Tanner
It’s not often to actually talk to someone about the settings and editing side of photography. It is not really a question that I am asked about.
Tanner and I however spent an entire day discussing cameras, and where to start with what camera. My suggestion was what brand do you want to start with.
I suggested the Canon 80D, the first DSLR camera I started with coming from digital cameras and .3 MP cell phones.
I also suggested the Sony a5100 the first mirrorless I started with and my switch to Sony camera.
So after talking an entire work day Tanner decided to go the canon direction, which is really good in my opinion for starting out and getting a feel for taking photos.
My main suggestion when looking into cameras was just being able to shoot in RAW.
Having the option to shoot .RAW is very important in my opinion. Controlling the Shadows and Highlights after the fact is really useful for many reasons.
With my Sony A7RIII a lot of times when even reading my histogram and seeing my screen when I import into Lightroom my images are still slightly under exposed and being able to use the .RAW image to counter that has really helped.
Running through the starting up process with someone who was genuinely interested was really cool.
So, shoots in .RAW, watch your histogram, pay attention to your exposure meter I think the most important thing though is to not compare yourself. Being off of social media has helped a lot with not comparing my work or my accounts performance to others. It is all about learning, having fun, and capturing.
I will compare myself to myself, but I won’t compare myself to someone else anymore. I will look back at something I captured a year ago and think what settings I would use now versus what I used at that time, or how I would color grade something now versus how I did at that time.
I have also talked about in other Blogs challenging yourself. I think starting out is challenging enough with everything you have to get used to and what you are learning. YouTube is your best friend but also having someone you can talk to is something I didn’t think of because I didn’t really have it. Being that person for someone is pretty fucking awesome even though sometimes I don’t feel I know as much as I would like.
My next day of shooting for fun will be shooting wide without my CPL filter
I have an event coming up in tight areas shooting and focusing on people and I need to be more ready for that than I am now, so I need to challenge myself to use this lens more than I do.
Super awesome lens for being ASP-C (Advanced Photo System type-C) on a full frame. ASP-C is also known as being Crop, so Crop Sensor Lens on a Full Frame Lens so I am having to use Crop mode on my camera to keep from having black borders and losing just a touch of quality. It still produces beautiful colors and captures so much information in one photo.
Back to the topic though, being apart of someone starting photography and wanting to learn more about creating photos and editing them has been really nice. I have enjoyed it a lot being able to be a geek about it. I also can't wait to see what all Tanner learns on his own and when he develops his own shooting and coloring style(s). It’s going to be pretty awesome!
Shot from Tanner’s Canon Rebel t7!
We all have to start learning somewhere.
