Fireworks at 6pm - canon 350d - real newbie help!

Mattw · 4 Nov 2006 at 16:21

Hi, i bought my first slr on thursday, a canon 350d and havnt had time to play with it properly.

Theres some fireworks locally at 6pm tonight, and i was wondering how best to shoot. from what i have read i need an iso speed of 100, a f of 5.8 and a shutter time of 3-6 seconds depending on firework.

Now i understand that, but how on earth do i set that up on my canon 350d, for example which mode does it need to be on then how do i set that up and save it, so later when i turn camera on its defaulted to that?

Any advice on setting the 350d up will be much appreciated!

Mattw · 4 Nov 2006 at 16:31

yes i did search but if you read my question correctly, in summary is how do i use these settings on a 350d or how do i set them

Mattw · 4 Nov 2006 at 16:37

no i understand everything in those threads, i just dont know how i set the camera up, or where in the menus i do it

Mattw · 4 Nov 2006 at 16:48

ok thats more helpful thankyou. so when i change the shutter speed what does 200 awb mean?

and when someone says set it to 7 f what does that mean

Mattw · 4 Nov 2006 at 17:23

ok now i understand it better, thanks just being playing with the settings and got it nailed now.

yes i have a tripod

Mattw · 5 Nov 2006 at 10:24

well i did quite well, got some nice shots thanks for the help guys.

I bought idiots guide to photography for 26p off a popular book website which should be here tomorrow.

Instead of starting a new thread, can someone answer me this.

The 3 main settings that are used in manual mode seem to be iso, exposure and F. but what do these actually mean, i understand exposure time, but on the 350d you can have like 2" which i understand to be 2 seconds, but what is 300, 600, 2000 etc etc?

and what does AWB mean under this number on the LCD display? i think its auto white balance as a guess.

any books anyone would recommend me reading to stop filling this forum with newbie questions?

Mattw · 6 Nov 2006 at 12:39

My first shots

Well i never got a tripod because my friend forgot to bring it, so i did the best i could. These are my first shots ever with a DSLR, so please go easy

Mattw · 6 Nov 2006 at 12:54

Im on 56k unfortunatly, 100 metres down the road they can get broadband but for me it jsut wont work. So Gif's save me about an hour of time uploading lol

Thanks guys!