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Photography is not my personal forte'. Even though I have a DSLR ,I often use the easiest, automatic settings.
My theory ? Take 500 shots and a couple of them are bound to be "keepers"..lol
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Ask at your local camera shop if there are any photography clubs and classes.
Later and Happy Frogging,
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With Canon you have four choices (basic, at least) for macro lenses.
50mm Macro 2.5 for any Canon, not 'true 1:1 macro' -----about $300
60mm-s 2.8, for 1.6 crop factor cameras, which yours is-------about $500
and for any Canon camera, the 100mm L IS 2.8 --about$1100, or cheaper , by half 100mm non-L IS 2.8
Most go with the $600 100mm 2.8 non L IS
I use AV mode which lets me choose ISO and aperature and the camera calculates shutter spead and always calculates white balance, no matter what mode on my camera. my 'real ' photography buddies tell me I need to shoot everything on a tripod with a remote shutter release. Just got my pod yesterday.
But , I've only been messing around with DSLRs for about 6 months and I have no clue what I am doing yet. Phil's method worked for me , up until I submersed my old Nikon ($800 at the time of purchase, so it was not a cheap P+S) P+S in water and killed it. 500 pics, one good shot...
Rich
Darts with parasites are analogous to mixed tanks, there are no known benefits to the frogs with either.
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...and , after looking up a '550' it seems you have a point and shoot (?), not a DSLR, which does not allow for lens exchanging. A DSLR will. You can find some pretty freakin' good P+Ss out there with a macro mode (Nikon Coolpix 5400 comes to mind...), yours may be one. With P+Ss you let the camera calculate everything and you also get to go through those 500 pics and keep one you like.
Darts with parasites are analogous to mixed tanks, there are no known benefits to the frogs with either.
If tone is more important to you than content, you are at the wrong place.
My new email address is: rich.frye@icloud.com and new phone number is 773 577 3476
There are some absolutely wonderful pics here so any tips on getting them eg white balance - anything really.
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