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Ellen Schwartz

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hi everyone.
i love love love photography--mostly candid portraits and sports. lately, almost all my stuff has been sports-related. my daughter plays soccer and my son plays football. i have been taking the soccer pis for about 8 years and the football since last year. this year, i started to photograph our varsity team and i post the pictures after each game on shutterfly(http://piratefootball2008.shutterfly.com/).

last week--at homecoming no less--my digital rebel rebelled. i bought a canon 40d and a 70-300(4-5.6).
i am almost embarrassed to say that i have been using the automatic sports setting for the past couple years--the pictures have been good, but i am so wanting to take them to the next level. since last week, i have been trying more manual methods with some success--but i am having difficulty with the correct exposure and how to achieve it. today, for example, the light was completely different from one end of the soccer field to the other

i do have a version of photoshop but usually just use my iphoto to do some basic adjustments after upload.

i am not sure how to add the pictures to these entries. please advise and i will add some recent photos.

thanks. ellen
 
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Trudy Montgomery

New member
ellen,

Welcome to the forum, from one newbie to another. I have a rebel also. Keep working with the manual settings... you will get it! One of the best tips I received was to take the same picture and just move the manual setting a notch at a time... then you really get a hands on self taught lesson on using your camera... this little trick has helped me tremendously. I also work on learning one manual setting at a time (AV, TV... etc.) before moving onto the next one.... sure this means I may not have always used the right options for the picture but it's a living hobby and it grows with you.... so keep at it!

To put a picture in your post you need to upload it somewhere... then put the url in between this....
B]url [B]
.... or use the icon that is yellow with a little mountain on it in the toolbar for composing a message.

trudy
 
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