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Cameras and photography

BeckyThump

As I know there are a few people on here who are quite the photographers, I'm wondering whether anyone might be able to give me some advice about starting out with photography and cameras. I'm a bit of a birdwatcher and have been wanting to take decent pictures of the birds for a while so I have recently bought myself a Canon Eos 2000D DSLR camera. It came with a 18-55MM lens and I've borrowed a 70-300MM lens from my brother in law, and so far I seem to be getting on ok with it. Mostly I've been using the cameras autofocus function but I'm finding it's focusing on the wrong things sometimes so the subject is often a little blurry. Is there a knack to using autofocus, or am I better of doing it manually? If I do it manually, how do I focus fast enough when birds move quite quickly? Any help would be much appreciated!

Token picture of a sedge warbler from Frampton Marsh last week!

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  • BeckyThump said:
    Is there a knack to using autofocus, or am I better of doing it manually?

    Autofocus will focus on what it is pointed at, but in the case of the bird here there are leaves and plants in the foreground which the camera will probably think it needs to focus on.

    The trick is using autofocus when there is nothing else in the way and manual focus when you are maybe picking a face out the crowd, a bird in a bush or a particular part of a reclining body (ahem!).

  • in reply to Iain

    I think then I need to practice manual focusing on subjects that don't move as much to start with so I can get the process down pat before attempting it on fast moving birds.

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