Another newbie

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CLT Buckeye

New member
After taking pictures of my beautiful baby girl for 6 months with a less-than-great P&S and/or iPhone, I finally got around to stepping up my photo game. I just picked up a Nikon D5300, so at least I'll be able to (hopefully) take better pics of her first Christmas. I've never used a SLR-type camera before, and I imagine I'll rely (probably too much) on the Auto settings in the beginning, but I hope to become proficient at taking the controls, so to speak. I look forward to gleaning whatever knowledge I can from y'all (I already have).

Thanks in advance!
 
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Lawrence

Senior Member
Welcome aboard Buckeye

By all means use the auto settings as they do make things easier. They can also teach you a lot if you replicate them in "manual" mode and try to figure out where you can improve.

Lots of help available on here too so get those photos up!
 
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jay_dean

Senior Member
Hello and welcome. Do a bit of reading and experimentation, get out of auto, and get the most out of your camera and your photo's, you'll enjoy (and frustrate) yourself much more!
 
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