Going Manual

I am loving my new Canon EOS Rebel T2i SLR camera. Thanks to my wonderful husband for the early birthday present!

This past weekend I took a camera class with Treva and Bob from Treva Tribit Photography. I learned a great amount of helpful information on how to move from "Auto" to "Manual." It's going to take some time to get it down, but I feel like I am off to a good start.

Here's a shot of a friends' camera as we sat in class taking notes and asking lots of questions. And drinking Dr. Pepper, of course. I liked Treva from the start but I knew I really liked my fellow Texan when I saw she had Dr. Pepper as a beverage option!

Here is our class outdoors learning about how to shoot with various lighting.

After our day was done I spent an hour in charming dowtown McKinney to put my newly learned skills to the test. Most of it is still life as I tried not to photograph people in an effort to not creep anyone out or post strangers on the blog. All of these were taken in Manual mode.