[BobG55]

Retracted

 

[mayurs]

Taken on a wild tiger safari in India

 

[bifcake]

 

[bifcake]

 

[LouisLoh]

 

[LouisLoh]

Singapore
iPhone 12 Pro Max

 

[Kukuk]

Nothing special, but I'm pleased with how they turned out; my first foray into photography:

 

[Chris Kaoss]

Which camera model do you use for?
Thank you.

Third one looks great.

 

[bifcake]

Nothing special, but I'm pleased with how they turned out; my first foray into photography:

Good for you! Keep working it, keep learning, keep practicing. I've been doing it for over 40 years and it never gets old. I always learn something new.

 

[Kukuk]

Which camera model do you use for?
Thank you.

Third one looks great.

It's a Sony a7iii with 28mm f/2 lens. Lens is pretty entry level but I'm very satisfied with it. Not rushing to buy a new one, but at some point I feel like I will need to.

Good for you! Keep working it, keep learning, keep practicing. I've been doing it for over 40 years and it never gets old. I always learn something new.

I think one of the main things I see myself needing to do is get off the auto setting. I've been futzing with the settings a bit, and I see a good deal of versatility, so maybe I can work myself out of auto one setting at a time. Learning post-processing also seems to be a good thing to learn. Any idea where I should get started there?

 

[BobG55]

Took this photo from my living room window this afternoon. Yesterday there was no more snow. This morning I woke up to this. And I believe Spring begins on the 21st. Love this small town of Milton, Nova Scotia. My wife and I retired here after both growing up in a big city, Ottawa. I never want to go back to city living.

 

[StSe]

Any idea where I should get started there?

I also like the third picture. Nice colours.

I would suggest to avoid Auto and P mode (that's fine for situations, where you just want to use your camera as a point and shoot device). For adding some more creativity I would mainly select mode A to have control over the aperture and therefore the depth of field. With F2 there is a big potential to isolate your main motif (e.g. the fence post) from the background. In Auto mode the camera decides based on some more or less intelligent algorithm hoe to combine aperture and speed, in A or S mode it's up to you. Big aperture (F2) -> blurred background; small aperture (e.g. F16 or F22) -> sharp from front to back. Nevertheless, the camera supports you in this mode by calculating the matching speed. You only should check, not to close the aperture so far, to force a speed so slow that you cannot hold the camera stable enough. Without a tripod the rule of thumbs for a maximum exposure time is 1/focal length in your case 1/28 sec. (depending on how steady your hands are, this can slightly differ).
If you want to play around with moving objects, your prefered mode should be S to give you control over the exposure time while the camera calculates the matching aperture.
No need to go to full manual mode M (yet). That might in the beginning cause more frustration than fun.
Another option to consider is the ISO setting which will influence the exposure time. Lower settings mean a less sensor sensitivity which results in the best possible picture quality but needs longer exposure time. Higher settings shorten the necessary exposure time but also lower the picture quality (this depends mainly on the camera model, modern types can handle astonishing high ISO values until the picture quality drops remarkable). So in bright sunlight ISO could be set to e.g. 100 while you still get fast speeds but maybe inside a room or in the afternoon, it might be necessary to set ISO way higher to get a reasonable aperture/speed combination.

Now I have written way more than I intented, but it's a topic where you never stop learning.

Grab your camera, play with the settings, and have fun!

 

[Kukuk]

That's some great info, thanks! Gives me a good jumping off point for tinkering with settings and looking up guides.

 

[StSe]

To not only post text in the pictures thread ...

 

[Redcarmoose]