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@Rocker Adobe Lightroom is software for processing your digital photographs and then cataloguing them in a way that makes them easy to find in future. It is not as complex as full Photoshop but still requires some training or a decent guide book to help you find your way around. Photoshop is also available in the "Elements" version which is aimed at hobbyist photographers. Again it allows you to process your photos and also to catalogue them. It is less complex and more novice-friendly than full Photoshop - and far cheaper.
Apart from COMPOSITION, which pretty much conquers all, I really disagree with this. Don’t use auto settings because you’ll just end up with either blown out highlights or under exposed foregrounds. There are just three considerations - Aperture, Shutter and ISO all of which affect each other.
Landscape photography generally demands a tripod so therefore the shutter speed is made virtually redundant. Either go full manual, which is NOT at all complicated or Aperture Priority, meaning you set the aperture and the ISO setting to determine the shutter speed which, with a tripod, can be whatever length of time.. Most landscape photography is based on mid aperture settings for good/acceptable front to back sharpness. There are other considerations like how to deal with flowing water, freezing movement to trees, focus stacking, long exposures etc but all of these are part of the fun of learning about your camera and editing software. Also, if you have an interest in landscapes, - as well as a tripod, get a circular polariser. Other filters can be easily overcome by using your camera’s bracketing setting and exposure blending in post production in Lightroom etc.
Also, shoot in RAW, it makes processing much more flexible.
There are a lot of excellent YouTubers making great photography content. I tend to take landscape images so Nigel Danson, First Man Photography, Andrew Marr, Thomas Heaton, Adam Gibbs are all worth checking out.
Photography is great fun!
Great choice with a Canon! I have a 40D and love mine!
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Does anyone have any suggestions for software to help speed up the whole "keep it", "bin it" process?
I'd like something with quick previews and the ability to create shortcuts on the keyboard, or drag and drop, for sorting images into different folders/recycling bin.
You can do it very quickly in Lightroom - just hit "x" on anything you want to delete to mark it as rejected, then ctrl+backspace (cmd+delete on mac) to delete anything marked as rejected.
If I'm importing via iPad I just use the iOS photos app to "star" anything I want to keep then quickly delete the others. Those 2 are about as quick as the process can ever be.
Lightroom. I import, then run through keep/bin, filter the bins and delete them.
The keeps are not all excellent, but the bins are poor composition, focus missed or just a terrible exposure.
My camera automatically Bluetooth transfers smaller file format previews to my phone, but I can't mark them in any way. I can also ask it to transfer the original but it takes longer as you can imagine. I do edit a lot of images for general sharing on my phone with Photoshop and Google photos.
I've never tried Lightroom, because I'm quite proficient with Photoshop and never feel I can't achieve what I want to achieve. I was not aware it included the sorting features too!
Looks like I should give it a try.
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What lenses have you ordered with the camera? You need the 10-18mm one for landscapes. It was on special offer in a kit at Argos last week. It's still much cheaper to buy in a kit than separately later
@ToneControl I ordered a kit that comes with two lenses, an 18-55mm and a 75-300mm telephoto. I will be looking to add a couple more lenses that are more suitable to what I want to achieve.
As I live between fantastic countryside and the sea I will be spoilt for choice for subject matter. I would really like to be able to take those kind of pictures that make rivers and the sea look like mist, is that down to exposure time?
Again thank you to you all for your help and advice, I didn't realise there were so many budding photographers on here!
Those two lenses will cover landscape portrait, snap shots and wildlife perfectly well. You may sometimes want wider and in time you'll possibly want faster (heavier, expensive) glass, but those two lenses will provide decent images.
The 18-55 is a really good one especially - sharp and fast focusing
Can of worms. Did the battery charger have a UK 3-pin plug? If not, what type?
I got that same kit from Currys for £350 last month
the best kit for you would be this (which I now wish I'd bought instead):
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/8048600
Canon EOS 1300D DSLR Camera with 18-55mm & 10-18mm Lens
£500 currently. Was £400 or £450 last month I thinkMy thinking is: the real wide angle EFS lenses are never cheap separately, the 10-18 is £200 I think
Whereas you can pick up 75-300 lenses much cheaper separately
10-18 is pretty much essential for landscape
But: you'll probably need ND (neutral density) filters, to make the daylight dark enough to allow long exposures.
The misty effect and the macro are both things to do a bit later, since they involve much more technical skills, and kit.