Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Day Two

I have a Nikon D40 that is my little child and I absolutely love it. I was finding more cons to my camera this afternoon in class than I was the pros. I had a really hard time focusing. It is not that it did not focus, it was that once it focused it would not take the picture. It would have been a lot more simple if I was photographing a stationary subject. I could see in the lense that it would have turned out so great but I never could get that exact photo that I wanted to take! This happened to me when my lense was set to automatic focus. Once I switched my lens over to manual, I was definitely able to press my shutter and it took the picture however lots of the picture were blurry. I think I need more practice! Pros are that the camera does take good images if done correctly and the moment is actually captured. Another pro is that I am used to this camera so I can take the time to try out different effects since I have some options up my sleve!
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  1. Karen B.May 10, 2011 at 4:35 PM

    My daughter got a D40 for her last birthday and loves it. It's a great camera! But then again, I am strongly biased to Nikon. Loved your pic of Jeffrey, but I'm with you on needing the practice working with moving targets.

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  2. (Mary) Shannon JohnstoneMay 10, 2011 at 7:18 PM

    Moving targets are tricky. Very tricky. It is difficult to see what is in focus when you are in a situation with low light. It is hard for your camera to focus in those situations as well. You may try to have the camera focus on automatic, and then quickly switch to manual to take the photo? I have tried this a few times with limited success. I think a better option is shooting at the 3200 ISO. Durham County's shelter may have better lighting too... I am so interested to hear about it tomorrow!

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  3. Sweet AnnMarieMay 11, 2011 at 9:07 PM

    Peyton, I had a lot of trouble with my DSLR today in terms of pressing the button to take the photo and my camera just not shooting. It was very frustrating at times because I constantly wanted to take consecutive photos and my camera was not functioning quickly enough.

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