CptAmerica

Those silly black squares really ruin pictures.

When learning the basics, just put the camera on Program mode (P) and just go take photos. Don't worry too much about the camera itself. Photography is made, primarily, by three things: 1) The ...

The first picture is exposed fine.  What are you trying to accomplish? What isn't working for you? Are you asking about how to manipulate your camera settings? or how to take more interesting ...

Sad day.

They look like normal Earth colors to me.  A proper white balance is key to getting good colors.

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I wasn't talking about an 18-80 specifically.  The NIkkor 18-105 f3.5-f5.6 is very popular. A SUPER useful zoom range, but cut and clarity suffer.  So yes, the wide range super zooms DO exist.  ...

Phone people don't care about sensor size or what it means. Photographers will use actual cameras. The reason these things are never advertised, is because it doesn't matter to %99.9999 of the ...

The ultra zooms exist, ones that go really wide to pretty tight... but they still don't "do it all" , because in order to gain that zoom range advantage, you give up something else. Every lens has ...

Because it doesn't matter.

Sounds like a bunch of hogwash to me.

Here is another example I use when I am teaching composition. This is a neat one, because I have placed my subject and background in a specific place to create something a little out of the ...

BOOM! Much better. We didn't lose any of her pose, we didn't lose the idea she's looking out of a window and we are MUCH more sucked in to the person... the eyes. Even though the window sitting ...

Also... there is another way to go, too. Had the shot been a lot wider, with a raised position of the shooter... the shot MIGHT have looked better with the windows open equally on both sides with ...

Not quite done yet. Try and keep about this number of pixels in your picture, but see if you can move her head UP in the picture a little bit. Put her eyes about where her bangs currently end... 2 ...

Another thing to look out for, is how far away you subject is placed from the edge of the picture. It's ok to leave spacing. It's ok to crop so tight that things are totally off the edge. Where ...

Nope... I would shift her to the right.  First, the energy in this image is relatively stagnant. No real direction,. So next, look at pieces around your subject and see if anything else (shapes, ...

300PPI is the general rule of thumb.  Devide your pixel dimensions by 300 to get a rough idea of how large you can print. Some people say they don't mind 200... but that's up to you.

Composition isn't just where around the frame you place your main subject.  There is a lot more to it than that. That's Just one piece.  A lot of your composition is everything else in the ...

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