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<blockquote data-quote="jctusa" data-source="post: 398571" data-attributes="member: 35581">Thanks for your response.&nbsp; I know practice, practice, and more practice is the answer to my underlying question, but of course I haven't been doing that.&nbsp; Every time I plan on taking a string of photos to &quot;learn&quot; my settings, my model gets impatient.&nbsp; I guess I should concentrate first on stationary objects, but not what I want to do.Last night we were in a restaurant and this is the first time I have&nbsp; taken my Nikon D5300 with me, instead of my more compact Canon G12.&nbsp; I started snapping away in a average indoor light with out the flash and wasn't pleased with the results and then my model got uncomfortable and people start looking, so I stop.&nbsp; I guess the best thing for me is to just find something and start taking pictures and change the settings with each photo and then come home and see what looks the best.&nbsp; I don't want to put the camera on Scene as that would defeat my purpose of buying this camera, but I do want to be able to know - at least where I should start.&nbsp; Using 50mm lens, subject 15 feet away, I don't know what would be a good place to start.&nbsp; The only thing I am&nbsp; comfortable with is depth of field and IOS, which I &quot;think&quot; I understand.&nbsp; Dunlop, says he carried around a Canon manual and referred&nbsp; to it when first starting out.&nbsp; I don't want to be that guy, who wants to take a picture and has to pull out a book to do it.jctusa</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jctusa, post: 398571, member: 35581"] Thanks for your response. I know practice, practice, and more practice is the answer to my underlying question, but of course I haven't been doing that. Every time I plan on taking a string of photos to "learn" my settings, my model gets impatient. I guess I should concentrate first on stationary objects, but not what I want to do. Last night we were in a restaurant and this is the first time I have taken my Nikon D5300 with me, instead of my more compact Canon G12. I started snapping away in a average indoor light with out the flash and wasn't pleased with the results and then my model got uncomfortable and people start looking, so I stop. I guess the best thing for me is to just find something and start taking pictures and change the settings with each photo and then come home and see what looks the best. I don't want to put the camera on Scene as that would defeat my purpose of buying this camera, but I do want to be able to know - at least where I should start. Using 50mm lens, subject 15 feet away, I don't know what would be a good place to start. The only thing I am comfortable with is depth of field and IOS, which I "think" I understand. Dunlop, says he carried around a Canon manual and referred to it when first starting out. I don't want to be that guy, who wants to take a picture and has to pull out a book to do it. jctusa [/QUOTE]

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