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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 364403" data-attributes="member: 6277">Use the cheat sheets BUT learn what they are telling you and more important learn WHY the settings are doing what they are doing. Don't try to learn everything all at the same time. It will only confuse you and frustrate you. Pick one thing or setting and practice with it till it becomes second nature. Go out and shoot in Shutter priority and use every shutter speed on the exact same shot just to see what happens. Do the same thing in aperture priority and see what difference it makes. I did this in program mode with every ISO just to see how far I could go before the noise made the photo unusable. I have done the same with each camera I have had from the D3100 to my present D7100.&nbsp; It is a good exercise.&nbsp; The most important advice I can give you in to not get so bogged down in the details that you aren't having fun shooting. When I am just going out to have fun I stick it in program with a minimum shutter speed set in the ISO and ISO to 100 / Auto with a max of 6400.&nbsp; When I am doing something more serious I pick the mode that the shot calls for from M to A to P to S.&nbsp;&nbsp; The only mode I never shoot in is Auto. The flash popping up when it wants to just drives me crazy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 364403, member: 6277"] Use the cheat sheets BUT learn what they are telling you and more important learn WHY the settings are doing what they are doing. Don't try to learn everything all at the same time. It will only confuse you and frustrate you. Pick one thing or setting and practice with it till it becomes second nature. Go out and shoot in Shutter priority and use every shutter speed on the exact same shot just to see what happens. Do the same thing in aperture priority and see what difference it makes. I did this in program mode with every ISO just to see how far I could go before the noise made the photo unusable. I have done the same with each camera I have had from the D3100 to my present D7100. It is a good exercise. The most important advice I can give you in to not get so bogged down in the details that you aren't having fun shooting. When I am just going out to have fun I stick it in program with a minimum shutter speed set in the ISO and ISO to 100 / Auto with a max of 6400. When I am doing something more serious I pick the mode that the shot calls for from M to A to P to S. The only mode I never shoot in is Auto. The flash popping up when it wants to just drives me crazy. [/QUOTE]

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