Canon EOS Rebel 300D

Elizabeth Schott · 11-30-2004, 01:56 AM

I thought you guys might get a kick out of the fruits of my labor this evening. Here is one of the shots of the very rambunctious 5 year old.

The 7 year old girl was beautiful, but the jury is still out on the one we'll use for the older boy.

Thanks for everyones help, and Laura, Mom, I didn't even get a chance to get this metering worked out this evening. I do understand why any kid under seven must be shot outside during daylight, you really need the ability to pick your camera up and run with them. This guy was behind the drape more than in front.

I just keep the back a somewhat "Leffel green". It was a major learning to shoot three children when you have a dog that likes small boys and a puppy who's, well a puppy.

Take me away Calgon...
P.S. Yes I can see the fill light was too strong from the cast backdrop shadow!

Laura B. Shelley · 12-01-2004, 12:26 AM

I feel your pain. Here I've got this brand-new, extremely cool camera with tons of modern functions that I am putting great effort into learning, and I spend most of my time during shoots jogging from one end of a playground to the other just trying to get the kids in frame, much less properly exposed. Who knew painting children's portraits could be such a strenuous occupation?

Well, I hope that AE lock stuff will eventually come in handy for both of us; I don't think I've used it yet in the five shoots I've done since my Digital Rebel arrived. The true saving grace of digital cameras as far as I'm concerned is being able to carry two 512 meg cards in my pocket instead of ten or twelve rolls of film for my vintage A-1. When I can shoot 250-300 exposures in an hour without stopping to rewind and load, I have to be doing very badly not to find eight or ten good ones in the bunch!

Elizabeth Schott · 12-01-2004, 11:03 AM

Laura and all the rest who own a Canon Digtal Rebel... we will no longer let those Nikon people brag and go on!

Go to a photography store and buy the book, Magic Lantern Guides Canon EOS Digital Rebel

You will be totally amazed at the things this camera can do that you would never have known by just reading your manufactures manual. Histogram in the LCD/viewer... yeah, we got that! It's all there.

Laura and Mike, thanks for opening my eyes to research this!

Mary Sparrow · 01-30-2005, 07:33 AM

Ok Beth, Im a rebel with you now....got my rebel yesterday. Now to figure it out.

Elizabeth Schott · 01-30-2005, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Mary Smith

Ok Beth, Im a rebel with you now....got my rebel yesterday. Now to figure it out.

Congrats Mary!

I hope you figure it out well enough to teach it to me!

Alicia Kornick · 01-30-2005, 03:13 PM

Beth,

I bought the Canon EOS 20D and still playing with it. Is there a book for the EOS also that you would recommend.
Thinking of taking a course at a local camera shop on digital photography especially with the EOS.

Alicia

Mary Sparrow · 01-30-2005, 03:30 PM

Alicia, I don't know about the books, since I just got this thing yesterday, but I did spend a couple of hours in the wee hours this morning on www.photoworkshop.com and it was a fabulous tutorial if you haven't already done it.

I'm having a hard time getting good indoor pictures that aren't coming out blurry...with the tripod. The dang flash keeps popping up, and when I put it on the no flash mode it focuses OK, but not great. Any thoughts? Coming straight off a point and shoot, it is going to take time to learn all the manual focusing, so I need to know this camera can do the trick without me being a camera whiz.

I asked about this in a rebel forum and they thought I was nuts wanting to know why I would want to take portraits without a flash when portrait photographers had all sorts of flashes.