Manual Photography cheat sheet : )

[ikprojekt]

Todd, links not working mate.

[bluefrog]

Todd, links not working mate.

sorry gents, funds for my old image host must have dried up ... all fixed

[bluefrog]

dragged my arse outside this arvo and forced myself to use the dreaded M mode that I've had nightmares about for so long

I used a fairly un-educated method and for any given exposure I took pics with multiple aperture settings, then adjusted exposure and did it again and again. I was lazy and just set ISO to auto.

I found the histogram display mode to be very useful btw.

so then I loaded up the umpteen test pics and selected the best one, and finished it off with photoshop ... gonna try this again tomorrow in a better location and see if I can actually learn anything

[ikprojekt]

looks good mate, however on the other side iPhoto simple, quick, easy & makes your photos look like a pro's

[J.T]

^ might be true to a degree.. but what are you learning from this?? not a lot.
there is a lot more satisfaction in knowing how to take a good photo and edit it properly with an undertanding of what you are doing, rather than letting intelligent software call the shots..