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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 465451" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>Well having read most of your posts it seems to me you're running headlong into the DSLR learning curve, which is fairly steep. It's nothing hard to understand but there's a lot to know about shooting with a DSLR that you need to know in order to start getting good shots. </p><p></p><p>Now, if you've made a lot of adjustments to your cameras settings, I'm going to suggest you reset everything back the factory defaults so you can start learning how to shoot properly and get good results; if you've adjusted a lot of settings things may not go as planned. To do a reset you press and hold both the MENU and INFORMATION buttons (you'll see they both have green dots by them) until the camera turns off briefly to complete the reset. Once that's done we're going to make a couple small changes to a couple settings. I'm assuming you are shooting JPG, but correct me if you're shooting RAW.</p><p></p><p>If you haven't done a reset at the very least turn off the HDR setting you enabled. This is an advanced shooting mode you don't need right now and it will make your shots look wonky if you don't know how to use it.</p><p></p><p>Second, we're going to increase the Sharpness and Saturation settings of the Standard Picture Control:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Press Menu, drop down onto the SHOOTING menu (camera icon), click on it, then drop down to "Set Picture Control".</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">From the "Set Picture Control" menu, click right one time and then drop down to STANDARD and click right one more time.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">From this, the Standard Picture Control menu, highlight the "Sharpening" setting and adjust it to +7.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">In this same menu adjust the "Saturation" setting to +1.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Press OK and you're done here.</p><p></p><p>Next, you're going to learn about the Exposure Triangle. No matter how far you go in photography, no matter how fancy or expensive your camera, you will never get away from the basics of the exposure triangle. The importance of understanding these three principles and how they interact with one another can NOT be overstated. This is the bedrock foundation of all photography. Here are some articles to help get you started.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-exposure.htm" target="_blank">Understanding Exposure</a> -- From Cambridge in Color.</p><p>This website has a LOT of excellent tutorials. I suggest you poke around here and read up on anything that interests you.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://photographylife.com/iso-shutter-speed-and-aperture-for-beginners" target="_blank">Understanding ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture</a> -- by Nasim Mansurov. See also his <a href="https://photographylife.com/photography-tips-for-beginners" target="_blank">Photography Tips for Beginners</a></p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">.....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 465451, member: 13090"] Well having read most of your posts it seems to me you're running headlong into the DSLR learning curve, which is fairly steep. It's nothing hard to understand but there's a lot to know about shooting with a DSLR that you need to know in order to start getting good shots. Now, if you've made a lot of adjustments to your cameras settings, I'm going to suggest you reset everything back the factory defaults so you can start learning how to shoot properly and get good results; if you've adjusted a lot of settings things may not go as planned. To do a reset you press and hold both the MENU and INFORMATION buttons (you'll see they both have green dots by them) until the camera turns off briefly to complete the reset. Once that's done we're going to make a couple small changes to a couple settings. I'm assuming you are shooting JPG, but correct me if you're shooting RAW. If you haven't done a reset at the very least turn off the HDR setting you enabled. This is an advanced shooting mode you don't need right now and it will make your shots look wonky if you don't know how to use it. Second, we're going to increase the Sharpness and Saturation settings of the Standard Picture Control: [indent]Press Menu, drop down onto the SHOOTING menu (camera icon), click on it, then drop down to "Set Picture Control". From the "Set Picture Control" menu, click right one time and then drop down to STANDARD and click right one more time. From this, the Standard Picture Control menu, highlight the "Sharpening" setting and adjust it to +7. In this same menu adjust the "Saturation" setting to +1. Press OK and you're done here.[/indent] Next, you're going to learn about the Exposure Triangle. No matter how far you go in photography, no matter how fancy or expensive your camera, you will never get away from the basics of the exposure triangle. The importance of understanding these three principles and how they interact with one another can NOT be overstated. This is the bedrock foundation of all photography. Here are some articles to help get you started. [url=http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-exposure.htm]Understanding Exposure[/url] -- From Cambridge in Color. This website has a LOT of excellent tutorials. I suggest you poke around here and read up on anything that interests you. [url=https://photographylife.com/iso-shutter-speed-and-aperture-for-beginners]Understanding ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture[/url] -- by Nasim Mansurov. See also his [url=https://photographylife.com/photography-tips-for-beginners]Photography Tips for Beginners[/url] [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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