Meter." my belief, based on the totality of the OP's questions and responses, the OP is a kid that doesn't have a clue.

 

[480sparky]

Well since the OP asked, and I quote, "What Meter." my belief, based on the totality of the OP's questions and responses, the OP is a kid that doesn't have a clue.

My guess is the OP put the camera on M, and just chose the ISO, aperture and shutter speed either entirely at random, or chose three settings because "that sounds good!",... or just used the settings the camera was left at the last time it was set to M.

Since the odds of random settings producing a 'proper' exposure with the given scene, the OP thought something was wrong with the camera. Fact is, it's just Operator Error.

Either way, we'll probably never know. Even if the OP does return and post, it may well be just more random words strung together.

 

[table1349]

This is probably closer to the truth. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jyaFg9IwH...00/im-not-a-troll-demotivational-poste[1].jpg

 

[beachrat]

I have been lurking on this forum for months now and this is my first post.
"Wow" is the best I can con come up with.
The whole thread has me saying,"Wow"".
I mean,"WOW".

 

[beachrat]

I also meant,"can" rather than "con".

But,still,"WOW".

 

[KmH]

Boy Howdy Pard! :thumbup: Welcome to TPF! :camera:

 

[beachrat]

Great stuff here.
For real.