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Photography Tips For Beginners Dslr
I need some tips and info about dslr lenses.?

I wanted to start photography as a hobby. After months of browsing the internet and learning small stuff about dslrs and photography I decided to get myself a Rebel t2i for my birthday. Im just starting to learn about photography (lighting, focus… etc.). Im planning on getting some starter lenses for my camera… Can you guys give me some advice and tips on which lens should I buy to start my hobby. I like taking portrait and pictures of some random objects… If you feel like being generous, you could also throw some tips on photography that I can use as a beginner. Thanks

The kit lens (18-55mm) is an ok lens to start with so I would stick with that until you understand how to use your camera better and have better sense of what type of photography you like. You don’t really want to start dropping some heavy cash on new lenses right away. start by learning how to use the camera correctly.

Learn how to use the camera in Manual mode.

Learn how apperture, iso, shutter speed and available light interact. Once you understand this, you’ll be able to make absolutely gorgeous pictures as YOU WILL control the light instead of BEING CONTROLLED by it.

Figure out what style of photography you like (lenses are very situational). For example, portraiture requires something like a 18-55mm, 50mm prime, 20-70mm (anyone of those works well) but large zooms are useless mostly for portraiture. If you are doing sports photography you’ll want long zooms like a 70-300 or 70-200 or higher.

The next thing about buying lenses is that it’s best to invest in good lenses as they will out live your camera body so that means buying lenses that are EF and not EF-S. EF-S is for cropped sensors like the T2i and not full frame sensors like the 5D MkII so if you upgrade to a full frame, you will want to change your lenses. Also, better glass is usually optically better, manufactured tougher and is usually much faster (wider aperture f1.2, f1.4, f1.8 or f2.8 compared to f4+) than the cheaper lenses. 2 lenses that I want to purchase (I rent them right now when I need them) are the 20-70 f2.8 L Series (1500$Can) and the 70-200 f2.8 L Series (2500$Can).

One lens that is dirt cheap and is really worth getting is the Canon 50mm f1.8. It’s only 140$Can brand new. The construction is cheap but at f1.8 it takes wonderful portraits with nice blurry backgrounds.

You might also best be served by buying a shoe mount flash before getting more lenses. Off camera lighting is awesome. (read http://strobist.blogspot.com )

Something else you might want to do is join a photography club.

Photography Tips For Beginners Dslr

Photography tips for a begginer?

Please could i have some photography tips,they don’t need to be specific, just any tips really.
I’m only a beginner, so I don’t really know that much and want to expand my knowledge. I do get photography magazines regularly too I’m not sure if this is relevant but i use a Samsung S1050. I’m hopefully getting a new camera next year (dslr possibly a canon 350D, or Canon 1000D. But until then im happy with my point and shoot)
Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Keep your camera with you as often as you can. I just started playing with photography about 6 months ago myself and there have already been a number of times I missed an interesting shot because my camera was at home.

Just last night I missed a shot at sunset where the moon was hovering above some clouds opposite the setting sun. I took a shot with by blackberry, but it doesn’t do justice to what I actually saw.

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Photographing some runners? Any quick tips?

After school I’m going to a track meet to photograph some buddies running. I have a pretty able dSLR, I was just wondering if anyone had some helpful advice for a beginner of sports and action photography.

Thanks in advance!

When capturing athletics, your top priority is going to be fast shutter speed to avoid motion blur.

Assuming you’re attempting individual / relatively close shots (rather than of the track as a whole), you’re likely looking at a relatively open aperture as well.

Depending on your lens, you’re potentially looking at using an aperture priority mode with aperture wide open, then hoping shutter is fast enough. You can of course also do shutter priority and set a quick fixed shutter speed, or even do full manual if you think you can get your exposure planned in advance — wide or fully wide aperture, and a fast shutter speed.

You’re going to need to anticipate dramatic moments and good angles a bit and likely use motor drive. Moments where you might like what you see are going to be gone too quickly if you wait until you see them to release the shutter.

It can be important to keep tapping your autofocus so you’re ready to go when something happens. Hopefully there’s decent enough contrast on clothing, so you’ll likely want to use the bigger target of the body for focusing rather than the face as you might normally do. It should be close enough, and with things in motion, you’re not exactly doing posed portraits anyway.

The more you can think through ahead of time what’s going to occur and where people are going to be, the more you can plan what you need to do and do it rather than run around futilely chasing things in the moment.

There will be a bit of trial and error involved, and some luck in getting decent shots, so don’t be surprised at a keeper rate lower than usual, and that you need to fill up your memory card more than usual.

Though it can fill up some memory cards faster and result in a smaller burst, if you can shoot and process RAW files, it gives you some flexibility in correcting exposure issues and the like that might come up, especially if you go fully manual.

Anyway, fast shutter however you do it is number one. If everything is ending up blurry from movement, little else is going to matter. And the camera isn’t going to know you need fast shutter unless you tell it somehow. If your camera has a “sports” or even “pets” mode, that’s what it does, too — puts priority on a fast shutter speed.

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