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[hokiealumnus]

WOW that's pretty interesting, thanks for posting this.

I got my wife, for me also , a Cannon EOS Rebel T3 for Christmas and I am still a long ways from learning how to use it right. I use it mostly for my reviews.

I have a lot of problems with it on auto and getting the whole field in focus, but I think I can see by your example what I need to do.

The T3 is a nice camera, I used to have one.

A couple quick tips to make your photos pop -
-The T3 tends to over-expose, especially in lower light. Mine stayed set at -1/3 to -2/3 eV all the time. In low light, that sometimes moved to -1 eV and even -1.3 eV, depending on the situation.
-If you're using out of camera JPEGs (instead of processing RAWs yourself), use your user defined picture profiles. Set Sharpening to +6 in all of them**, then set them each to different levels of saturation. One 0, one 1 and one 2. The vast majority I used the Sharpening +6 and Saturation +1 profile. It will help your photos pop more than they probably do now.

**One caveat - you don't want to set that kind of sharpening if you're taking portraits that will be looked at by women with a fine-toothed comb. If you'll be doing a lot of people work, I'd ditch the +6/+2 profile and probably go with +2/0. For snapshots of people at family gatherings and the like, +6/0 is fine.

Lastly, if you do use aperture to adjust your depth of field, make sure you're on a tripod and set your ISO manually. It will very quickly raise to the highest automatic ISO when shrinking aperture, which can get noisy on the T3. Set ISO 100 or 200, put it on a tripod and let it choose the shutter speed. That way you won't have a noisy image, but still have the depth of field you want.

Your full size linkage crashed my fox ???

Always a worthwhile contribution from you hokie, I've been doing something similar using different f/ for the same shot but no where near as enlightening/easy to comprehend as your crayons, thanks

I cant decide which one is the keeper ??, not really 'into' B&W as a rule but it sure does/can add 'something'

I wonder what the seagulls are lining up for

Thanks! If you still want to see it, try right-clicking & Save As if it's crashing trying to load the huge image in your browser. It's something like 8000px wide, to give you an idea.

As to your photo, I like the composition very much but BZ has a great point about getting down to their level, it would have had even more of an impact. Not sure whether I like color or B&W better though. It doesn't help you at all to choose one, but I think I like them both the same.