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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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  • Excellent photograph! 

    I love the detail. Thanks for sharing it with us.

    I love photography, it's something I've been working on these last few years. It was suggested to me after my mental breakdown. And I've not looked back since!

    Primarily I use my phone. Tut tut. But I do own a rather nifty big camera which I take out when the weather is good. I use it mostly for macro shots, something phones can't compete with! 

    What you could do to improve and learn is check out some YouTube videos where they show you the ropes. That's what I've been doing and I've now gone up from fairly terrible photographer to terrible photographer!

    Practice makes perfect! Smiley

  • in reply to M

    I've been doing some macro shots as well, I love taking photos of the flowers in my garden (and the bees if they stay still long enough!).

    What I'm realising is that I really need to pick only one expensive hobby, because kayaking, photography, birdwatching, cross stitch and reading are collectively bankrupting me! Although that's mostly the kayaking and the photography, and my inability to not do something 100% straightaway.

    This was one of my playing with the camera shots the other day.

  • in reply to BeckyThump

    That's a great photo! I love the colours and detail. Well taken!

    I mostly photograph cars because I'm boring ha ha. Do what you feel, that's what I do. So long as you enjoy it that's all that matters at the end of the day Slight smile 

    I did kayaking a few years ago but didn't enjoy it much..I got wet a number of times and found that I am not very good at kayaking but I am a good swimmer, which was most fortunate for me at that time!

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  • in reply to BeckyThump

    That's a great photo! I love the colours and detail. Well taken!

    I mostly photograph cars because I'm boring ha ha. Do what you feel, that's what I do. So long as you enjoy it that's all that matters at the end of the day Slight smile 

    I did kayaking a few years ago but didn't enjoy it much..I got wet a number of times and found that I am not very good at kayaking but I am a good swimmer, which was most fortunate for me at that time!

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