Epic Fail

Using my camera in manual mode: I consider this time a failure and all I've got to say is
A. I'm either doing something wrong
or
B. They lied

I mean I don't know why it seems so simple and while all these cheat sheets you would think it would be simple. I used some of the tricks they said to do I put the ISO on 400 due to it being cloudy and take a look at my manual pic

 

I changed the ISO to who knows what and the best I got was these two pictures so I said screw it

 and took a picture in auto to see what it looked like.

This is in auto

Ok what did I do wrong? I mean I just don't get it

 

 I decided to give it another try......and again it doesn't work

At this point I'm trying to keep from chunking my camera to the ground or throwing it in the pond.

I keep repeating: They lied they said that sunny you put it on 400 to 600 for cloudy and low light

 

I went back to normal to see if my camera was broke but nope

It takes just fine in auto

 

I told my self one more time

I read everything again and I did what it said and booom looks like failure again.

I played with functions and just took pics and I couldn't figure out how to get my white balance to move to the middle instead of the right side



Looks like I am right back at the drawing board and will have to go and study more.
What the hell am I doing wrong?

Big girl Panties for a Big girl Camera

 

I have a love hate relationship with my Canon DSLR camera.

I always shoot it on auto and if I'm going to do that then I might as well use my iPhone, it does the same thing without the heavy weight. I want to learn how to use my Canon in manual mode and thought I would just hop on over to Pinterest and it would teach me these quick easy steps and I would be using manual mode in no time while creating these fantastic pictures. I couldn't of been more wrong. Although I pinned a lot of stuff on my Photography board I still have no clue as what I'm doing. Its a lot harder than I thought or either I need to learn more tricks.

Because it is so much and overwhelming I cant figure out where to start. Does it matter? Do I have to go in order? Even though its scary and I'm in the negative about knowing manual mode I know its time that I must put on my big girl panties and just jump into it. I'm going to take it day by day and each day learn something new and practice that feature then add to it.

 

As I did my research and studying I took all the cheat sheets from my photography board on Pinterest and but them all together to form a Master Cheat sheet for my self. I took the words I knew and understood and the ones I didn't I put it into my terms. I threw it together and here you have it.
When I get more time I'm going to fix me one up really cute instead of thrown together.

 

Here is another one I made to help me understand what the settings mean

 

I am going to play with this sheet and my camera and do some comparison pictures.
I'm hoping this helps.





How well do you know your Camera? What tips do you suggest?