Tip #1

Hey everyone!  Time to turn the dial off of automatic!  I am going to do 1 week of tips.  After that, I will evaluate and see if it might be worth doing a class or series of classes so that we can go more in depth.  I hope you find this helpful! The first two pictures were taken with my iphone.  The second two pictures were take with my Nikon D5000 with the kit 18-55mm lens.  I never use this lens, but since that is the lens most everyone has I decided to use it.

Tip #1: Turn your camera dial from automatic...

To program mode.

This will keep your flash from popping up.  If you MUST use a flash, you will have to turn it back to AUTO.  Now, you can also turn the dial one notch down.  That is auto mode without flash.  Program mode is better for outdoors.  The pictures I took below were taken on AUTO with flash and AUTO without.

With flash

Without flash

One reason to never shoot on AUTO.  The flash was just not needed.  The picture without the flash looks much better than the one with.

Obviously this is just a "tip".  I could go into MUCH more detail.  If any of you would be interested in a VERY BASIC class please email me!  sarah.k.thomas85@gmail.com  I think a class would be a lot of fun!