New Camera

[Gitrdone42]

Just bought a new camera today, got a Nikon D5100. First DSLR I've owned. Everything else has just been simple point and shoots. Just wondering if anyone had any tips they could share with me considering I know very little about photography. I am wanting to get into it just never had the money to buy a nice camera until now.

 

[bigbossin]

NIKON FTW

 

[webby]

http://9thcivic.com/forum/threads/photography-tips-tutorial-vids.3548/
This thread has a wealth of info on tips for all types of photography. Plus tips on composition, exposure, etc. Best advice would be shoot, shoot, shoot.

 

[KennyGS]

Best advice would be shoot, shoot, shoot.

 

[hotdogjohnny]

I always felt that the one thing that separated SLRs, now DSLRs, from the other point and shoots is the flexibility that you have with depth of field. Using your f-stops and shutter speeds, you can compose photos instead of just taking pictures. Read a lot, experiment and have fun. Now, with digital cameras, you can do it without wasting film!

 

[Gitrdone42]

Thanks for the responses, the place I bought the camera from gives a free class on how to use it and how it all works. I have that set up for next saturday.

 

[webby]

did it come with the:
"Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR Lens" ?

this site has a lot of reviews for various nikon lenses
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikkor.htm

there are also quite a few decent articles on his site if you look around.

 

[Gitrdone42]

Yeah thats the lens it came with. It will do for now until I can get some money for something better.

We had a family get together at my grandparents house today so I got to practice a lot with it. Took about 700 pictures of various things.

 

[webby]

haha, that's the spirit! You get some good stuff?

 

[Gitrdone42]

some if you can call it good lol

 

[ethlar]

lets see some pics, new camera thread without pics

 

[Gitrdone42]

Whats the size limit on photos here?

 

[ethlar]

you can post them in whatever size your hosting service will take, 9th will resize them down for normal viewing in your post

 

[Gitrdone42]

ok i will try going through something else, I tried through 9thcivic and it said too large

 

[Gitrdone42]

lets see if this works

 

[webby]

it'll let you upload 3meg pics directly... but you can host pics to any service like imageshack, photobucket, tinypic, imgur etc... then post the link here.

edit - I really like the water/dock pic

 

[Gitrdone42]

ok gotcha, yeah I tried getting shots from all around the pond that seemed to be my best one

 

[KennyGS]

Very nice!

Keep it up.