Angi Turnpaugh <shutterbug123@hotmail.com> writes: > Hello everyone! > Just landed postion of part time photog for our small local newspaper > (circulation 10,000) and I am very excited! Spent two days learning basics > of Nikon D1H and D1X....my first experience with digital... and a new one > for the paper as well a long way from the comfort zone of my 20 year old > Canon AE1-Program!! (2 days was NOT enough) Any words of advice? On the > camera, or photo journ. in general? This is a whole different slice of > photography for me as I have done mostly portraits in the past. (will be > keeping my 7 year position at Sears Portrait Studio for a while...security > blanket and extra income!) Learn to use the histogram display. It tells you an amazing amount about the image -- you can pretty easily tell if you've clipped highlights or blocked shadows. Digital is like slide film in that *overexposure* is the unforgivable sin (although a sufficient error in *either* direction is fatal, of course). And learn to use on-camera bounce flash if you haven't yet. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <dd-b@dd-b.net>, <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <noguns-nomoney.com> <www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera mailing lists: <dragaera.info/>
