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1st picture on me new christmas camera canon eos 400d thanks alot to tontoshorse for putting me in the right direction of resizeing my pictures spot on, never used a proper camera before it probably shows though any pointers would be goodView attachment 44243
You were using flash - was it on auto mode? Try setting it to manual mode, ISO100 and the shutter speed to 1/250 and the aperture to f/8. Then press the pop up flash button to activate the flash - and off you go!
I alway find auto mode stuffs up photos taken with the built-in flash. But Manual mode, ISO100, 1/250s and f/8 are usually pretty damn spot on.
On the Canon EOS systems Manual mode meters for the subject, whereas Tv and Av mode meters for the background.
There's a good article here
http://photonotes.org/articles/eos-flash/
TI was using AV Mode but as it was quite dark I was having to use F4 and ISO800 and still getting slow shutter speeds, but when using the flash the shutter speeds were much faster but I don't know what speed they were as the exif shows the speed from the original non-flash exposure. What I mean is that if I use a flash I can increase the shutter speed but how do I know what to choose - what effect does the flash have on the exposure ?. If for example my non flas exposure shows f4-1/20-iso800 can I adjust that to say f4-1/60 or 1/90 - how do I know how much. I am probably being really thick here but this is probably the reason I don't use the camera much indoors
Thanks onefivenine for your help. Sorry to have hijacked your thread Paul, that was a far better picture than my first DSLR effort.