Last week I went to Jessops in Livingston to get some advice from the man who knowns - Al. I always go there as I find his advice to be very good. He is a photographer and videographer who advises others of the same ilk, and also wanabees.
Anyway, after seeking counsel from Al, I bought a Tamron 70-300 zoom lens and off I trotted.
I used it a couple of days later and was disappointed by the results. They were a bit blurry at the telephoto end of the scale. I tried out one or two things and was still disappointed by the result. Then I came upon the instructions which came with the lens and they said that when using a telephoto hand held it was better to set the ISO toward the higher end, so I tried it at 800. Problem solved, perfect results. It was not the lens that was the duffer; it was me!
This leads me to my point. Always read the instructions. I have a D60 which I bought a couple of months ago. I was in a bookshop the other day and I saw a book with the title "How to use your D60" and I thought about buying it.
Then it dawned on me that I already have this book but I haven't read it although it came free with the camera. It's called the instruction manual, but most of us have a quick glance at it, read enough to get started ( they always have a quick start guide) and crack on. However, the manual, when read through and understood, tells you all you need to know. The manufacturer of the camera wrote it after all.
I find that it is best digested in bite size chunks. Learn a bit then leave the rest to another time and slowly work through it. It pays dividends.
Anyway, enough of that. I went to Crammond island yesterday with my buddy George and we got some good shots before the rain came on. It always seems to rain at Crammond when we go there. I edited the shots and a couple of them looked almost like the ones you see in the magazines. I am beginning to get the hang of Photoshop but I will tell you about that another time.
Cheers,
Tony.
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