ilse, Rhiana and me went to the beach yesterday and it was an excellent place to try out my camera gear.
Some lessons I have learned:
- Remember that every canon setting (p, Tv, Av) remembers it’s own setting and that changing picture size in one mode doesn’t set it for all modes.
- Partial averaging is a bad idea when your subject is wearing a black jacket.
- Changing the autofocus setting for continuous AF is don with the AF button on the right of the 1000D and not in a menu (and i wasted minutes looking for it there)
- Always remember to set the white balance back to automatic after having used it on manual mode
- AI focus = let the camera choose focus mode; AI servo = keep the subject in focus by tracking it
- Put one lens and a flash on and stick to it, cause kids run around too fast to keep up.
- Seagulls are bloody hard to track with a 250mm
