This is my first year with a DSLR, and I am painfully slow adjusting my shutter speed, aperture and ISO. I adjust, take a test shot, and adjust again, delete test shot, take another...until I get it right. Up until now, I've been shooting tons of sports pictures and I don't have abrupt changes in lighting.

Taking pictures from one room to the next at our Thanksgiving gathering was causing problems! I had a really dark room (with the football game going) and a room with a sliding glass back door and lots of light. Depending on where I focused in the well lit room, my settings would need to change. How do I do that and still get good candids? I feel like I need to study the paparazzi!

I have not been able to get good pictures using full auto with this camera. Undoubtedly it's me, but if I'm going to learn something new might as well be manual mode. I can then fix full auto later. If you have any tips, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

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Marcy