abbylou1910 wrote in post #16961646
Hi Everyone! I'm new to the forum, but have been reading all of the 6D posts over the past month (I'm a loser). Your pictures are all amazing! I bought a T3i a year and a half ago not knowing anything about dslr cameras and have been hooked since. I recently decided to upgrade since I'm taking a trip of a lifetime to Fiji this summer and want to get the best possible pictures. I only have a month to practice! I love the low light capabilities of this camera! My T3i wouldn't even let me take a picture in my living room at night! I joined Flicker and uploaded the pictures that I've taken so far...mostly my dog in low light and some outside shots. My husband and I hiked to some local waterfalls with a tripod yesterday to prepare for Fiji waterfall pictures. I tried to edit them to the best of my ability in Lightroom. I even tried to use LR enfuse to try HDR, but not sure if I had much luck.
Here is a link to the flicker album:
https://www.flickr.com …233@N08/with/14379875595/I'm not sure about embedding the pictures...are they too big?
I'm currently trying to read some books and google as much information that I can. I have some questions if anyone would like to help me out
I know that my shutter speed should be faster than the focal length of me lens...I just have a hard time applying this concept when I zoom in. When I see my blurry pictures at least I have an idea why they're blurry.
My metering is set to center weighted average. Is this something that I should change if I am taking landscape pictures when the sky is bright? I'm finding that a lot of pictures from yesterday had a washed out sky.
After reading all of your posts, I've set my camera to back button focus. I'm just having a hard time getting used to it. I also have a hard time knowing where to focus. If I am taking pictures of people, I focus on the closest eye? What about multiple people? How about for landscapes?
Thanks in advance for your help!
I have just had a look and I think you could be teaching folk here a thing or two. People portraits, focus on eye/s. Generally use a longer lens or zoom over 80mm on your full frame (6D). However once again I will say you are the artist so you are in charge of what you produce. So take lots of pics and analyse thoroughly, toss out the undesirable. Eventually you will get quite instinctive about producing the shot. Evaluative metering generally works well, use spot where you want a feature to exposed accurately which could range from white bride's dress to a ray of sun in the bush. I generally downsize pics on Flickr so they are not so good for the commercially unscrupulous. I am sure someone better than me can explain how to post a pic in these forums for you
