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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 531298" data-attributes="member: 6277">I will add my opinion here for anyone that might be interested. A brand new photographer just starting outwith a basic DSLR who has never even heard of post processing and it only planning to shoot family and friends and post on Facebook needs to shoot JPEG only. That and put it in Program mode and Auto ISO.  Let them have some fun and get some pretty good photos. As they get used to the camera and decide they want to learn more then and only then should they move away from JPEG and Program.  I have seen to many new programmers get so frustrated because they were told that they should only shoot Manual because that is the the way "Pros" do it. They end up with terrible photos because that friend is in the wind when it comes to guiding them an training them. They end up sitting that camera on the shelf and not shooting anymore.  I have a friend that was that way. The first time I went out shooting with him I looked over and her was fumbling with his camera and not really shooting at all. I offered to help him and when I looked at his shots they were unrecognizable and we were shooting the same thing. He was shooting in manual and had everything so out of whack that it was impossible to get a good photo. I asked permission to reset his camera and then set it to Program, and exposure compensation to 0 and ISO to 100 since it was night but we were shooting with tripods. I then told him to just shoot. His result were perfect. Since then we have shot together so many times and he has progressed way past that point. He was barely shooting when we started but now he has bought a new D7200 and had Adobe CC.  You have to let a new photographer have some success in the beginning in order for them to get the love of photography we all have now</blockquote>

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