You feel bad using auto because you’re inexperienced. Experienced photographers don’t care.
Sweathog1016
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Digital DOF is a free app, depth of field calculator.
Look how many photographers feel entitled to free features and accuse camera companies of “crippling” because they don’t make some cool new feature available in their entry level lines.
It’s pretty universal, trying to get something for nothing.
None of the advancements do a bit of good if you don’t know which to use and when to use them.
- To set my initial focus point for a focus bracket.
- For close shooting where a want a specific item in focus (parts of a flower or whatever).
- For Milky Way shots (fine tune starts to bright points)
- Fireworks. Focus on a landmark near the launch site and flip to manual to lock in focus.
Just a handful off the top of my head.
That’s the, “if I can’t do it, nobody can!” fallacy. Must be cheating somehow.
That’s 15 cameras. Plus, OP has to eat.
I couldn’t time the sunset, but we had an awesome weather pattern with sun over the bend and a storm at the horizon. It was as amazing as we could hope for given our timing for midday light.
The Grand Canyon can look nice with some telephoto compression, but for 90%, that focal range should be okay. I’m assuming you’re on full frame. If not, I think you’ll want wider than 24.
I have a nice little 16mm f/2.8 that is pocketable so I used that occasionally. But part of the time I used it because I had it, more so than because I felt it was needed.
If you get up to Page, AZ and Horseshoe Bend, wider than 24 is needed. And there are nesting California Condors at Navajo Bridge in that area so you’d want at least 400mm’s.
Do you have a kit lens? Set it to 50 and use that focal length only. That’ll answer for you if you could live with that focal length as your prime. Or see what most of your current images are taken at. Find a fast prime that falls in that area.
If it’s 50, fine. If not, then you’re back to shopping around a bit. Canon has fast 24’s and 35’s. The 50 is just cheap because it’s a relatively simple lens design to produce a decent lens with.
The difference between being able to shoot at ISO 6400 and ISO 3200. Or ISO 3200 and ISO 1600. Or 12800 and 6400.
Depending on how your camera and sensor handles noise, this may be more or less meaningful to you.
Wider lens. People closer to the camera, building filling the frame in the background. A 35mm with your group together in the middle of the frame should do if you have enough room to back up for the three story. Otherwise you need something wider.
If you want both the building and your team sharp you may need two shots. One with the building in focus. The other with your team in focus. Then do a depth composite in post.
Unless you want to show the people regular size, as in to scale with the building. Then they need to be closer to the building and farther from your camera.