>>1400859
She has some other expensive lense but she doesn't know what it is (rich and buys whatever she wants whenever without being good) that it comes with.

>>1400860
>She has some other expensive lense but she doesn't know what it is (rich and buys whatever she wants whenever without being good) that it comes with.
>expensive lense but she doesn't know what it is (rich and buys whatever she wants whenever without being good) that it comes with
>expensive lense;that it comes with
>shitlens

But still, 150 for a T3I, FUCK SON.

>>1400861
I mean an expensive lense that she bought after the camera, but yeah right now I'm trying to take money out of my savings to finally purchase it.

>>1400864
THATS A 900 DOLLAR CAMERA!
>shewantsyou.mp3

>lense
Stop saying that, seriously, it's either lens (english) or linse (german, although "objektiv" is more common), but NOT lense. This always makes me cringe.

>>1400885
tube thingy with the glass and twisty deals.

OP play this right and you are made for lyfe

Do we care.

>>1400842
That's a pretty sweet picture, what are /p/'s thoughts to replicating an image from professionals but giving credit to the photographer?

>My friend is selling me her Canon Rebel t3i for $150
>... I'm trying to take money out of my savings to finally purchase it.

man, if I knew you in real life I'd just *give* you the money

>>1400885
my b

>>1400842
>My friend is selling me her Canon Rebel t3i for $150

Let me guess, she never learned to really shoot the camera on manual, she got tired of taking pictures of plates of food, and now she just uses her iphone to snap pictures of her friends.

>>1401078
Exactly. I am so lucky

>>1401081
Yes. You really are. I am happy for you, but I hate how for some girls, having a vagina between their legs turns their brain off.

My frend offers me his cam idk if its any good but its pretty big and has some big lense with a red ring on it the label on the cam says 1Ds Mark III and the lense says 85mm. Is it any good? he wants 300$ for it should i buy it?? is he trying to rip me off???

>>1400842

So nobody's actually answering what OP asked :P

>>1401118

Honestly, I think the best way for you to learn is by doing. Set it to manual, make sure you know how to control shutter speed, aperture and ISO quickly, and try to balance your lighting right for every shot you take.

Then balance the light in different ways. Lower the ISO and use a slower shutter speed. Lower the f-stop and raise the ISO. Raise the-stop and lower your shutter speed, etc. Take the same image balance the lighting with different settings to see how these 3 affect your photo differently.
Then go into a hosting site, deviantart, flickr, whatever, find some photos you really like and try to duplicate them without looking at what settings they used.

The photography course, if they do their job right, will probably teach you better composition, but everything else is best to learn by doing.

read the book "Light: Science and Magic - An Introduction to Photographic Lighting"

This book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240812255/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo
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A89DMAQ3278

>>1401081
Pic related

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>>1400886
I have a friend who knows literally nothing about photography. One day he came into my room and saw my shelf full of lenses. He picked one up, held it up to his face to examine it, and said "Cool, look at all your fancy...nozzles" His voice trailed off when he said nozzles because he knew they weren't called nozzles but that's the only thing he could think of to say. I was like "What did you just call them" and he tried to play it off like no big deal but I almost died laughing.

Maybe it would help to know the guy. He's like 6'4, insanely jacked and is legally deaf so he wears hearing aids and talks sorta like a deaf person.

Rather than start up another thread I'll just here.

I'm also interested in starting up photography. I can get a Nikon D60 off craigslist for 225. Apparently the flash latch is chipped so it doesn't want to stay closed.

Is that fixable? Is this a decent deal or should I pass on it?

>>1402474

>>1402477

So is the camera decent for that price?

Aperture is how much light your letting in. The smaller the # the more light your letting in and the shallower the DOF (things will be out of focus but for one thing) and the higher the # the less light your letting in, and more will be in focus

ISO is how sensitive the camera is to light. 100 has little grain, the higher the # the more grain, but the faster you can shoot

Shutter speed is how fast you are letting in light. 1/60 is generally the lowest you can go normally without it being blurry. if you shoot fast like 1/2000 you can freeze anything in air. if you shoot slow like 30 seconds, you will need a tripod so it will not be blurry

Its kind of like a game. In order to get the shot, you need to balance these three things out to get just the perfect amount of light into your camera to take the picture. Luckily, the camera has a meter on the inside to help you find that spot. it will look like this

[-2__[-1__[0]__1]__2]

getting it at 0 is your goal. -1 is under exposed (darker) and 1 is over exposed (lighter)


http://www.digital-photography-school.com/learning-exposure-in-digital-photography
for a more in depth look at this

>>1402482

So much this.

Sunny16. Learn it, live it, love it.

Buy it right away anon.

>>1402487

Is that at OP or >>1402474?

>>1402488
D60 sucks.