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New amiture photographer needs help.

Started May 25, 2016 | Questions thread
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Re: New amateur photographer needs help

Welcome Leilani to the Rebel forum. Congratulations on getting your new camera. There are so many different setting to choose and it will take you some time to learn.

I'll give a starting position that I like to use. First with your Canon 18-55mm lens, pick aperture priority, and then select F8. Pick the single AF point, and choose center-weighted exposure. If you want to increase the shutter speed, keep raising it until ISO1600. In difficult lighting the camera sometimes can have difficulty locking on the focus. The settings I gave you are like "training wheels" when some people first learned how to ride a bicycle. See if those help you as a beginner. Then keep reading things on the internet & your manual, watch YouTube videos and ask us any questions later. For any of the terms that are not easily understood that I wrote, they should be found on the internet.

Also one more tip...understand how to adjust the exposure compensation. That way you can make the photo brighter or darker from the way the camera looks at it. I'm often doing that, after looking at the image in the LCD screen. That way, I can see whether I have to make those exposure adjustments.

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