Completely New to Photography

[Ben!]

I have a HP 7.0 Mega Pixels Digital Camera, and I haven't got a clue on how to take good pictures, so could I have some advice please? Beginners advice and just slightly up from beginners advice perhaps?

Thanks guys.

[Ollie]

Originally Posted by Ben!

I have a HP 7.0 Mega Pixels Digital Camera, and I haven't got a clue on how to take good pictures, so could I have some advice please? Beginners advice and just slightly up from beginners advice perhaps?

Thanks guys.

Well Ben, I aren't familiar with the HP camera but it's definitely got enough megapixels to do the job. Best advice I can offer at the moment is study the manual for it and get to know all the controls settings etc as best you can. I'm sure someone will come along who has knowledge of this camera.
Roger

[Ben!]

I'll try to find a picture of it, then I'll edit this post, to help you guys out.

[Ben!]

Does it not let you edit after a certain amount of time?
Anyway, heres the link Clicky

[jasongallier]

Like poeple say - get to know your new camera. Thats the technical stuff.

Photographically - All you need to do is go out and have a play! Find something nice - bird, flower etc and photograph it from every angle, low down, sitting, standing. Try as many settings as possbile on your camera (the camera should keep a record of all of those settings). Get home and have a look on computer to see which are best. If you can't wait get a couple of cups, glasses or figurines and set them up on a well lit table and you can start playing this evening!!

Get a couple of phoyography magazines - they usually have lots of ideas and how to's.

Don't get too fustrated as it's a lot to take in at first, just enjoy yourself.

Goodluck,
Jason
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[Gaina]

Hello Ben

Tom Ang writes books on Digital photography that I found very helpful when I was first starting. You might want to have a look at 'Digital Photography: An Introduction' by Tom Ang. The ISBN number is 1405302356 and is published by Dorian Kindersly.

Hope that helps

[eeyore]

Hi Ben - if you give me your email adress I'll send you the advice sheet for complete beginers i wrote a while back - its best to use PM to send me the address as if you put it on the open boards you could get a shed load of spam.

[nightshade]

I think that it has a 35-100 zoom range so you will
have to practice your stalking skills
Practice close up on flowers and insects,read the
photo forum on this site,just use the camera and see
if you like the results.Look forward to seeing some images

[Ben!]

Sent you that PM, thanks guys, I've read the manual and thats helped me a lot, nightshade, how far is the maximum distance I can stand away from the object with the 35-100?

Sorry if thats a dumb question I just dunno whether it could be 35-100cm or 35-100 miles.

[nightshade]

Hi Ben the 35-100mm is the 35mm film equivalent of focal length
35mm gives a wide view, for landscape scenes or groups
100mm gives a telephoto view (or apparently brings the subject
about 3x closer)

Do you have the actual model number of your camera ? it will be
something like (for example) HP927 then we can help a bit more