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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2016 06:45:09 No.2903713 View View Reply Original Report

Hey /p/,

I am getting a DSLR on Tuesday, and will be flying to Japan for 4 months on Saturday. How can I practice to be able to take better pictures and use the camera more adeptly? I don't have a lot of time, but I've done a good bit of reading up on cameras so I'm not flying blind.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2016 06:46:37 No.2903715 Report

Quoted By: >>2905047

The best practice is changing settings in manual and taking pictures of landmarks near your house. However you can usually shoot in automatic as long as you at least focus manually.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2016 06:59:04 No.2903722 Report

Quoted By: >>2905047

Honestly, just playing around with manual settings is a good idea. But just putting it on Auto and focusing manually is a good start as well. Everyone learns at a different pase though so it just kinda depends on your knowledge of photography already,

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Anonymous Mon 15 Aug 2016 07:07:37 No.2903741 Report

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>>2903713
Try watching histograms and of course editing a few images that you shoot now.

Automatics are pretty good on good modern cameras. You will get a lot of good pictures if you only shoot halfway reasonably with a decent camera.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2016 03:37:14 No.2905035 Report

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>>2903713
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Anonymous Wed 17 Aug 2016 04:22:38 No.2905047 Report

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>>2903722
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't recommend manual focus to a beginner in a situation such as this. The kit lenses have very poor manual focus throws. DSLRs in general don't have a very good focusing screen for manual use (no microprism ring or split prim, just a matte screen instead)

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